• The Never-Ending Bloga

    Helpless Flailing On The Horizon

    It’s coming: MT3.1.whatever we’re up to now. David will act as in-house geek as usual. So I’m gathering links, because of course successfully installing the upgrade (after suitable backups) is only the beginning. Then it’ll be the endless tweaking of the style sheets, with probably some major overhaulage in the look of things. And that’s… ok. Upgrading MT Learning Movable Type: Colors – Background, Banner, Headline, and Font Ibid: Background Patterns Ibid: Backing Up Your Blog Ibid: Using Typekey Styles with MT Ibid: Setting Up Typekey Authentication Visibone: Color Lab (pick colors AND see if they play well together MovableStyle.comStyleMonkey…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Birth Control Rule For Illinois Pharmacies

    While reading the excellent journal of ginmar, I ran across this item: CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug. … The Chicago pharmacist was not the first to attract attention for refusing to fill a birth control prescription. In February, a judge recommended that a Roman Catholic pharmacist in Wisconsin be reprimanded and required to attend ethics classes after the pharmacist blocked a woman’s attempt to fill a prescription for birth…

  • Food, Glorious Food

    Melts In Your Mouth, Not In Your Pounder

    Yeah, so I don’t have a “Beerhunter” category, and besides the kind of beer we like to bring home is pretty sustaining stuff, if not actually chewy. Tonight’s tipple of choice is a new favorite: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. We found it a couple of weeks ago at the local Binny’s and picked it up on a whim – turns out to be one of our better impulse buys, because at the same time we bought other Young’s products: Waggledance and Oatmeal Stout. From this experience we’ve added a new favorite brewer: Young’s makes good stuff, Maynard. The unique thing…

  • Funnies

    The Super-Fantastic Anti-Poncho

    I just bought this and now I must wait several days for the arrival. You must visit Manolo’s Shoe Blog to understand the super-fantastic fashion item that I await. Also it is the WordPress blog that Manolo is now writing and not Blogger so very much “kudos to Manolo” for making the fashion-forward leap of Internet savvy. You can find it and much more of great style and humor at Manolo Loves the Shoes! : CafePress.com and of course you must find the original love of the Manolo in the things he says of those things that are of the…

  • Funnies

    Pledge Time

    Local NPR station WBEZ is having a spring pledge drive today, which is apparently no joke. Local “listener supported” rock station WXRT is also having a pledge drive. XRT’s pledge drive is definitely more entertaining, but I do hope that BEZ’s is successful. 😉