Here comes a stupid judge with a stupid remark: Mrs. Khoder, a United States citizen who arrived from Lebanon 14 years ago, appeared in court last Thursday before the judge, William R. Crosbie, to challenge two parking tickets left on her dashboard within an hour of each other. She said the judge repeated her name… Continue reading Are You a Terrorist?
Month: May 2003
Camping
We are going camping in Maine over the weekend. We seem to have the worst luck with camping. Almost every time we go, it rains. It seems this would be no exception. I should probably buy some rain gear before going. I bought a nice small backpacking stove recently. It is a Primus Yellowstone Lite.… Continue reading Camping
MT Plugins
I have installed two Movable Type plugins. Smarty Pants shows curly quotes (“”), en-dashes (—), em dashes (—-) and ellipsis (…) to appear correctly. Textile makes text formatting much easier and also creates ™, ©, ® and the proper times symbol in 3×3. If you see any problems on how the blog looks on your… Continue reading MT Plugins
Treatment of Minorities
An interesting discussion has been going on about the historical treatment of religious minorities by Muslims and Christians in the blogworld. As usual, the discussion covers dhimmis (is dhimmitude a word?) and the Inquisition. It revolves around the Middle East and Europe (as is common for discussions about Islam; somehow Africa or Asia are rarely… Continue reading Treatment of Minorities
Protestors are Terrorists
Via Unqualified Offerings, here’s the strange case of the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC). CATIC spokesman Mike Van Winkle said such evidence wasn’t needed to issue warnings on war protesters. “You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that’s being fought… Continue reading Protestors are Terrorists
Whitewater
Summer is here and it’s time for whitewater rafting again. This is from the Ocoee river in Tennessee last year.
Importing Comments
Checking Haloscan forums, I have found out that exporting comments from there is not possible (other than manually saving each comment, something only Jonathan has the patience for). However, according to them, This is currently impossible. It willl likely be coded in about a month from now but for now, exporting can’t be done. So,… Continue reading Importing Comments
New Home
There will be no more postings on my Blogger-based weblog (http://zackandamber.blogspot.com). Please change your links and bookmarks to my Movable Type weblog at http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/.
The Matrix: Reloaded
Wow! The Matrix: Reloaded made $91 million this weekend. Add to that the $42m on thursday and it has already made $134m. I haven’t seen it yet. My roommate and I were planning on going saturday, but when we checked online the midnight show was already sold out. So we played Hearts of Iron instead.… Continue reading The Matrix: Reloaded
Pitch for Money
Since I have moved into new digs which cost money, I think I should make a pitch for donations. If you like my weblog, please consider donating. Any amount is well-appreciated. The links for Paypal and Amazon Honor system are on the sidebar. If you would like another option, please drop me an email. A… Continue reading Pitch for Money