http://blog.donnael.com Random thoughts and links Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, not exactly, but some Googling led me to these posts, which show how to put it together yourself using the Visual Studio Shell. Which reminds me, Craig Boyd and Bo Durban are still working on VFPStudio. Wish I could get to SWFox for the presentation Craig is giving... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/08/visual-f-express/ You can probably guess why I'm linking to this. :-) http://blog.donnael.com/2008/08/mercedes-guardian-video/ After over a year's hiatus, Chapter 7 of Diane Duane's self-published-over-the-net novel, The Big Meow, has finally been released to subscribers! Check out the first six chapters, posted for free, and hopefully, you'll decide to become a subscriber. After the year that Diane has apparently had (multiple family losses, multiple ... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/07/the-big-meow-returns/ No contest. http://blog.donnael.com/2008/07/best-first-dance-ever/ Slashdot pointed out today that AVG is scanning every link on every page you go to to "protect" you against malware. Not cool for webmasters who might have to pay extra for the bandwidth. To turn it off, follow the instructions in the AVG FAQ, which are pointed to on ... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/07/avg-safescan/ Methinks Netflix needs to work on their recommendation algorithms a bit more. http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/department-of-redundancy-department/ What the frickin' hell does Hoyer think he's doing? [A] civil action may not lie or be maintained in a Federal or State court against any person for providing assistance to an element of the intelligence community, and shall be properly dismissed, if the Attorney General certifies to the district court ... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/im-so-angry-i-almost-cant-see-straight/ No, rights for everyone under the jurisdiction of our country. Why shouldn’t we allow Government, from time to time, to act outside of the Constitution? There are those who will point out that we are in dangerous times, and that it is sometimes necessary for the Government to take exceptional measures ... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/rights-for-terrorists/ In my latest crosspost in the series on Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, one of the commenters linked to this editorial. Editorialists, while refusing to honestly report on this Constitutional crisis, have been parroting the claim of gutless and calculating Democratic Party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in saying that with ... http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/why-its-not-too-late-to-impeach/ The Obama campaign has a website called FightTheSmears.com, on which they give the truth about various smears that have been going around. The lead story currently is the non-existent "whitey" tape. http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/fight-the-smears/