Dead Cant Rant

This site will not be updated for the foreseeable future. Comments are currently disabled. We definitely plan to return at some point in the future, perhaps in six months, but for now we are suspending work on this site. Thanks to all who have read and commented, both publicly via the site and privately via [...]

Just installed the del.icio.us direc.tor GreaseMonkey user script that completely alters the del.icio.us editor interface. Based on Johnvey’s original del.icio.us direc.tor bookmarklet. Johnvey described it as Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker. I call it beautifully elegant.

And if you haven’t installed GreaseMonkey, go get it.
What’s that you say? You don’t have Firefox? Shame on [...]

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Well, how could this ever have escaped our attention? Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! In celebration, we have installed Dougal Gunter’s Text Filter Suite Pirate plugin, instantly converting all text in all entries and comments to piratese. Enjoy it for the 5 1/2 hours remaining in the day!
(Who says conservatives can’t have [...]

Thanks to Dr. Dave, we are now a certified spam-free blog. I got tired of my own moderation methods, involving a custom PHP script that ruthlessly deleted every comment in the database matching a (continually growing) set of criteria. Anything written with a certain keyword — say, “internet pharmacy” — was purged, even if you [...]

After weeks of tinkering, we’re finally live with our new, improved “Blue” theme. This is largely just an enhancement on the old appearance, cleaning things up a bit, not a truly radical departure in terms of layout.
What I’ve done:

Upgraded to WordPress 1.5. The site design is now a theme and completely interchangeable with other themes. [...]

I know, blogging has been really light lately. Time is at a premium right now, and I’m also trying to both upgrade this site to WordPress 1.5 and redesign it at the same time.
Ouch.
Plus, Reneé and I are keeping ourselves busy. This past Sunday we went to the San Marcos air show specifically to check [...]