Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

chronicling life in a digital world

Commission to Consider Reining in Gay Pride - From TBO.Com

from TBO.comWhere is it that I live again? What the F*Ck are these people doing wasting OUR money on this subject? Fix a frickin’ road, clean up the water, and figure out how to pay our teachers more, when you’ve got all those things taken care, I’ll find more, save your fucking morality policing for your own fat asses.

Commission To Consider Reining In Gay Pride - from TBO.com was published on Monday, June 13, 2005 at 9:50pm and tagged Politics, rants, local and Tampa. There is currently one comment to this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

That Exotic, Deceptive London Smog - New York Times

New York Times
In this cultural wasteland of Outback Steakhouses and strip malls, the “major” museums only seem to make the papers when a city spends millions for an artists rendering and design, only to be scraped. Leave it to an exhibit put together by the curator of the St. Petersburg Mueseum of Fine Art to find its way into the New York Times, of all places. Is it not enough that our local musicians have to move there to get any notice, now our museum exhibits too?

That Exotic, Deceptive London Smog - New York Times was published on Friday, May 27, 2005 at 9:21am and tagged art, rants, local and Tampa. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Bang! Bang! I’m Afraid

Do your own search on this one, but the chubby little bro’ of the prez signed this one into law today. If you are in FLA citizen and scared for your life, you can do what ever you want with your assailant.
Just think if you are a Vice Principal with an unruly kindergardener.

Bang! Bang! I'm afraid was published on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 10:35pm and tagged Politics, rants, local and Bush. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Bill Allowing People to “Meet Force With Force” Passes House

from TBO.comGreat. Give a knucklehead a reason to kick another knucklehead’s ass at the next soccer/tball game.

Why do I live in this state again?

Bill Allowing People To ``Meet Force With Force'' Passes House was published on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 3:12pm and tagged Politics and local. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

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Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

Watching my cousin get married over the web. Ain't technology grand.

Side Notes

I’m always on the prowl for cheap (read FREE) iPhone apps, and finding a simple source for such is no easy task, at least in my searches. Unfortunately, all the sites I’ve found that cover this type of information are so full of ads and poorly designed, it’s impossible to actually find anything useful. I have however recently discovered at dealmac.com a RSS feed specifically for discounted iPhone/iPod Touch apps.. I can’t say that I’ve actually found any great deals yet through it, (I haven’t had a chance to play the recent “Let’s Golf!” game posted today), but it’s a start. And don’t get me wrong, I have no problem paying for a quality app, and do so with perhaps too regular of frequency, but still like finding a deal when I can, especially on games, which I know I’ll only play a few times, or very rarely.
Do you have any sites or feeds that you’d care to share? Tips on finding apps on sale?
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I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon by a comment left here on the site that my first Habari theme, Mzingi, had been ported to another CMS, WolfCMS. Though I’ve since passed Mzingi off to the official Habari project, and is now owned by the community and part of the official download, it’s a bit rewarding to see it deemed worthy of porting. You can see a demo of it in action as a WolfCMS theme.
It’s also nice they gave attribution on the official site. I’d not heard of the project before, seems like a young project that is a fork of another CMS project, but their site describes the project as something akin to Habari.
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It’s always great to see new themes released for Habari, even if they are ports. Florian has ported the WordPress theme Clean Home to Habari. The theme’s name aptly describes the design, a clean, black and white two column design with contrasting red headings. The theme seems to be coded for trunk, that is, using the areas feature. One thing I noticed is that the theme still has some cruft from WP, calling for a dynamic sidebar (widgets) with some text that also references a text widget and and admin options. I of all people can understand though of wanting to get something out before working out all the kinks, so I’m sure he’ll update it as soon as the areas/blocks feature is fleshed out a bit more. I also don’t speak German, so it’s quite possible he references that in the post announcing the release.
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You’d think “Canada’s best magazine”, The Walrus would at least link back to my bookmarks if they are going to use my graphics in their post about Infinite Summer. Heck, they didn’t even change the name of the image from the 5x bookmark file. Real professional Nav, real professional…
At least they didn’t just hotlink to the image in my post.
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I’ve recently been using Safari 4 beta, mostly because I had been too lazy to get more RAM, and Firefox was just too damn slow with all the apps I’d have open on only 1 gig. Now that I’m at 4 gigs, I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox, especially with the comments I’ve been reading about the speed improvements of the next version (3.5??). Another reason I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox is that Firebug is just far superior to Safari’s built in inspector. To that end, I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firebug.
The first, Firefinder, is a handy tool to “find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression”.
The second is one that Google previously used internally. Today they open sourced it and released, Page Speed. Page Speed allows developers to “evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.”
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Theme Development

I have moved all of my theme development to Beanstalk. If you would like to check out the full svn repository, you can checkout from http://blogworks.svn.beanstalkapp.com/themes.