If you have multiple WordPress blogs, it quickly becomes a royal pain in the ass to update your blog software. Enter, the automatic updater : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
Why, oh why, isn’t this included in WordPress, is beyond me. A few simple clicks are you are running the latest version of WordPress, for better or worse.
I really don’t understand the huge urgency behind bailing out Wall Street. These “Toxic” loans have been on the books for years now. The whole ‘crisis’ has been brewing for 30 years now. 70’s inflation busting, 80’s S&L debacle, the 90’s stock and Internet bubble, the 00’s housing and credit bubble. One bubble after the next, with no popping. It all boils down to the fact we need to start making things in this country instead of moving paper, flipping burgers, offering credit, and suing each other. That crisis can’t be fixed in 7 stinking days by the people who helped create this problem in the first place. We need a correction, not a bailout.
Took some ‘arty’ photos yesterday and today. Here are a few to look at:
A very rusted bike. In the full shot, you can see how it has left rust stains on the concrete!
I really hope no one is riding this scary beast. The chains/cables are the least rusted things here.
Just a sunflower.
I also tried some black and white photos. This was done on the camera to make sure the shots worked ok. Photographing in color and changing to black and white may of worked, but it is a lot easier this way.
A lone light pole against a scary looking sky. I didn’t expect this shot to work so well. The photo you see is not cropped, just resized for uploading.
Just a weed in from of some railroad tracks.
Finally, some perspective:
I read an interesting opinion in the Tribune today, it said we are having September 11th weather. Other than the horrible events, the weather that week was just wonderful, just like this week. Only this time, we have the stock market tanking and goodness knows how many banks are going to fail. So, just take a walk and enjoy the weather. We will make it through.
Just wanted to acknowledge it has really been seven years since the destruction of the Twin Towers and the damage to the Pentagon (and the loss of the brave people in Pennsylvania). I am shocked how few flags are flying. How soon we forget. We still haven’t caught Osama Bin Laden, we are still in Afghanistan, still in Iraq (which has nothing to do with it), and still bowing to unconstitutional laws.
I just wish our government would stop hunting bogey men and trying to scare us and fix our schools and roads instead. It’ simple. Secure our borders properly, listen to people WHEN THEY CALL THE FBI TO TELL THEM THERE ARE TERRORISTS IN THEIR FLIGHT SCHOOLS and quit pissing off the rest of the world with stupid policies and illegal invasions. You really want to make life better, get off the fossil fuel teat and become a world leader, for once. Spending a trillion dollars to blow up people who did nothing to us half a world away does not make our lives better. I am sure that trillion could of been used to fix our ‘health’ care system.
Meanwhile, life still goes on. In the last 7 years, I have gotten married, had a child, changed jobs, bought a new car, etc. Personally I am pretty happy. I am happy, but I am worried about the future of our country and how quickly we forget the mistakes made.
It be fitting that it is talk like a pirate day
Yarh, the scabberous dogs of our gover’ment have decided to give our booty away to the most treacherous pirates of all, Wall street.
Aye, we hard working pirates have to pay tribute to those who take risks aplenty, yet get all the rewards.
Argh.
Posted by admin on September 19, 2008 in General Comments
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