Hail Breaks Loose

My Back Yard Last Night

So last night we had a horrendous hail storm. No roof damage, but both of our cars, which were in the driveway, look like Captain Caveman paid me a visit. Lessons learned: Finish cleaning garage Keep monitor plugged into battery backup with actual PC Hail hurts As you've noticed, this site is going through some [...]

WordPress Housekeeping

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Upon reflection and my thick-headed way I can't stop myself from tinkering, I decided to continue with wpremix. The support seems to be improving and they appear to be squashing bugs. I've added a few excellent plugins: Last.fm Sidebar Twitter Widget Pro Google Analytics for WordPress These are great plugins because they are simple and [...]

More Housekeeping

Continuing the theme of frustration for commercial software, the WordPress template, wpremix2 was supposed to work out of the box for what I wanted.  However, I didn't read carefully enough through the support forums to realize the developer had more than he could handle. So it's full of bugs and I don't have time to [...]

Yay! I'm Converted

While taking longer than I wanted, I finally settled on how the site will progress. I decided to move away from PostNuke/Zikula. I've had my hands in PN for many years doing everything from simple to complex sites. I liked where Zikula (the new generation of PN) was going, but it's just not there. Especially [...]

Fair Warning: Site Updates

This site is going through some major updates. Since this is not my livelihood, they will be slow and painful and dramatic at times.

New Blog

After a lot of soul-searching and trying to figure out what to do with certain stories, I decided that I would create a new blog specifically for Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking Watch is focused on human trafficking without all of the fat of this scatter-shot blog. The idea is that I want to do my [...]

Server Outage

I'm back up after an all night server outage. My server was hacked and I'm still trying to secure it so this won't happen again. I've literally been up all night. I'll be back later after some sleep.

Breaking: Explosions Near Downtown Dallas

A welding supply company near Dallas has had multiple explosions, causing gridlock on I-35. My first thought, naturally, is terrorism–knee jerk reaction really. However, gas tanks exploded where they are normally stored. I would think a terrorist would set off an explosion near a more populated place. There's just not enough information to go on [...]

The Future of Insurance

This is the future of insurance: In 2009, Clarian will begin charging workers up to $30 every two weeks for insurance if they let health risks such as smoking or high cholesterol go unchecked. Clarian is not the only employer to use money as a motivator for employees to shape up. More employers are zeroing [...]

Site Updates

I've re-enabled comments after activating my Akismet service. Let's see if that helps things a bit. In addition, I've been working on the CSS to address some issues that have been bothering me. As I get time, I'll be making asthetic changes here and there so bear with me.