2004 June
From the June 23rd program of Larry King Live:
KING: Do you have thoughts on the war?
REAGAN: Sure, I have thoughts on the war.
KING: And what do you think?
REAGAN: And I think we lied our way into the war.
KING: You think it’s a mistake?
REAGAN: Absolutely, a terrible mistake. Terrible foreign policy error. We didn’t have to do it. It was optional. And we were lied to. The American public was lied to about WMD, the connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam, which is virtually nonexistent except for fleeting contacts. But they’re still trying to pull that one off now, Cheney and all are out there flogging that.
KING: Can I gather from that, that you will not support this president?
REAGAN: No, I won’t.
KING: Will you support his opponent?
REAGAN: I will vote for whoever the viable candidate is who can defeat George W. Bush, yes.
A powerful statement from the son of arguably the most legendary Republican president.
I previously used pingToRebuild.cgi to rebuild my blog whenever I posted an elsewhere link to the site. This worked great with Movable Type 2.6, but it appears that the script does not work with MT 3.0. I’m not sure if it’s my configuration or the script, but I simply can’t get it to work. Does anybody else have a solution for rebuilding a blog that uses the GlobalListings plug-in to display entries from two different blogs on one page? I can’t simply use PHP includes because the entries are displayed inline.
I’m considering using a cron job to rebuild the front page periodically, say every couple of hours. However, this would unnecessarily tax the server since I don’t post that often.
I started work at the Buck Institute yesterday, and so far it has been great. I’m working in the Lisa Ellerby Lab studying Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA). The facilities are truly excellent, sporting three floors of research labs and a proteomics core. Everyone I have met so far has been really nice — this summer is shaping up to be a lot of fun.
The other plus is the commute, which is very short from Mill Valley. In the morning, traffic is sluggish going South on the 101, but luckily the institute is North of my house, so I don’t have to fight traffic. This cuts my commute time down from what would be at least an hour to fifteen minutes both ways.
Doug Bowman launched his complete redesign of Stopdesign yesterday and it looks absolutely fantastic. In this revision, he has scaled down his blog on the front page, incorporating it into a three column layout. The blog is now only 200px wide or so. He has also divided up the site navigation into two navbars: one at the top with all of his commercial services and one below the logo with his free content. The logo on the front page is taller than any other pages for emphasis, which I think looks nice and works well. Each free content section has its own color scheme, which has been redesigned from scratch. All of the schemes look great and are easy to read. At the moment he is still getting some of the bugs worked out, but so far the redesign looks superb.