Election 2010 is one of the most exciting mid-terms I’ve been through, and the one I want finished more than any other in the past. That the election has been ugly is the mother of all understatements. Add to this the anxiousness of seeing people I would expect to find living behind barbed wire with […]
Proposition B is about dogs, nothing more, nothing less. Though Proposition B has been covered on hundreds of sites and in countless discussions—on TV and radio, in print, and in person—the Columbia Missourian, a student run publication managed by the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, has remained the ground zero of all […]
I made my first attempt to use the new Drupal 7 beta to upgrade my existing module experiment site. Unfortunately, I quickly ran into a fatal error: DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table cache_path already exists. in DatabaseSchema->createTable() (line 621 of /home/myname/public_html/books/includes/database/schema.inc). I submitted a bug for the error at the time it happened. Checking back later, though, I couldn’t […]
In my earlier writing, I suggested that after October 1st, people with comments should send emails to the public-html-comment email list, as I thought this would be where Last Call comments would be addressed. Evidently, I was incorrect. According to a clarification I received, all comments should be submitted to the Bugzilla database. In addition, any […]
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Don’t touch that tweet
As many people are discovering, Twitter has been compromised, and badly. It would seem, from what I can piece together from the web sites discussing the problem, the new Twitter interface doesn’t bother to do a little thing called escaping the input so that JavaScript can’t be inserted into Twitter messages. Messages have then been posted […]