chris' random ramblings

I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 yesterday. Everything seems to have gone well, except I forgot to re-generate my .htaccess file, which caused all the permalinks on the site to fail, as well as the RSS feed to fail.

I’ve also stopped showing Google ads on my site. I did this because somehow ads for abortion clinics kept popping up. Google doesn’t give you that much control over what kind of advertisements are shown, and since I’m not at all comfortable with these kinds of ads, I’ve pulled them for now. For those “in the know”, this has nothing to do with recent events

Thanks to Fr. Z, I just found out that Cardinal Newman is going to be beatified this year!

This is fantastic news! Cardinal Newman is one of the most famous 19th century converts to Catholicism and has had enormous influence on the English speaking Catholic world.

Microsoft is abandoning their “PlaysForSure” DRM format. Too bad for those people who trusted that they really could for sure play music they bought. The next time they need to (not if they need to) reinstall Windows they won’t be able to listen to their music!

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080422/234401923.shtml

Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act is slowly making its way though the House of Commons. This is a very important bill, as it would create an additional criminal offence for somebody who attacks a pregnant woman and causes the death of the unborn child she carries.

You can see how your MP voted in the second reading of this bill on March 5th here. If your MP didn’t vote in favour of the bill, please write to him/her! If they did vote in favour of the bill, write to them anyway to thank them for their support.

You can get the contact information for your MP here. Written letters are best, but e-mails work too.

In zsh:


alias ':q'=exit


I can’t count the number of times I’ve typed ‘:q’ by mistake in a shell expecting it to quit.

Now it will