{"id":6046,"date":"2011-10-06T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2011-10-06T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:05:45","slug":"open-thread1062011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/open-thread1062011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/6\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went bug hunting.  While sleuthing the mystery of the missing smileys, I decided to look at other themes as well.  I stripped the blog down to a bare bones installation and reinstalled plugins one at a time.  I opted not to reinstall wp-social blogroll, because reloading its info every time any page is refreshed was cumbersome.  I opted not to reinstall sendlove.to, because nobody was using it.  I tried to reinstall the old smiley toolbar, but it still does not work with our graphical comment editor.  I tested several different themes, but none met my needs like Suffusion, so I reinstalled and reconfigured that.   After all that, smileys still did not work, so I dug deeper and found that one of the smiley toolbars, that I had tested had tested, corrupted the smiley source graphics on the server.  I replaced them and smileys are back.  \ud83d\ude42 I missed sleep.  I got nothing else done.  I\u2019m current on replies.  Today I gave three days of tasks to do.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 4:39 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Wired<\/a>: <\/font>Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., passed away Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A visionary inventor and entrepreneur, it would be impossible to overstate Steve Jobs\u2019 impact on technology and how we use it. Apple\u2019s mercurial, mysterious leader did more than reshape his entire industry: he completely changed how we interact with technology. He made gadgets easy to use, gorgeous to behold and essential to own. He made things we absolutely wanted, long before we even knew we wanted them. Jobs\u2019 utter dedication to how people think, touch, feel and interact with machines dictated even the smallest detail of the computers Apple built and the software it wrote. <\/p>\n

He did help change the face of computing.  Condolences to those who loved him.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>L<\/font>abor unions including nurses, and transit workers were set to join the growing anti-Wall Street movement march on Wednesday through New York’s financial district, and some college students walked out of classes in solidarity.<\/p>\n

Sadly. I have heard reports of violence, but nothing definitive as yet.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A House committee vote Wednesday set in motion the final act of the long drama of approving free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.<\/p>\n

The Ways and Means Committee votes for the three agreements set the stage for full House approval next week and Senate votes in the near future.<\/p>\n

See today\u2019s cartoon.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"6Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went bug hunting.  While sleuthing the mystery of the missing smileys, I decided to look at other themes as well.  I stripped the blog down to a bare bones installation and reinstalled plugins one at a time.  I opted not to reinstall wp-social blogroll, because reloading its info every time any page is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-31-id","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}