Bill Roggio, who’s back from Iraq, has a good roundup of the state of Jihad in the world at the beginning of 2007.
Happy New Year
We were cleaning up the house and having a party last night, and today we drove over to the Gulf Coast, and had a sunset dinner on Captiva Island. We just got back. Serious blogging will likely not commence until Tuesday, but as for tomorrow, Go Blue!
Sic Semper Tyrannis
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:
Slow But Deadly
Here’s a warm and bubbly Christmas story about a flatulent turtle. That would be a great band name.
Walking Through The Minefield
David Brin has a long, but useful essay on the future of technology and humanity. I may have some thoughts later.
Back To The Future
Clark Lindsey writes about NASA’s great leap backwards.
Clueless In The Newsrooms
Josh Trevino has the latest on the newest front on the war against Islamism, in Somalia, and on the media’s nonreporting and misreporting of it.
(I expect Anonymous “Chickenhawk” Moron in comments will now demand that I, and Josh, go to Mogadishu, since we’re not allowed to inform our readership or express an opinion without being on the scene.)
Is There An MT Doctor In The House?
I just tried to do an upgrade from 2.661 to 3.333 (or whatever the latest version is), and I got the following error:
Error during upgrade: failed to execute statement create table mt_log ( log_id integer not null primary key auto_increment, log_author_id integer default 0, log_blog_id integer default 0, log_category varchar(255), log_class varchar(255) default ‘system’, log_ip varchar(16), log_level integer default 1, log_message varchar(255), log_metadata varchar(255), log_created_on datetime, log_created_by integer, log_modified_on timestamp not null, log_modified_by integer ): Table ‘mt_log’ already exists at /usr/home/simberg/domains/transterrestrial.com/lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 1190.
Anyone know what the problem is, and how to fix?
(Good thing I backed up my installation and database…)
MT Bleg
I’m (finally) upgrading from MT 2.661 to 3.3. In the manual, it says to be sure that no one is using the software during the upgrade process.
How do I do that? What if someone comments while the upgrade occurs?
What The Troops Think Of John Kerry
Eating alone, in Iraq. Guess those troops aren’t as dumb as the senator thinks they are.
[Update at 10 AM EST]
Here’s more. You do have to give him some credit for being a good sport, though:
Before taking off, supposedly the helicopter pilot jumped out of the front seat while the rotor was turning (an extremely rare event), approached the rear of the bird, and asked Senator Kerry to autograph a copy of the photograph below.
To his everlasting credit, Senator Kerry was a good sport and actually signed it!!!
[Update on January 5th, 2007]
This story seems to have been debunked.