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.)
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…)
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?
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.
On the second anniversary of the tsunami in south Asia, they get another scare.
I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.
Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”
I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.
Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”
I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.
Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”
Amir Tehari writes about the boom outside Baghdad:
Newsweek has just hailed the emergence of a booming market economy in Iraq as “the mother of all surprises,” noting that “Iraqis are more optimistic about the future than most Americans are.” The reason, of course, is that Iraqis know what is going on in their country while Americans are fed a diet of exclusively negative reporting from Iraq.
Of course, it would have been better if he’s written “almost exclusively negative,” given that he was citing a positive Newsweek story as evidence.
And also of course, expect my anonymous and cowardly moronic leftist troll to show up in a minute or two with the daily “chickenhawk” stupidity, and demands that I go to Iraq.
Lawrence Altman describes the tremendous advances in medicine that we’ve made in the last half century:
Few people appreciate that medicine has advanced more since World War II than in all of earlier history. Newer drugs and de-vices and better understanding of disease mechanisms have vastly improved the care of patients. For male babies born in this country in 1960, the life expectancy was 66.6 years; for female babies, it was 73.1 years. In 2004, the figures, respectively, were 75.2 and 80.4. Medical advances account for much, though not all, of the gain.
My father had his first coronary in 1968, at the age of 45. He had a second one a little over ten years later, and died at age 55. I’m now several years past the age at which he had his first, and approaching the point at which I’ll live longer than he did, partly due to massive changes in lifestyle (he smoked and was overweight, and grew up on a typical Jewish diet of that era), but also because we can now monitor such things, and keep control of blood pressure and cholesterol, and if I do have a coronary event, I’ll have a much better chance of rapid and useful care than he did in either case. I continue to hope that I’ll live to see actuarial escape velocity.
Even more interestingly (at least to me), he also writes about the hubris and unjustified arrogance of the medical profession:
During my training, most professors said that all diseases were known. That hubris left doctors unprepared when AIDS came along in 1981 to cause one of history