Didn't get too much sleep last night; we're having a massive wind storm here right now. It's not so much that it was loud, it was that the constantly changing air pressure was giving me a pretty bad headache. My “BME command module” tool is coming along well. It can currently do all of the following (and I've tested all of this):
- update main index file
- re-upload latest cover files
- upload latest newsfeed
- add item to newsfeed
- edit newsfeed
- make a new front-page poll
- edit image galleries (move/del pix)
- add member to creation queue
- scan for problematic submissions
- process pending memberships
- upload anonymous email data file
- build search engine data and u/l
- add new cover files
Later today I'm going to do an experience update; I hope to do the entire update using the command tool (which means that from this point onward, that task won't need my involvement). It also serves as an operation manual, as on every step it both explains what it does as well as explaining how to perform the task manually.
Three quick news links (nothing much in the BME newsfeed, but thank you to the two people who have helped out so far — it's definitely appreciated):
- Pentagon adviser: France 'no longer ally' – The quotes from Perle are pretty kooky. The United states “must develop a strategy to contain [France]” and that France's attitude about Iraq is “dangerous”. “Iraq is going to be liberated, by the United States and whoever wants to join us, whether we get the approbation of the U.N. or any other institution.” — So basically, America will declare war on whoever it wants to, and if France wants to object to that war, it's going to be next? WTF?
- Bush promises $6.4 billion for nuclear weapons development – Because weapons of mass destruction are the tools of evil, America has decided it had better have as many as possible, and that its evil has the be the best evil money can buy.
- Picasso Under Wraps, UN Under the Thumb – A reproduction of Picasso's 'Guernica', one of the most well known anti-war paintings, hangs outside the UN Security Council. Like Ashcroft covered the statues of Justice for being obscene, Guernica has now been covered up as well — after all, anti-war politics are “offensive” to warmongering murderers, and they are now who rule this world.
Oh, and if you have a buddy who's on TOS suspension for making numerous homophobic comments including saying that anyone who “goes gay” deserves to be killed, posting a “free speech” rant isn't going to convince anyone. Again, no one's stopping you from saying it — we're just saying you can't say that in “our home”.
…And attaching it to a “corporate sellout” statement is just ludicrous. Since when has “the voice of the free” been the voice of bigotry? If anything, it's the other way around. Really, is it that hard just to be a decent person to the folks around you?
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