Daily Archives: November 14th, 2009 «

 

Tech notes, Ajax Edit Comments edition

Posted by: steveegg on November 14, 2009 at 6:19 pm » 4 Comments

This is your friendly neighborhood tech guy popping in for just a moment. Something changed in the comment loop between WordPress 2.8.5 and WordPress 2.8.6 to cause the “icon” version of Ajax Edit Comments to go outside the comment box. What it is, I don’t know because the HTML source is unchanged, and a similar [...]

 

NOTP

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2009 at 12:17 pm » Comments Off

William Jefferson sentenced to 13 years in prison

 

AP

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm » Comments Off

Chinese greet ‘Oba Mao’ with flaming statue, fakes

 

Politico

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2009 at 12:13 pm » Comments Off

Hutchison won’t resign Senate seat

 

AP assigns 11 “factcheckers” to Sarah Palin’s book – and they still get it wrong

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2009 at 11:53 am » 15 Comments

Priceless!! Mark Steyn, in a must-read, laughingly calls them the “Rogue Eleven”: AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report. Wow. That’s ten “AP writers” plus Calvin Woodward, the AP writer whose twinkling pen [...]

 

I guess this wasn’t really a “bow” either, eh, Mr. President?

Posted by: ST on November 14, 2009 at 10:37 am » 30 Comments

Sheesh (via Jim Hoft): How low will the new American president go for the world’s royalty? This photo will get Democrat President Obama a lot of approving nods in Japan this weekend, especially among the older generation of Japanese who still pay attention to the royal family living in its downtown castle. Very low bows [...]