I’m still about 1% on the fence about getting this over a new iPhone. I dig Nokia but I don’t think I can get a good plan for it up here.

(via Engadget)

I did some automatic updates, trying to keep everything together and functional. And then things got all screwed up…my backend got all discombobulated and I couldn’t do anything. So I reloaded a lesser update from my control panel, which at least left everything accessible, but screwed up other stuff.

Then the “new and improved” version of my theme lost all of its customizability, and I wasn’t able to tweak my column widths to put things where I wanted them.

So here I am with a new theme, which I have not been able to make entirely how I want it, and apologies for the crowded look here and there, and if anyone can explain to me the mystery of why my twitter feed, whose code in the widget and in the style sheet seems exactly like my last.fm feed, is in UNCHANGEABLY ENORMOUS text, I’d appreciate it.

Perhaps I’ll figure out where to adjust the font colours for links etc. also, as that uniform grey is a little dull. And I would prefer the right column a little wider. And the little “site admin” link that used to appear on the page (just to me I suppose) when I was logged in was quite useful also.

But whatever.

It’s alive! and I will continue to frankenstein it until I get it where I want it.

the whole updating thing is sometimes beyond me, I admit.

I have to resize the bitch and see if I can make the sidebar come back.

Le sigh.

Who’s going to be the next poor fucker to get shot for (somehow, in a twisted, twisted mind) representing Evil Liberals to some hysterical fucking hyperconservative who simply can’t accept that the Republicans are no longer in control?

OK, I didn’t see it, but Letterman probably did cross the line. However, he apologized quite specifically for the fact that while he was joking about the elder daughter, someone might have inferred he meant the younger daughter:

“I would never, never make jokes about [sex with] a 14-year-old girl. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny.”

That, of course, was not good enough for the Palin Family Spokeswoman, whose poor choice of words I’ve  mentioned before. Not content with not accepting the apology, the Palins said this:

“It would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

Ugly little backhanded smear.  I guess it must be tiring when almost everyone on the planet thinks you’re a punch line.

GM continues its lurching advance to bankruptcy, and the President dared to take his wife out for a night on the town. In New York City.

New York City isn’t experiencing any economic trouble, of course. And the opening of a Broadway revival of an August Wilson play shouldn’t mean anything to a President. You know, August Wilson, that guy who won a couple of Pulitzers.

Listen, you idiots, when Obama decides to take a four-week “vacation” on his “ranch” instead of paying attention to what’s going on in the world, you may have a foot to stand on. Dinner and a show are a pretty normal, mainstream diversion, the kind that even poor people can achieve once in a while. Not that the Rebublicans know too much about what regular people do for entertainment.

Yay!

So kewt! v v shiny, also.

Added a GB of RAM on general principles. It’s the N280 processor.

Running UNR and really digging it. May hackint0sh also.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

The lovely and talented Woodrow Phoenix (can you call a guy lovely? well I think he is), a super-talented artist and writer (he created the very font in my very own header, even), has had a nice mention in the Times Online. Well, I thought, “It should be made mandatory reading for everyone, everywhere,” was a pretty nice mention.

W00t!