February 2012 Archive

Oh, and apparently this speech makes Rick Santorum “want to throw up.”

From CBS News:

Asked by the AP reporter if he follows NASCAR, Romney responded, “Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends …

The Economist’s View brought up the interesting point today that a lot of what drives Republican politics revolves more around emotion rather than science and education.  Furthermore, education seems …

I had a Django issue with django-tinymce throwing errors on the spell checker.  Digging through the traceback revealed this error:

RuntimeError: dictionary not found for language 'en'

That’s weird …

I want to serve two sub-domains from the same Django project—not unheard of, see the countless multi-lingual sites out there.  My goal, however, is specifically to share the whole project …

I run several web servers, mostly oriented toward serving Django applications, and have selected Gentoo as my Linux distribution of choice for secure, robust deployment. I’ve documented most of …

Blurting without censorship.

One time-wasting habit of mine I should really break is reading comment threads on political articles—especially articles dealing with the upcoming election.  The sheer mass of mindless …

This document describes how to share users created using Django’s auth system with other Django projects. It is not a hack; it simply makes use of the database router …

Substitute your hometown for Memphis and this song can be a real tearjerker.  Also, Adam Pascal has an incredible voice!

Two months ago, I put myself to the challenge of completing a 60-day period of enduring hell also known as the Beachbody Insanity program.  If you haven’t seen the …

Problem: You have a fixed position header (like the one on this page), and you find that using <a href="#othersection"> causes a portion of your document to be “hidden …

Maintaining two blogs has become impossible, so I’m consolidating my writing to this one.  I will migrate the most hit blogs and create redirects so bookmarks should be good …

A drilldown on hypocrisy.

Paul Krugman discusses a New York Times article that articulates the ratio of money states give and receive to and from the Federal government versus their …

In case you (hopefully) missed it, here are the real show-stoppers from Palin’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday:

“We are just dog-gone frustrated with …

After reading various opinion articles and comments therein, here is my perspective on this week’s controversy:

[Beginning of week]

OBAMA:  Institutions and corporations must follow the same rules regardless …

Randall who?

If you haven’t heard, there is a madman living in America who thinks it is appropriate to broadcast ads featuring aborted fetuses during the Super Bowl.  Apparently …

And I’m not the only one who thinks so.

It seems to me that many of the unfounded criticisms against President Obama stem from somewhere not entirely rational.  The …

I’ve heard the argument—on an uncomfortable number of occasions—that taxes can and should be raised since “most people get a refund anyway.”  What’s disconcerting about this statement is …