Monthly Archive for November 2006

Blogging Update

New plug-in, called Post Teaser, by Jonathan Leighton.

Post Teaser generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time.

I took out the read [...]

The opinions that pundits and politicians alike are voicing about Iraq these days concern me. Security and democracy are not mutually exclusive goals.

UPDATE: From the D&C comment thread –
As a funeral director, I can say this is a fabrication. I have been to airports many times picking up remains and I know how this procedure works. Caskets are shipped in airtrays (with a plywood bottom and cardboard box). One would never see an exposed casket. They [...]

Mourning Our Heroes

Kim Priestap, a member of the Wizbang gang, has lost a family member in Iraq.

Why doesn’t someone write a spam filter that recognizes that the e-mail is written in non-western characters, like Russian?

Scared and Concerned

I’m sitting here, as scared and concerned as I have been in a very long time.

I went to the doctor’s this morning to find out why my back, left thoracic, was spasming so badly so often. I’m put it off for nearly a year but the lovely wife insisted.

Exam, sent for x-rays.

X-rays came back.

Multi level [...]

Shannon Fretter

Don’t let the blond hair, blue eyes and dazzling white smile fool you. Corporal Shannon Fretter of Springhill, N.S. is as hardcore as any grizzled fighting man in the Canadian Forces.

In September, NATO and the ISAF launched a campaign to remove the Taliban from Panjwayi and Zhari districts, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. You never heard about it.

Texans talk funny, but not in the way you think.