Clayton took down Red State Friday night in order to make the move from Scoop to the customized Drupal version by Monday morning. He’s moving over the database and presumably making all the old URLs work too. He’s looking at probably hundreds of users, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of comments to port from one database to the other in about 48 hours.
Gee, and it took Rob and I HOW long to move SA from Rob’s code to mine?
Looks like the Olympic bronze has reawakened USA Basketball after all. Jerry Colangelo has done his job well, even if he’d say his job isn’t done until after Berlin, er, Peking.
“One World, One Dream,” one China? Bah.
Cheers to the NBA Board of Governors for fixing up some rules:
- The three division winners in each conference, plus the best record among the rest of the teams, will be seeded by record. That way there’s no more incentive to lose like the Clippers did. Some people publicly keep talking about Mavericks/Spurs, but the incentive to lose for home court advantage has to be the primary concern here, because it threatened the integrity of the game.
- Playoff rosters will now be as large as regular season rosters, as well as working the same way as in the regular season. I like this change; limiting the playoff rosters as has been done in the past only served to increase the luck factor of playoff injuries.
- In the last two minutes of regulation or in overtime, if you’re down to two full timeouts, one of them becomes a 20. You can no longer take a 20 into overtime. In overtime you only get two full timeouts and a 20 instead of three full timeouts. The goal here is to speed up the ends of games and I guess that’s good; full timeouts feel like they take FOREVER during the ends of close games, especially if teams go back and forth using their last timeouts, such as before Derek Fisher’s 0.4 second shot.
Well I ended up playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones next. It’d actually been given to me as a gift a while back, and set aside when I couldn’t get past the second map.
Turned out I was treating my strongest character for that map as my weakest. Realizing that got me a while through. Still a very tough game on the toughest setting, though. Of course I reset if anyone gets killed…
All in all, it seems so far to be like Final Fantasy Tactics, only good.
From Article 1, Section 10 of the US Constitution:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress,…enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power,….
Someone should refresh the Governor’s memory from his citizenship classes, judging by this Associated Press article today:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plan to lay the groundwork for a new trans-Atlantic market in carbon dioxide emissions. Such a move could help California cut carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases scientists blame for warming the planet. President Bush has rejected the idea of ordering such cuts.
At the very least, given the Senate’s express rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the Governor is cutting it very close to terminating the Constitutional limits on his power with this bit of election year leftist activism. This activism by the way which doesn’t sound promising for the California economy:
A main target of the agreement between Britain and California is carbon from cars, trucks and other modes of transportation. Transportation accounts for an estimated 41 percent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions and 28 percent of Britain’s.
Mr. Schwarzenegger has called on California to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2010. California was the 12th largest source of greenhouse gases in the world last year, bigger than most nations.
What does Phil Angelides think, I wonder? Oh, and oops: there’s that word agreement again.
Greg Maddux is a Dodger for the cost of Cesar Izturis. Will that be enough? Will the team regret ‘upgrading’ with Furcal at short? My guesses: No and yes.
Now that DG is back in action again, ToME is progressing nicely again.
I hope he takes my plot ideas and uses them. I mean, the item list isn’t quite going the way I hoped, though I to intend to finish the work I’ve started on the ToME 3 item list, but still: the more ToME 3 is like the game I’d write if I wrote it myself, the less I’ll have the urge to go write a new game in this style.
I hope Israel kills every member of that pack of animals.
Another new release today. I had to pull the Console though, because it’s a bit crashy. This annoyance is the first time I’ve been unhappy with Cocoa. It’s just a huge hassle to fork, capture stdout and stderr into pipes, and exec.
But it’s still a nice new release, especially if you like high resolutions.
The House is making it very hard for me to give the Republican party until 2008 to get its act together.