for prosperity sake, and because it breaks stuff on the site =(

thanks

If you’re a guest, go ahead and log in with guest/none to make a post.

Do you all think avatars are lame? I played with them a while back when i had xoops installed. My first reaction was that they are kinda silly. I mean, why would you want a picture of bart simpson or whatever next to everything you write?

While i used xoops i guess i accepted them, and it was funny to see what other users chose as their avatars.

now that i’m done with xoops, i think the site is a while lot cleaner without them.

QUESTION: do you think avatars add to the discourse, or are they just lame?

I’ve activated most of your accounts, so you should be able to request the site to email your password to you know. username @ intensivepurposes.com is the address to use.

I’ve re-implemented the comment hide and show feature that we all know and love.

Sorry you all lost your comments for the last few days… i had to hand convert the bunch of posts, since they weren’t in my previous backup, and xoops had no backup feature, aside from exporting the tables, and thats hojothum’s job, but he doesn’t really post here anymore.

I’ve switch over to WordPress and it seems much better than xoops. nice and straight forward, and just does blogging well.

I still need to adjust the width of the text input boxes for comments, but other than that, i think its set.

Hey guys,

i’m looking to put some better RSS feeds in the Headlines section. if you paste me the urls of some feeds you find to be useful, i’ll add them.

BBC seems to have blocked my server from getting their feeds =( and salon only has a feed of their shitty op-ed pieces, not their newswires. =(

I’ve switched the site over to a system called xoops. Movable Type, the previous system, was good for the first 2 years, but it had a number of problems that forced me to switch:

• posting and commenting got slow over time
• spam seems to gravitate to MT
• the people that wrote it were going to start charging for the next version
• it can be hacked.

Xoops seems really cool, but everything is in php, so there aren’t hard urls to articles anymore, which bothers me for some reason.

anyway, i spent tons of time writing a script to import all the MT entries into Xoops. It also imported all your accounts, but i think the passwords got corrupted. There is a “forgot password” link now, though, so just use that, and enter your username@intensivepurposes.com as the email.

one quick warning: don’t put HTML links in your posts, there is a little button (looks like a chain link) that lets you insert links with xoops syntax.

UPDATE: I’ve now switched to WordPress which was an extremely painless transition. I was really up and running in five minutes. and it only took a few hours to apply my sites design to WordPress.

-jl 2/21/2005

This post is to test what happens when an image wider than the site gets posted. Also look at the Al Sharpton image, to see what happens to it.

Does this site support other text encodings? does this look like japanese:

???????????????????

i’ll know after i hit the post button.

I just installed the MT-BlackList plugin which will hopefully block alot of the comment-spam we’ve been getting. It also had this groovy retro-delete feature that went and killed all the old spam comments too. based on its success rate with that, i think it will work out well.

these are the top 25 queries that people use to find intensivepurposes.com, in april:

iraq propaganda
whats inscribed on the tablet by by the statue of liberty
‘keep iraq war plan secret’
2004 email addresses for cocco farmers in syria
american media israel owership
apearance biases
arabic common pharses
barbed wire fist t-shirts palestine
bush
capatol pictures
damien jones blog
damien jones dakota
damien jones photographs -fractal -fractals
difference between a democracy and a democratic republic
dr.speed torrent
faith hill coutry concert picture
for all intensive purposes
free birthday pharses for a best friend
gaza rapists
germany japan ww2
hojothum mac
i hate homestar runner
jack short for john
john kerry owership in a business
link: strategicdata.net

Hi all,

In case you noticed that Truthout headlines were no longer being posted on the news headlines side strip. My regex was parsing out urls wit doc_03 and when the new year turned, they switched to doc_04.

things should be normal now.

i’m sorry this place has been so dead lately. i’m working on a facelift, and an idea to encourage posting.