Reinventing the wheel

Damn. Three years plus after I signed up for Userland's Radio and finally had it down to a nice little groove, I'm having to learn all over again how to use the bells and whistles of HTML and blogging.

This site is going to look gross until I remaster what I know of HTML. I hate the orange stuff. I hate orange, in general, except in food. Just not my color. Neither is anything approaching rust. I'm trying to figure out what hexadecimal codes I should change backend to get rid of the orange and rust here, but not doing very well with my hit-or-miss approach.

Oh well, change is good, time to stretch the brain again since I'm going to have to do this for a few other websites in the near future. Bear with me as I slay the HTML beast.

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Liveblogged: U.S. vs. Libby -- A primer

As FireDogLake's liveblogging of Libby's trial continues, I note a number of abbreviations, acronyms, slang, shorthand popping up on the fly that most of us Plame-maniacs already know but newbies may not grasp. I'm going to try to document them here, a kind of not-so-secret decoder ring. If there's something you'd like to see added, leave me a comment and I'll cover it here. NOTE: in the event of a server crash at FireDogLake.com, check Windcatpond for announcements, as well as DailyKos for alternative live blogging posts. Complete list of FireDogLake's Libby trial live blog and related posts her e. Acronyms and Abbreviations: "ADD" From notes introduced during testimony by David Addington; abbreviation referred to Addington himself. ADDOPS ? -- Believe to be “Asst. Deputy Director Operations”-CIA (if you can confirm this one, leave me a comment, tks!) CIPA ...

The quality of mercy

The long goodbye has been longer than we ever thought it would be; instead of days or weeks, it's now been over a year since my mother-in-law was admitted to a nursing home. In hindsight it was naive to think that the suffering would be so short in duration. It was also not apparent at the time that the nursing home into which she'd first been admitted was integral to the condition she was in when I first wrote about her long goodbye .

A passing thought

It's been awfully quiet here in this new blog. I miss my Salon peeps stopping by whenever I posted in my old blog. Had a passing thought, though, while contemplating this new-found quietude: maybe the trolls won't find me here. [Sigh] There are tradeoffs for everything.

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