For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

A few minor site updates

Published Sat, Apr 28 2007 6:43 PM
Technorati Tags: Software Development

I made a few minor updates to the site code today and run a few tests, and they seem to work. Please report any site bugs to me at perri at perrinelson dot com.

I've updated the AKismet handler to give me more useful information when AKismet rejects a ping or a comment, and I've simplified the interface that allows me to update AKismet and restore pings or comments that have been rejected. This should be completely transparent to all of you.

I've also fixed a bug that's been annoying me for a couple of months. My settings for the site are supposed to have five posts per page, with one "sticky" post on the front page. The "sticky" post was working fine, but the front page was only showing four posts instead of five. All other pages were showing five posts. The front page's fifth post was not showing up at all, unless you happened to link directly to it.

It finally got annoying enough for me to fix it.

Next up, I've changed the recent comments widget in the sidebar. Instead of including the full comment text in the widget, It will show the commenter's name as a link to the comment, and each entry will simply say who commented and on what post. You will be able to click on the post title to view the entire post.

Speaking of comments, I've been thinking about comment notification as well as post notification. Currently I don't send any notifications when content on the site has updated, except by pinging technorati, blogrolling.com and feedburner. I'm thinking of changing that, but I don't want to spam anyone.

So tell me... in the comments please... If I added the option to subscribe via email to the comments on a particular post would that be something you'd want? How about an option to subscribe to posting notifications in general?

Are there other features you'd like to see implemented?

Just let me know.

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Angel responded with:

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well, I'd like some coffee and my eggs over easy k?..LOL..just kiddin..great work!..:)

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