Two feature requests for Movable Type.
Posting dates should be publish dates.
The two posts prior to this one Gulag at Guantanamo and Amnesty International Doesn’t Need Me are marked as being posted at 8:06 and 11:07 pm respectively. For example, the line after the Gulag post says, “Posted by Ray Baxter at 08:06 PM”
This posting time [...]

After finishing off my last post about Anne Applebaum’s logical confusions about Amnesty International’s use of the word gulag in relation to the Untied States, I came across a couple of other tabs that I had kept open because I meant to post something about them.
This article from the New York Times shows that Amnesty [...]

This post grew from I comment I posted at Pandagon.

Reading closely is a bad habit. It makes it hard to keep polite company.
Anne Applebaum writes an opinion piece in the Washington Post that is completely void of any factual claims to back her opinions. The facts she does produce argue against the point that she [...]

The House Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services and education has voted to reduce annual federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to $300 million from $400 million. The Washington Post has a typical story.
It isn’t clear from the Post article, but reporting this afternoon on NPR makes it clear that the [...]

I have added Geo-tags to the blog. If you live nearby, I’ll be looking out for you. When Google send their trucks out to do 3-D mapping of San Francisco, maybe you can locate my house.
Down there on the lower left, near the end of my blogroll is a search at blogdigger.com for all the [...]

Yeah! We have mail coming from the warmroom.com domain.
My ISP, Earthlink, blocks port 25, making it impossible for me to send mail from the warmroom.com domain to anyone except Earthlink Or Mindspring customers.
I can receive e-mail because I use the MailHop service from DynDNS, but I cannot send mail. Using MailHop, DynDNS receives my mail, [...]

Today’s Washington Post has an article about home funerals. This strikes me as a good idea. Senator Santorum must agree.

In our last installment we were considering whether Kevlar or wire beaded tires should be more prone to failure in a downhill braking situation.
I had promised that I would write to Glenn Erickson concerning his recommendation to use Kevlar beaded tires because of a theory that the metal in wire beads gets hot and melts [...]

At a social gathering yesterday, CL recounted an experience she had while in the US Air Force. She was stationed at a base base (I can’t recall which one, maybe Castle?) that was part of the Strategic Air Command. They were under strict orders to respond to any and all questions about the presence of [...]

Can anyone explain to me why the Movable Type activity log insists on using UTC instead of my local time zone?

Date
IP Address
Log Message

2005.06.04 22:20:42
127.0.0.1
‘Ray Baxter’ added entry #75

I can see that the time is logged in the data base in UTC so this report is pretty straightforward. Other dates in the database are in [...]