Asymptomatic

This Photoshop filter looks pretty sweet. It creates cutlines/woodcuts from monochrome images.

I’ve been using FeedDemon for reading news, and I really like it, but as with many software packages, I’m seeing little cracks here and there that will eventually bug me to the point that I’m annoyed by the software as a whole. And that’s never a good thing.

So here are a few ideas I had for something that would please me, and you’re welcome to bash or agree as you see fit. Some of these are things the FeedDemon does that I like, but you’ll also note things in this list that FeedDemon doesn’t do.

I’m becoming a freakish fanboy here, but check out the E!Online poll numbers for getting a second season of Veronica Mars- 56% vs West Wing’s “less than 1%”. Woo hoo!

Themes that remove the wp_head() call are outright broken, as are themes that do not provide some way of addressing each post via DOM whether it’s on the H3 or the DIV. I would prefer the DIV, but then we’d be changing the way it’s done from the Default theme.

Someone needs to provide a serious review service for themes so that these things aren’t overlooked. I think there is a sad disparity between designers and developers in this arena. Designers are often very concerned about what the site looks like and whether it renders properly in every browser, but often overlook or aren’t aware of hooks that developers are using to implement plugins or other features.

It sickens me that the power that I have granted Congress and the President have been abused to this extent. Whether I believe Terri Schiavo should continue on life support is immaterial. The government has robbed the judiciary of its power, and they’re the only ones who can really make an educated decision regarding this issue.

By endorsing this bill, which is directed specifically at the Schiavo case no matter what guise they try to hide it in, they’ve tacitly endorsed the parent’s request to continue life support for Schiavo without the requirement of reviewing the medical evidence or the wishes of her or her family. They’ve essentially taken the easy road to re-election by choosing sides with the uninformed populace and assuming that the case had not already been determined from the perspective of “presumption in favor of life”. They’ve assumed power for themselves that they were not granted, and subverted the process of checks and balances that we all learned in elementary school was so important. Our government has broken fundamentally today.