I just got a phone call. It wasn’t a number I recognized, but because of my job search, I answered it … just in case.

It was a recording from Verizon. I guess there’s a new calling plan for my area. Why don’t they just send a letter instead of calling … with a RECORDING … that is using up my minutes?

Mood: irritated   Charmed rerun

Okay … I’ve got the newest version of WP up and running now. Everything seems to be working fine. I still have some tweaking to do so I can have my smilie popup in the admin interface. But other than that … and adding content to the pages … everything is ready to go.

If you run across any issues, please let me know. Either post a comment to this post or use the contact form on the Contact page.

I’m going to try to start posting more technical content as well as my usual babble. And I might even try to do some WP plugins. I’m goting to rework the one that I have and am still using. I’ll post that when I get things done.

And out of curiosity … what do you think of the new look?

Mood: accomplished   Charmed rerun

This is the first post I've posted with the new version of WP. I'm testing out a few things to make sure everything is working properly.

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Mood: working   Cup qualifying

Author's note:
I know that I don't often post news here. But this is something I wanted to post. It's been big news around here since Dru went missing. Things are finally settled. I know there will be appeals, but still ... things are settled.

Rodriguez gets death
Dave Olson, The Forum
Published Friday, September 22, 2006
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Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. will be put to death for kidnapping and killing Dru Sjodin.

Jurors in Rodriguez’s federal trial rejected the option of life in prison without parole, finding instead that Rodriguez should be executed, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in North Dakota since the early 1900s.

Rodriguez will be sentenced at a later date set by U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Erickson.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Richard Ney asked jurors for mercy, stating that killing Rodriguez would mean putting to death someone who suffered sexual abuse as a child and who possibly received brain damage because of exposure to toxic farm chemicals.

U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley said aggravating factors, including past sexual assaults committed by Rodriguez and the manner in which Sjodin was killed, demanded the death sentence.

Just wanted to mention that this site will be down for a time today. I've been working on a new theme for WP 2.0 so that I can upgrade. I've got that pretty much done, so I plan on updating to the latest version of WP today and getting the new theme set up. Hopefully it won't take too long to do.

Mood: weird