Yes, I’m still mucking about in WP. Haven’t fixed the comments.php page yet thou did play with the Mingus one. Now testing to see if anything pings as I am frustrated nothing has all day.

Update: Solution in the Development blog which I’ve neglected to go to til now.

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Erase anything you may have in “Update Services” and just put http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

Trying to update a bunch of services was slowing it down so the site I wanted to trackback never got pinged. Went way faster and site actually got pinged. Edited several older posts and they trackbacked, least it shows at this end. Happy, happy, joy joy!

Upgraded to the latest nightly cause I was frustrated at trackbacks not working, they still don’t work. Now comments don’t work. Oh they are still there cause I get them in my email, just don’t show up. I hadn’t updated the index page and comments showed on every post til I did. Still, must be something else I am missing.

Will fix eventually.

Update: Went back to the comments.php in Mingus and comments showed up.

More on the WMD front, this time from the World Tribune. Copiously quoted and commented or is it fisked.

The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.

The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam’s missile and WMD program.

The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.

Ah but when Colin Powell showed satellite photos, no one believed him.

UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the council on June 9 that “the only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap,” Middle East Newsline reported.

“It’s being exported,” Perricos said after the briefing. “It’s being traded out. And there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal.”

Already blogged that on the 9th here and there (more comments there), old news.

“The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks,” Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.

No kidding, brilliant deduction I might say. Question is, if it has UN inspection tags, why wasn’t it reported Iraq had WMD and missile components before?

He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month. Destionations included Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey.

The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters - the latter required for the production of chemical and biological warheads.

But wait, Iraq had no WMD, remember Bush lied and all that crap the media loves to spout.

“It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for,” Ewen Buchanan, Perricos’s spokesman, said. “You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax.”

Oooo, fun, anthrax. I can hardly wait to get hit with that…not!

The UNMOVIC report said Iraqi missiles were dismantled and exported to such countries as Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile, one of at least 12, was discovered in a junk yard, replete with UN tags. In Jordan, UN inspectors found 20 SA-2 engines as well as components for solid-fuel for missiles.

Damn, a SAM. Bet from Jordan, it’s close enough to hit Israel. Don’t think some radical Islamic wouldn’t either. Who knows what goodies are where?

UN inspectors have assessed that the SA-2 and the short-range Al Samoud surface-to-surface missile were shipped abroad by agents of the Saddam regime. Buchanan said UNMOVIC plans to inspect other sites, including in Turkey.

Oh really, bout time too. Hopefully, they will get there before the Al Qaeda types do.

In April, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed El Baradei said material from Iraqi nuclear facilities were being smuggled out of the country.

Gee, wasn’t that around the time everyone was saying no WMD were found, Bush lied, and we shouldn’t have gone to war. Gee, Iraq has/had WMD, they are being/have been shipped who knows where, and said WMD pose/posed a threat to everyone, and if people would remove their collective heads out of the sand, they would do something about it sides ignoring the obvious thus putting us at greater risk. But no, people would rather say Bush lied and discredit him than go after the WMD. Idiots.

What I’ve learned so far, draft posts show up in LJ, posts in the future, a cool WP feature, show up in LJ as soon as they are posted, defeating the purpose of the feature. Best to uncheck LJ integration in those cases. And sometimes, when editing, posts come up duplicated in LJ necessitating deletion of the dupe. And when you want to delete one, checking last 20 gets:

Error

There was an error getting the journal entries to edit:
Client error: Invalid text encoding: Cannot display this post. Please see http://www.livejournal.com/support/encodings.bml for more information.

And checking on a certain date gets the same error message. Guessing it’s a problem with text encoding, using UTF-8 for WP. Works for older, pre WordPress messages. Only way I’ve found to edit an old message in LJ is to view source of page and find message number of one want to edit, then click to edit latest message and insert number in location bar, hit enter, and, voila, get the right one. Something to work on thou if LJ uses different encoding, may be unfixable.

I can write a post with the mood, which posts to LJ, then edit out the mood icon, inserting instead one of my custom smilies with synch with LJ unchecked and get the change in WP without the change in LJ. I can make other changes after posting to LJ if I want to.

I took the test, thanks to a little incitement by Sweet n Sassy who I can’t trackback for the life of me, and passed sortof.

Purgatory

You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.

See, I’m not so bad, still an infidel thou.

The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Kid has come home and updated me on the bf situation and, after freshening up, will be heading back to the hospital. She spent the night there with him which was a neat trick cause he was in ICU and they generally don’t like visitors staying long. Supposed to get out of there today.

There are things that are inadvisable to do…

like oversleep and miss President Reagan’s funeral.

There is some dispute among the leftists as to just what caused the collapse of the U.S.S.R.. Here are a few of the theories floating about. They forgot one - prayer, yes good old prayers for freedom. Doubt the left will go for that. Why can’t people recognize what Reagan did?

Note Lair’s comments about communism.

Also, notice how the guy says “USSR” and the gal says “Communism.” There’s a difference. Communism hasn’t vanished quite yet. You’ve still got a mutating variant of it in Vietnam, an odd form of it in China, an insane Stalinist-like cult in North Korea, and an increasingly bizarre form of it sputtering in Zimbabwe out there.

He did forget a few - Cuba, and the Liberal Left, Hillary especially. Their goals are a bit too close to Communism for comfort. And I won’t even get into how the Patriot Act will be abused if Hillary gets in power. It isn’t the economy, it’s the control of thought that still lives. Note China, which has become increasingly capitalistic to sustain their economy, still has a lock on dissent, free speech and the internet. Oppression still lives and there is no freedom of religion.

What Reagan did included more than economic change. It involved tearing down the wall, the wall of oppression, the wall of suppression of thought and speech. Peeple were free to go where they wanted, to worship as they please, to speak their mind and not be thrown into some gulag in Siberia. Give credit where credit is due. Ronald Reagan was one of our greatest Presidents and the breakup of the U.S.S.R. and the whole Eastern Block is one of his greatest legacies. Why? Freedom, he brought freedom to millions.