Humanize the Earth!

New Orleans and Civil War

My friend Rose Vines lives in New Orleans (or she did before this week) and works with Sister Helen Prejean on death penalty issues. She’s been writing about her experiences at omiyar.net. You can donate directly to help Rose and her partner here. Others there have also been discussing looting and such. Then I read Chris Corrigan: I just heard a report that a New Orleans hospital has been taken over by people with guns. I don’t get it. The tendency towards civil war seems to lie so close to the surface. What would it take for us to have a full-scale civil was in the US? Doesn’t seem like it would take much.

Compost Workshop

I’ve posted before about composting in Chicago. Tonight we had a workshop at the Hub given by master composter Melody, also of Chicagoland Bicycle Federation fame. She was awesome. We learned all about composting outside and inside. She was also able to troubleshoot our two active compost bins. We need to drill some holes in one of our bins and add more “browns” (shedded newspaper, dead brown leaves, etc) to the other one. Cool.

Why do you do what you do?

reposted to liven this place up a bit

Open Space On Open Space In US 2005

Just registered for the Open Space on Opening More Space in the USA November 12-14th in San Antonio. Looking forward to joining those open spacers for another round. :-)

Film: The Wooden Camera

Saw The Wooden Camera last night. Awesome! It’s a South African, Engligh-language film about friends (kids) that go opposite ways after finding a gun and a video camera. Some really beautiful imagry. Check it out!

Critical Mass tonight!

Ride daily, Celebrate Monthly!

Note sure how this ended up as a draft. Am just seeing today (Monday) this it didn’t get published Friday when I wrote it. The Mass was fantastic! Very festive. Lots of people. Join us at Happy Hour on the 9th of Sept and then the Sept ride!

invite to my place

Was just reminded by Sam:

On that note, we’re hosting Critical Mass Happy Hour on the 9th of September. You’re all invited. It’s going to be a sort of pre-housewarming party. You should come! It’ll be fun!

I concur. Come on over. :-)

CC for WP problem update

Sure enough, my post showed up as a trackback and Nathan replied (on his blog which then showed up as trackback to my post):

WordPress provides a “footer” hook which wpLicense uses, but in order for it to be called, your template must include a call to wp_footer();, probably in footer.php. The default theme, Kubrick, does that, so you might look at it’s footer.php for a sample.

He also said there was no link to register in order to leave a comment here. This is a reminder to myself to look into that. Might also be a theme issue.

Update: I found the tag in question in the Kubrick footer and copied it over and it worked! Just like that. Still have to figure out the comment issue.

Update: Took the comments template from the default theme and just copied over the comments template from Minima Plus. Solved the issue of not being able to register. Now the formatting is all funky. Guess I’m going to have to delve into the actual code.

Update: Seems it just had to do with the width of the comment-entry box so I changed it from 100% to 40 columns and now everything looks okay. Woo hoo!

Creative Commons for Wordpress problem

Just downloaded and installed the wordpress plugin wplicense that’s supposed to display a link to my Creative Commons license in the footer. Doesn’t seem to work. Not sure how to get tech support so hoping my link to them will attract their attention and response. The plug-in works fine, activated on the plugin menu, then shows up an additional option on the options menu. I picked my license. All looks well there. Just don’t see the output I’d like.

just imported comments from haloscan to wordpress

Amazing. Thanks to Justin I now have all of the comments from my blogger blog, which were actually kept by haloscan. Totally cool. Thanks Justin!

link to Justin fixed - thanks Harry!