Month: <span>September 2004</span>

As I mentioned before, I put together a slideshow on DVD for our wedding. We gave a copy to everyone who came to the reception instead of some silly favor that people would just leave behind.

I put up a copy for you to watch online in case you’re interested. The people who attended were quite moved, though if you don’t know the people in the photos, it might not have the same effect on you.

For your viewing pleasure, here it is, as a QuickTime movie (29MB), and as an MPEG-4 video (14MB). The QuickTime movie is higher resolution, but if you have a slower connection, I recommend the MPEG-4 version.

Uncategorized

Looks like the Al Franken Show weblog is coming online. People over there seem to be learning about comments, but they (rightly) don’t know what TrackBack or Permalink mean.

If you’re coming here from the Al Franken Show blog, here’s a quick explanation:

TrackBack is sort of like a comment, but the text comes from a post on another blog that’s linking to you, and the TrackBack page usually links back to the linking post.

A Permalink is a link to a specific blog post (as opposed to a link to the blog). Many blog systems will automatically make a TrackBack link (a.k.a. ping) if a post links to a permalink in another blog, so the features go together (though they don’t have to).

P.S. Alas, the Al Franken Show blog doesn’t seem to be configured correctly for TrackBack to work. Oh well. That feature is too hard to understand anyway.

Politics

One point of view I haven’t seen much of yet, either in the weblogs, or in the press, is the possibility that the Bush Administration actually forged the documents themselves, or knowingly released forgeries.

Think about this: One of the easiest ways to stop bad press about Bush’s lack of responsibility during his National Guard service, would be to discredit the detractors. Putting forgeries into the hands of CBS News/60 Minutes, and later discounting them would accomplish that goal quite nicely.

Have another look at Ben Barnes on getting Bush into the National Guard. Do we really need the documentation. What about all of the other National Guard people who never saw Bush? (Please leave a comment or send email if that link stops working, and I’ll put up a mirror.)

Having said that, I really would like to hear from the Bush Administration about the history of these documents. After all, it was them who released the documents in the first place, after the A.P. Freedom of Information Act suit, right? What about an independent investigation? What about a special prosecutor? There was no shortage of that when Clinton was President.

Politics