Liberals write essays like kids making up a melody
Political, Work, Photography ·Tuesday February 5, 2008 @ 18:54 EST (link)
20080203: Worked some more on the photo management application: so far it has a left selection pane with a tree control (populated from a database, which doesn't have all my photos, just a limited older subset, which is enough for testing; I'll bring in the rest later), and then the right is divided into a thumbnails pane at the top (which works, and allows for multi-selection and clicking pops up a window with a larger image), and at the bottom, a small pane which will be used for tagging and categorizing selections, and showing existing information.
I just finished Living Blue in the Red States (Starkey), which I picked up in a recent visit to the Woodinville library when Honey was getting some books for her cultural communications class, a required "political correctness" class where they tell you how evil it is to be white (even now, as she's studying a chapter of Intercultural Communications in Contexts, she is repeatedly piqued into comparing her textbook's bullheaded statements with something that comes out of a completely opposite end of the bull). Starkey's book isn't always that bad: it ranges between objections to morality, pablum stories, lamenting Bush's election (and impugning his character, usually in the same breath), and of course, the war in Iraq. I actually didnÂt find too much to get upset about; everything was so bland. Coulter says it best in Treason, my next book, an antidote:Liberals write essays like kids making up a melody. They meander along, issuing contradictory snide remarks about Bush, until they run out of energy and finally conclude with some incongruous, throaty peroration.
The left, especially ivory tower academics like these authors, is so afraid to take a stand or assume an absolute; so I just sat back and enjoyed the stories, and, during parts describing the South, looked favorably back to our time in Memphis, Tennessee: to the warm, tree-lined avenues, the polite accents, the food, and running in Shelby Farms.
Finished the chart OM last week (a "super-hotfix" to restore the ability to access the various chart sub-objects through Word), but a few properties are still failing so I mailed the chart developer, asking him why they're sending us a null view (argh); aside from whatever's broken on their end, it's finished, thanks to a perl script that converted all the chart objects to Word objects.
20080205: With the chart OM wrapped up, I'm now working for RL (Publisher dev. manager and ex-Word-lead) on a C# application to process the OpenOffice XML documentation and XSDs, which involves some SQL, which should be fun.
