Huh?

So they've gone and monkeyed with the layout again (I swear this sort of shit is done just to justify the jobs of people who are afraid they will be fired if all they do is keep the system running without flaws. I'd be perfectly happy to see old trains, if they ran on time. I don't need the engineers to spend time painting them just to look like they've been working).

I think it sucks, the banners across the top waste sceen space, are distracting and do damn all to make the place atractive to me. I am here for the gemütlicheit and that's all the ambience I need.

But today I went to find an old post, for some reference, and noticed the archive button seems to be missing. I have a direct link to ljseek but that's a sad substitute for being able to drift back along the current of thought to see what was going on, in times past.

Have I just failed to find it, in all the clutter now on my desktop, or did it go out with the bathwater?

Thanks

To all who have responded, my thanks.

It now looks familiar. A trifle clunky, all angles and elbows, but not, "helpy" (which is when the toddler empties all the dry goods into the middle of the floor, so you will know where things are).

Calendar didn't look to me as things I had done, esp. since there is a calendar, so people can see things one will do.

Update on WIPO

The piece I put up earlier in the week from herowlness about the issue of copyright, and who gets it, the EFF has some more details here.

The important thing to do is to write your senators, your representative, the leaders of the various committees, and factions (majority, and minority), and tell them why you think this is a bad idea.

Look at the supporting documents at the EFF site. Look at the sample letter and rework it.

Rule of law

Glenn Greenwald has a post up about the furor in places like M. Malkin's blog about the conviction of a group of terrorists in Indonesia.

Seems they were convicted of killing some 200 hundred people, sentenced to death and the date of the execution has been set. Malkin finds such an outcome outrageous.

Why? The only reason I can see, in her blog, is this one, "Julia Duin has background on the long history of Christian persecution in Indonesia," since she's an vehement advocate of holding people without so much as a charge, since silence = assent, and this shows no demurrer, much less any sense of outrage that the principles of normal jurisprudence aren't being followed.

She does, however, note; with approbation, that lawyers for the condemned are appealing the verdict to the International Criminal Court, to which Jakarta is a signatory. You may rest assured however, she makes no argument the U.S. joining that convention is a good idea.

In a nutshell, she seems to think these guys can't have done it, because Christians just don't do that. That's the most charitable spin I can put on it, because the least charitable is that it's justrified for Christians to kill Muslims. Somewhere in the middle is the hypocrisy that the rule of law only applies when other countries arrest people on charges of terrorism.