This is the new Wordpress version of Polizeros. I will be uploading the entire old site, exactly as it was, into a folder here. Thus ALL the old blog will be here soon!

Update: Right now, the ftp of the old site to here is being grumpy. But then, ftp can often be grumpy! Either that, or it’s a rights issue on the new server. I’ll get the old site uploaded in a day or two.

The domain name switch took 23 hours to propagate until I could access this site. This is way faster than it used to take.

I’m liking Wordpress a lot. It’s got some neat features that the old platform, Radio Userland doesn’t have. However, I’m still using Radio to read my rss feeds, because it has the best news aggregator/reader anywhere.

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The theme I’m using, a modified verson of sharepointlike, has, as you’ve no doubt noticed, has some words in Russian, like “categories” and “comments.”

The Russian doesn’t appear to be in the PHP or CSS code, so I’m guessing it’s a system setting. Anyone know how to set it to English?

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It happened in late October 2001. The mighty Rio Grande, storied river of cowboy lore, icon of the West, petered out before it reached the sea.

And the same thing happened the next year.

“A whole series of events contributed to the river drying up,” said Robert J. Edwards, a biologist at the University of Texas-Pan American who conducts research in the Rio Grande. “But the bottom line is, there are too many people using too much water.”

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Texas overpaid Miers in land sale

Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 _ 10 times the land’s worth _ despite the state’s objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.

The three-member committee that determined the price included Peggy Lundy, a friend of Miers, and property-rights activist Cathie Adams, Knight Ridder reported. They were appointed to the panel by state District Judge David Evans, who had received at least $5,000 in campaign contributions from Miers’ law firm.

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Governor pulls himself off the screen

Schwarzenegger asks stations to remove ads that feature him pitching initiatives. Some say move reflects his fading poll numbers.

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Damascus - Syria’s highest political body, the National Progressive Front, on Sunday rejected a UN report implicating Damascus in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri as a distortion of the truth.

The report drawn up by German judge Detlev Mehlis is “full of contradictions and has distorted the truth and the facts,” said the Front, which groups eight parties headed by President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath.

Could Syria be lying? Sure. But we’ve already been down the UN report raod which proven to be falso, haven’t we?

Iran calls for more documented report on Hariri’s assassination

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A Republican senator said Sunday that it would be appropriate for any White House aide to step aside if indicted in the CIA leak investigation.

The grand jury term expires Friday. Thus the indictments (and I assume there will be indictments) have to happen this week.

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China will shut its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, its deputy health minister has said. As bird flu entered Britain yesterday with the discovery of the virus in a parrot in quarantine, Huang Jiefu said saving lives would be Beijing’s main priority even if it meant a slowdown in the economy.

A socialist country, with more central control, can probably do this easier than a capitalist country. Still, China has huge borders and the east borders would seem to be very porous indeed.

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This is the new site for Polizeros. It runs under Wordpress now. Expect the look and feel to be changing in the next few days as I tweak this site.

All the content from the old Polizeros will be moved here in day or so.

And away we go….!

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