this video.

The idea of the uncanny valley definitely applies to food. I ignored the entire “moving” line because it radically diverges from the “still” line with respect to food. Here you go:

the uncanny valley of food

I just wanted to let everyone have a roundup of my favorite new “music videos.” These are certainly not official music videos and are often more videos with music soundtracks but I hope you enjoy…

Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit with Clementine by Megan Washington

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Come on Up To the House by the incomparable Tom Waits done by the fantastical body painter Anders Lovgren (forgive the lack of umalts)

Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie done by Violette Valeriey

oren lavie – her morning elegance from violette valeriey on Vimeo.

Lisztomania by Phoenix but not the real version… the “Brat Pack” version by avoidantconsumer (and really John Hughes RIP)

Lisztomania by Phoenix but not the real version… the Brooklyn version (the real version is pretty much junk and where do you get rooves like this!?) by thepinkbismuth (both versions and Phoenix’s song are what early summer 2009 felt like, condensed and dancified.)

Anyone else have any recent favorites? Maybe you will see more post here… but lets not kid ourselves.

Error originates: RdWrOT: IFlag = 2 Data mismatch
Search? I only get here. And the results aren’t exactly useful …

你给出的信息太少了,能不能多贴一点出来?

Anyway this almost always seems to be a problem with the collision of the previous and current route. Often I have to increase the number of optimization or SCF cycles because my systems are large and I do optimizations with diffuse functions, which tend to be pretty ill-behaved. Here’s the total head of the log:

******************************************
Gaussian 03: AM64L-G03RevE.01 11-Sep-2007
29-Mar-2009
******************************************
%chk=freq_min60.chk
%nprocshared=8
Will use up to 8 processors via shared memory.
%nproclinda=16
Will use up to 16 processors via Linda.
%mem=100MW
Default route: MaxDisk=200GB
----------------------------------------------------------------------
# freq=restart b3lyp/6-31+g(d) geom=allcheckpoint guess=read int=fmmna
toms=300 scf=tight
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1/10=4,30=1,35=1/3;
99//99;

GradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGrad
Berny optimization.
Restoring state from the checkpoint file "freq_min60.chk".
Title: min60
Route: # opt b3lyp/6-31+g(d) geom=allcheckpoint guess=read int=fmmnat
oms=300 optcyc=1000 scfcyc=1000
RdWrOT: IFlag = 2 Data mismatch
MaxStp (old) = 504 MaxStp (new) = 2
MaxJob (old) = 1 MaxJob (new) = 1
RdWrOT: Data mismatch on MaxStp/MaxJob
Error termination via Lnk1e in /apps/steele/g03-E.01/l103.exe at Sun Mar 29 01:19:04 2009.
Job cpu time: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 13.6 seconds.
File lengths (MBytes): RWF= 49 Int= 0 D2E= 0 Chk= 56 Scr= 1
Command exited with non-zero status 1


I’m posting this more so this error comes up in Google to Vdov so maybe, maybe someone can tell me about it (no one, including people who really know the software well, has been able to provide an acceptable explanation thus far). If the two routes are both optimizations, for instance, you can usually get around this error by eliminating the opt cycle specification in the new restarted route. But if you’re moving the guess and geometry to some new calculation, it’s nearly impossible to get around this. The solution is almost always to create a formatted checkpoint file (formchk) and convert back (unfchk), so the route disappears. You could also obviously do this by specifying the new geometry as a Z-matrix in the initial calculation, but I much prefer to read my initial guess from the checkpoint, so this is not a good option in many cases. Starting the calculation and then restarting from the new binary checkpoint file usually does the trick, as there are appear to be no collisions in the route cycles.

Anyway, cheers. Hopefully someone who knows something about this will let me know.

Let’s say you have a system composed of N different species and you’ve got your xtc trajectory file from the run. Then let’s say you want to know about average cluster sizes of one of the species in the simulation. For some programs in gromacs (not g_clustsize, the one in question here) this is fairly easy because the software lets you specify, either through the program options itself or through an index file, what you’d like to consider. With others though, especially those with options for dealing with molecule statistics explicitly, that don’t allow you to do this for whatever reason. So, a workaround is necessary.

First, edit your input mdp file and topology with extreme prejudice, eliminating or commenting out references to anything you’re not interested in. For instance, in my files, I need to remove all water and ions. I call all these new files “fake” versions of the real files.

$ diff fake_fullmd.mdp fullmd.mdp
15,16c15,16
< xtc_grps = protein ; sol na+ cl-
< energygrps = protein ; sol na+ cl-
---
> xtc_grps = protein sol na+ cl-
> energygrps = protein sol na+ cl-


$ diff fake_topol.top topol.top
163a164,166
> SOL 9529
> NA+ 10
> CL- 10


Make sure you have an index file if you don’t already:

$ make_ndx -f conf.gro


Then dump the first frame of the real simulation. The program (trjconv) will ask you which parts of the frame you’d like to dump.

$ trjconv -f traj.xtc -o fake_protein.gro -s b4md.tpr -n index.ndx -dump 0
...
Select group for output
Group 0 ( System) has 37968 elements
Group 1 ( Protein) has 1568 elements
Group 2 ( Protein-H) has 784 elements
...
Select a group:


Now generate the new input binary for your “fake” system.

$ grompp -f fake_fullmd.mdp -c fake_protein.gro -p fake_topol.top -o fake_b4md.tpr


Convert your trajectory, again selecting whichever part of the trajectory you’re interested in.

$ trjconv -f traj.xtc -o fake_protein.xtc -s b4md.tpr -n index.ndx
...
Select group for output
Group 0 ( System) has 37968 elements
Group 1 ( Protein) has 1568 elements
Group 2 ( Protein-H) has 784 elements
...
Select a group:


Now you’re ready to run your analysis! It won’t actually use the index file you specify here (since you’re only looking at molecules with the -mol option), though it requires it for some reason that eludes me.

$ g_clustsize -f fake_protein.xtc -s fake_b4md.tpr -mol -n index.ndx


And there you have it. Cluster statistics for an arbitrary subset of your system. Cheers.

NOTE: There actually are slightly more elegant ways of doing this, but this is perfectly sufficient for simple situations, like clustering of some molecule in some other explicit medium.

First you have to be in Rhode Island or it’s immediate vicinity because you need coffee syrup (it might be available elsewhere but I can’t vouch for it but it just happens to be half the ingredients for the state drink… coffeemilk) which is pictured to the left. Then it is cream and cheap vodka.

2 oz vodka
1 oz coffee syrup
light cream

Done!

UPDATE: If you search for “coffee syrup” you don’t get this but if you search for “eclipse syrup” you do… bravo

So now the point of this is that Mankiw’s blog now has a great tie in done by the publisher of his textbook. The publisher went through his blog and made a “blog map” tying blog posts to specific citations in the textbook. Its pretty cool considering that the idea behind Mankiw’s blog is to keep students of Economics up to date with contemporary examples. Now I have no idea what the back end is like on the “blog map” but you can imagine how this could be seamlessly integrated in a very semantic way. For example tags on blog posts could auto update to the relevant citations on the map, certain phrases could trigger citation/tagging automatically, and on the textbook end you could imagine that sections be tagged in an electronic form as they are added in new additions thus updating citations throughout the blog map even with older posts. The awesome part is that you can really see the value added to the textbook. By linking it to the blog you basically get continuous additions by Mankiw making the value of his authorship continual rather than finite.

Time to look back, if just for a moment. ‘08 is probably a year that many want to leave far, far behind, but at least there was some decent music. For the 4th year running, here’s some albums I liked that you may want to check out.

Following college it has been increasingly difficult to present a solid list of compelling albums. With the slim trickle of new music reaching my ears when compared to the bountiful days of WBOR and Bowdoin College, I have a much smaller list of music to choose from. I know a lot of my friends find themselves in a similar situation. So- hopefully this provides a few new items for you. Here it is: my non-hipster approved list, starting, as usual, with number 10.

(10) Fleet Foxes- s/t (June 2008)
Alright, Ryan. Fine. I like it. I listened to it a bunch over the Holidays and it was good. My parents even remarked “this is great Christmas music!”. You win, you always do. Goulet.

(9) Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours (April 2008)
Disco’s back, baby! Or is it 80s pop-synth-electronica? Whatever it is, it’s fun. Though- I sometimes get odd looks if I crank this album while driving around town in my Miata with the top down. Can’t quite explain that one.

(8) Airborne Toxic Event – s/t (August 2008)
Maybe they don’t have the most developed sound- in fact, you might even liken it to that poppy-happy crap that swills out of most of the major labels. Then again, its catchy and I like it. I can’t fault that all too much. Perhaps my tastes are drifting more toward the mainstream at this point. Being further from the vast wealth of new music that is college radio, my exposure to new work has fallen off– though KEXP provides a steady stream of awesome indie music. Airborne Toxic Event has expanded their EP from 2007 quite nicely with a well-rounded album that offers fast paced songs like “Wishing Well” and more gallant, “epic” sounding songs like “Sometime Around Midnight”. All together the album hits a number of points, albeit with slightly emo lyrics, and provides an enjoyable listening experience.

(7) TV on the Radio- Dear Science (September 2008)
TV on the Radio (TOTR?) sound like a refined, professional version of The Mathematicians- especially in “Dancing Choose”. I cannot complain about such a resemblance. The more palatable sound perhaps means I would be able to get more than a small group of close friends to listen to the group- such has not been the case with The Mathematicians. I applaud those who see the genius in Dewey Decimal and Pete Pythgoras, and perhaps an album like Dear Science can be the gateway drug to more cultish favorites.

(6) Cold War Kids- Loyalty to Loyalty (September 2008)
Some records are “headphone albums” or “scream-out-loud-in-the-car albums”. Loyalty to Loyalty is most definitely a vinyl album. It is best enjoyed on a nice set of turntables with giant speakers attached, encouraging you to sit close by and drink in the intricacies of the music. CWK is still on my list of must-sees- I missed one show in Boston (for which I even had tickets!), but I won’t let such a tragedy happen again.

(5) Vampire Weekend- s/t (January 2008)
Again, more mainstream-ish. They seem to be getting popular awfully quick. I hope a second album follows that is just as good. I may have burned out on this one simply because I listened to it so often over the summer; that’s a sign of a great album in my book, though. I like cohesive albums, and this seems to lack the strong theme(s) that many of the other compilations on this list have, but each song is so strong on its own that I can let such a foible pass.

(4) Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (February 2008)
I want to be relaxing in a leather chair in front of a fireplace, looking outside at the falling snow, with a glass of scotch in my hand as I listen to this album. It is supremely relaxing, and evokes a distinct calm winter night vibe that is simply perfect. Okay- fine- their name is “Good Winter” but still… you could call them Bob’s Oyster Sandwich Team, and I’d still get the same feeling. I missed their show in Boston this year, which came at a perfect time to reflect on cold evenings, but I am not sure if I missed much- this really seems like an album for at home in the living room.

(3) Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line (August 2008)
Somehow, an album for which I cannot particularly remember specific songs has made it to #3 this year. I am a loss of what to say. However, as I thought about the album in comparison to each of the others on the list, it kept climbing. There is just something about it that really works. It’s not pop crap, its not erudite indie drivel, and its certainly not emo crooning. Its just a great album. FWIW- they are the highest ranked “band I have not seen live” from any year (discounting last year because, as I mentioned in that email, the non- #1 albums really weren’t that great in the grand scheme of things).

(2) Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (September 2008)
Some people call her narcissistic for her obsessions with talking about herself. I find it entertaining that Amanda Palmer details so many things in her life to her audience- it makes her one of the most accessible artists I have encountered. Whether it is watching her sing Rhianna’s Umbrella on some street in Belfast with a broken foot, or auctioning off band gear as a intermission at her concerts, or writing her own twitter updates, she connects with the crowd. The songs on Who Killed Amanda Palmer work toward this goal of sharing by being deeply personal. The rhythms are pretty catchy, and her powerful voice shines through as always. I was also impressed with the input of Ben Folds in producing and arranging the album. Well done! To top it all off, the opening track on this album rocks, and a killer opening track will always win me over. PS- the Dresden Dolls album this year, No Virginia, is quite good too- I just did not want to flood the list with Palmer entries (and the opening track of the Dolls album is rather weak).

(1) The Hold Steady – Stay Positive (July 2008)
When I first heard the Stay Posi’ songs at the Paradise last spring, the band clearly had not practiced them much in front of a crowd- I was worried. After hearing the full album, though, I was totally sold. It’s damn good. Really damn good. THS’s sound has matured from earlier iterations. Not the “that cheese smells terrible” sort of matured, but the “Craig Finn can carry a tune!” matured. If Craig can continue this upward trajectory, he may even win Jessi over one day. The Hold Steady managed to impress me while playing at the Orpheum in Boston- possibly the most horrid venue in the world for such a band- it was clearly designed for midgets with binoculars and highly sensitive hearing. Oh- and if it is still up, check out this video. Muppets doing THS. woot.

Now, the massive post scriptum, my historical top 10s, starting with 2005.

2005
10. The 88 – Over and Over
9. Absolute Music volume 47, Swedish edition
8. The Mathematicians – Level One
7. Maggie, Pearce and EJ – Morgon, Mittag, Nacht
6. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
5. Roman Candles – Bang! Bang! Bang!
4. Why? – Elephant Eyelash
3. Broken Social Scene – s/t
2. The Decemberists – Picaresque
1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t

2006
10. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
9. Killers – Sam’s Town
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
7. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
6. Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die
5. Electric President – s/t
4. Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia
3. The Decemberists – Crane Wife
2. The Mathematicians – Level Two
1. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America

2007
10. Feist – The Reminder
9. Radiohead – In Rainbows
8. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga
7. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
6. Beirut – Flying Club Cup
5. The New Pornographers – Challengers
4. Tally Hall – Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum
3. Pela – Anytown Graffiti
2. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
1. The National – Boxer

2) Actually sign up for any of those products

3) Invite people over who need to reinstall N > 2 computers

4) Have absolutely nothing else to do

Merry day after Christmas. Cheers.

PS: The classic “NORAD tracks Santa” can be seen here: NORAD Santa Tracker (note that Iran is on the bad list… but the ISS was over Iran when Santa hit up that crew)

This has been a pretty fun little experiment for me, and I’ve come up with configurations anywhere from relative modesty to incredible setups which would cost tens if not hunders of thousands of dollars and include substantial modifications to wiring and home configuration (network closet anyone?)

Maybe some of you have some ideas. Cheers.

So, of course, people need to know how to do parallel simulations with this code. In all major package managers 4.0.2 hasn’t made it through any appropriate channels, so people have to build it themselves. Unlike most major scientific packages, building Gromacs is absurdly simple. Things are quite beautiful actually.

Anyway, my point isn’t to extol the virtues of Gromacs but rather to suggest that if something doesn’t work, do the initial work to figure out the problem and exhaust at least the most obvious problems with the software before throwing your hands up in the air. Problem with MPI? Test it first! Anyone working with MPI should at the very least be able to look up how to write a basic MPI application.

An example:

#include "stdio.h"
#include "mpi.h"

int
main(argc, argv)
int   argc;
char  *argv[];
{
  int  rank, size, length;

  char name[MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME];

  MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
  MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
  MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);
  MPI_Get_processor_name(name, &length);

  printf ("process %d of %d on %s\n", rank, size, name);

  MPI_Finalize();

  return 0;
}

If you’re on a modern Debian or Ubuntu build with OpenMPI installed (pretty much the standard MPI implementation you should be using), then build.

$ mpicc.openmpi -o hello hello.c
$ mpirun.openmpi -np 4 hello
process 1 of 4 on enskog
process 2 of 4 on enskog
process 3 of 4 on enskog
process 0 of 4 on enskog

I do love my MPI. And Gromacs does dynamic load balancing now … so freaking fast.

Cheers.

• Flying random airlines localized to a specific country is usually a very bad idea
• … Especially when those airlines are localized to a country where strikes are often completely random in nature.
• Never, ever, when traveling internationally, book multiple trips on the same day.

Now some specifics:

I arrive, after a really fantastic trip in Italy, to the major Rome international airport (FCO). My flight was to London on Alitalia, where I was to pick up a seperate set of flights back to Indianapolis. The UK government paid for my trip to and from London whereas my trip to Italy was for personal business, so these two trips were booked separately.

Accordingly to Alitalia, my flight was “confirmed” and my ticket was “valid”. Ha! Well it turns out that Alitalia was randomly striking at the time, but only sort of striking, as some pilots would show up to fly the planes and others would not. This seemed to be completely par for the course there, which didn’t make much sense to me. Turns out people had been waiting there for a flight to London for over 3 days. None of their flights had left due to this strike. And of course all other flights to London were way overbooked because Alitalia hadn’t had a flight there in nearly a week. But, of course, according to the airline, the tickets were still “valid”, they just didn’t have pilots to fly the planes.

As the time came where it became obvious that I wasn’t going to make my connections in London, I started to freak out a bit, since it seemed no one was going anywhere from Rome and I was never going to be able to get home. I forfeited my flights from London to Indianapolis and was stuck in Rome because of this crappy airline. So, I had to wake up my parents at 2 am on the west coast to book me new flights back to Indianapolis through Frankfurt and DC. What was a nearly free 2 week stay in Europe had just become much more expensive.

Obviously I couldn’t show up for my flights in London, so those tickets were just flat gone. Would Alitalia at the very least give me my money back? Of course not, they claimed my tickets were still “valid”. Good lord. Screw you people.

When I arrived in Rome and told the people I was staying with that I was flying out on Alitalia, they openly laughed at me and said “good luck getting home”. Ugh.

Never fly Alitalia.

Cheers.

Oh yeah, and there’s that pesky thing called work that I have to do too. Stupid conferences. At least I’m an invited speaker: get the N-star treatment.

Cheers.

My principle argument about the self-destructive qualities of Capitalism has been many-pronged. Some of these prongs are not particularly relevant. My favorite deals with Capitalism’s requirement for unending expansion. While I think this is a perfectly valid point to consider, I can’t make a conclusive argument about its impact on today’s crisis.

The more relevant argument deals with the financial sector and the business of those who make money by dealing with money: investors, traders, speculators, etc. The core problem I have run into when talking about this with those who either aspire to become a participant in the financial sector, or with those who are simply admirers who hope to benefit from these practices now or at some point in the future is the claim that it is more complex than it could possibly look from the outside, and those who are not practicing cannot possibly understand its importance. This argument to me is akin to the religious argument that God works in mysterious ways and His truth, goodness, and existence is thereby unquestionable; an absurd justification, in my opinion.

So, speaking from the outside, the practices of the financial industry are self-destructive for the following reason.

The basic idea on Wall Street is to produce money by moving money. I’ve heard the phrase “you need money to make money” repeated without the batting of an eye by many respectable and intelligent people in my life, and this surprises me greatly. Currency is nothing more than the universal equivalent. In some economic epochs it has been an equivalent for goods more generally, and to some degree that is still the case. But more specifically in Capitalism it is the universal equivalent for productive labor hours. At its core the game in the financial industry is to create the equivalent using only more of the equivalent, without producing goods and without engaging in productive labor. This is not a complicated idea and no amount of business schooling or time spent engaging in this behavior can make it more complicated or less absurd. If there is any practice that this can be related to in a glorified fashion it is gambling. I’ve gambled a bit in my life and certainly wouldn’t mind winning the Powerball, but I could never convince myself or anyone else that going to the tracks, studying the horses and making a correct educated guess about investing money in a winning horse is in any way a productive activity. Now nobody at the tracks or on the Vegas strip is going to contribute to the collapse of major economies. However, it is the same activity that is the driving force of the industry whose success or failure correlates directly into the success or failure of world economies.

Now I don’t think this crisis is the end of Capitalism. Or even that any part of this world is ready for a major overhaul of the principle underpinnings of our economic systems. Those who know me know I am an admirer of Marx, Engles, and to some degree, Hegel. However as with any philosophy there are parts to appreciate and parts to call outdated and parts to dismiss on their own absurdity regardless of timeframe. Being a critic of Capitalism does not mean that feeling vindicated today makes me happy, or that it makes me search for that sickle I must have hidden away somewhere to head out to behead the fat-cat Capitalists and lead a revolution. Many radical socialists or communists have been revolutionaries; I am not. I hope that the crisis, whether or not it continues, allows people to open their eyes to some of the self-destructive qualities of our society, and allows them to get over fear of outdated catch phrases and misunderstood notions dealing with the big bad word: Socialism.

First of all I’d like to take a moment to welcome Russia to the modern world as they have acted as a completely typical and predictable regional state power (other Slavophils will recognize just how bizarre it is to attach those adjectives to anything Russian). There really is nothing out of the ordinary here, and in fact, in a grander sense, Russia is acting much more appropriately than the last time the United States engaged in serious regional power-flexing (I speak, of course, of the 1980s and Latin America). Russia saw instability in its region and moved in militarily, probably excessively. I think I’ve seen a similar play before with different actors… I can’t be sure though, that one might have been a comedy, it was a little far-fetched (I hope the reader picks up the reference here, but if not that is my fault and I’m not looking to get into it any further).

Secondly, I’d like to point out the hilarious irony here. Russia has taken military action claiming to defend the right of self-determinism in regions neighboring Russia. I’ll just provide some empty space to allow that to settle a bit.

So, Putin, remember Chechnya? Just another way that Russia has become more modern and typical. Ideals shifting unabashedly with circumstantial interests! Yay go modern nation-state! In previous epochs Russia has been an anomaly in that, while lead by awful men engaging in horrendous acts, Russia has typically had a sort of ideological zealotry it has stuck to, quite firmly. Not the case here, and if the rest of the world had a mirror it cleaned more often than once a century, it would probably applaud Russia for assuming more common tactics.

Moving on. Another point I’d like to make is that this conflict has really made clear for me the awful state of macro journalism in the US and Europe. I have not read one single article by a major news source that was not painfully un-inhibited by standards I would call essential to journalism. Some have chosen to be pro-Georgia, some pro-Russia, some even pro-US (what the hell?), but no one has relayed the facts and only the facts. This has caused me to have very little to say about the specific events that took place to cause this conflict. I simply don’t know! And I’m starting to think nobody else does either.

But what is really noteworthy here is just how un-noteworthy this conflict is turning out to be. Russia seems to have become a fairly typical international player and a regional power. Georgia may or may not have acted inappropriately but before we start name calling on Russia we should probably think about the fact that the man who almost certainly orchestrated some seriously illegal and awful regional power-flexing in Latin America during the Reagan years went on to serve as President and to produce in his offspring one of the worst Presidents in our nation’s history. Food for thought anyways…

A couple interesting trends in congressional Twittering is that I expected Democrats to be more on top of new web technology but Republicans outnumber them on Twitter (at least from the list above) pretty significantly. From a quick look Republicans also seem to be the most prolific twitterers (discounting feeds that appear to be done by staffers). It also seems that Twitter has brought Democrats and Republicans together on some issues. Basically Culberson and a Democrat ally, Rep. Tim Ryan, want to overhaul rules regulating correspondence from representatives. The current rules are somewhat archaic and are based on the findings of the Franking Commission which was set up to regulate how postal fee allotments could be used by congressmen. The rules forbid posting to any website that contains politicking or advertising (i.e. pretty much every website) in their “official capacity” and posts must include a disclaimer identifying the poster as a representative. The 140 character cap on Twitter prevents that. The rules also apply to blogs, youtube, and other social networking sites.

It is extremely interesting to see how congress keeps up with technology in their personal lives. It is extremelty interesting to see folks like Rep. Culberson interacting quite directly with constituents (and other citizens whether they agree or not).

For example (excerpts put together from twitter feeds):

@johnculberson 1st back up your tax assertion 2nd actually? IMO market can drive it IF we do it right & we’re not.

@jpippert I strongly support alternatives-but without taxing anyone else to pay for it. Let free market & tax credits drive it-but drill 1st

@johnculberson & drill here drill now: listen to T Boone Pickens & his mtg with Obama re dev. alternative energy. http://tinyurl.com/6lvayh

How is that for direct democracy?

Cheers.

UPDATE: Verdict: lame. See comment #1.

• Permalinks broke completely, still haven’t fixed this. For now, just using an ID call (static links to articles are nonfunctioning right now).
• RSS feed also seems to have gone down the drain. This is due to the same bug in 2.6 that caused the permalinks problem. I haven’t yet been able to fix it.
• Note that for you authors the login page has moved from ‘admin’ to ‘wp-admin’. This was a quick fix to another bug in 2.6 which I have decided to leave unresolved for the time being. Expect this change to be permanent.

Sorry about all this. The permalinks and RSS feed issues will either be fixed by me if I find the time/motivation or they’ll be fixed in the 2.6.1 release whenever that comes out.

Cheers.