But watch as a celebrity like Jessica Alba defaces property multiple times and she gets away with it with a quick signature on one of her checks. I wonder how many minutes of work it'll take for her to make that money back. Notice that this time around when the property owners shrug off pursuing the matter, the police back off as well. Maybe Joseph Carnevale should have done a couple of "nude" scenes as well. I would suggest Jessica Alba cover his legal fees but we all know that won't happen.
But watch as a celebrity like Jessica Alba defaces property multiple times and she gets away with it with a quick signature on one of her checks. I wonder how many minutes of work it'll take for her to make that money back. Notice that this time around when the property owners shrug off pursuing the matter, the police back off as well. Maybe Joseph Carnevale should have done a couple of "nude" scenes as well. I would suggest Jessica Alba cover his legal fees but we all know that won't happen.
Imagine my surprise this morning to find about $40 missing from my Google Adsense account's running total since my last payment. In fact it actually brought me under the $100 requirement to receive a check from Google Adsense at the end of next month. With ten days left until the end of the money, there's plenty of time to get back over that requirement but that's still a chunk of change.
I'd be lying to say I wasn't concerned. I only find a few folks talking about the missing money from their Google Adsense accounts but it's a recent thread. Most folks are reporting that the money is only disappearing for a couple of hours and reappearing a short time later. There's no mention of a problem on the Google Adsense blog and no reports on the user side of the Google Adsense account
My forty bucks has been missing since I checked at about 7:30 am this morning. That makes it about 5 hours for me. How's everybody else doing with their account? Find any cash missing? Or did all the missing money show up in your account? (And are you going to keep it?)
Update: The money is back in my account. I noticed also a large number of clicks added back into that total as well. Hopefully this is the last of it. :)
Update #2: Gone again but today's clicks are in there. Ain't this fun?
This video came across Twitter a few days ago. I have to admit that I was a fairly big Magnum, P.I. fan growing up. Whoever did this put a fair amount of time into pasting up the video and matching it to the original opening credits of that show.
You can watch Harrison Ford (aka Han Solo) play a decent Tom Selleck (otherwise known as Thomas Magnum) after the fold.
And remember, you can download the video on the YouTube Downloader (Yes, it works again. Sorry about that.) as an *.mp4 file. It's supposed to be available as an HD *.mp4 file but I can't get the link to work right. Maybe it'll work for you.
I have to admit that one of the problems I have had with MovableType is that the comment form does not display on the single post pages. When you look at a post, you have to actually click on a link to get the form to pop up.
A quick google fixed that issue and I'll copy it below.
What you have to do is edit your mt.js file from within your MT install and comment out the line that includes the following:
hideDocumentElement('comments-form');
Since it's Javascript two forward slashes at the start of the line will comment it out.
You don't even have to do a rebuild except for that one file. Takes two seconds.
I hope this helps someone.
Any problems? Please let me know via a comment on this post. I'll make it pretty later on.
The basic program is Bill Weinman's BW Whois with a few modifications. Much like how the Youtube downloader started out as.
I've been meaning to turn the tdjc.be domain into a tool site for myself and others. I'm slowly getting there. At least I got the whois lookup tool done. :)
Anyway, I was reading in my old home town newspaper on their website that the local school board has voted 12 to 4 (with a handful of absentees) to require 20 hours of community service of all high school graduates, starting with the graduating class of 2013. This is on top of 17.5 credit hours already required by the state of Maine. (That's the newest version of state by state requirements for high school graduation that I could find. I'm sure there's something newer out there. edit: 2006) This stems from an agreement of sorts between the Oxford Hills school district and the Maine's commissioner of education, Susan Gendron, to trade off community service for an over abundance of used snow days that could have pushed back that year's graduation date.
Now mind you I'm a bit of a fan when it comes to community service. I do a fair amount of volunteerism myself. (Some days, it seems like that's all I do.) In fact I think it should be recommended to high school students that they should at least chip in and help. I don't think it should be a requirement for graduation though.
- Who's going to determine what organizations will be allowed and if time served will be counted? As noted in the article on the Advertiser-Democrat site, while the teachers are going to have first approval on what's allowed and what isn't, the final decision will come down to the high school principle and the director of guidance. I'm sure they're honorable folks and all that but who's to say what will be allowed and what won't be? I'm sure there won't be any issue with working 20 hours at your local church or library but what about 20 hours at your local Planed Parenthood? How about 20 hours for your non main stream presidential candidate? Will those students who choose to spend their 20 hours helping out with Ralph Nader, if he ever runs again, find out afterwards that their time was wasted?
- Will there be enough volunteerism opportunities for everybody? The Oxford Hills isn't that large of an area. Last time I checked, the eight towns together made up about twenty thousand folks with a graduating class about just under 200 students. (It's been awhile so those numbers have probably changed by now, for better or worse) Are there enough places students can go and volunteer? Also remember that not all high school students have access to cars so getting to and from opportunities may be an issue. Not everybody is going to be able to shelve books at their town's library.
- Ability. Let's be honest here. Not everybody has the mindset to volunteer. Sure, they may be gung ho going in but after 2 hours of ladling grits at six on a Sunday morning underneath an Interstate overpass isn't for everybody. And shelving books at the library isn't for everybody either.
- Time. Sure, twenty hours over a four year period doesn't seem to be a lot and I have to admit that I don't think it is either. But what about those teenagers who are working forty hours a week during the school year trying to make money for their families? Or two jobs during the summer? Are they going to be able to find the time to do their time?
- Will it be worth it? I have to wonder if students will get anything out of completing twenty hours of volunteerism. As noted in the article, doing community service is usually done as a punishment instead of serving jail time. Also, as noted in the article, colleges and universities look down on compulsory community service. Will that reflect badly on graduates trying to get into a decent college?
- If it's so important, why isn't anyone behind it? I know I keep going back to the article but you'll note that none of the board members spoke in favor for it. Are they really behind it or just trying to appear to be politically correct? Where were the community members speaking for it? The students? Seems like the only people behind it was Dr. Eastman, the district's superintendent, and Ted Moccia, the high school principal.
- One final thing: What happens if at the last minute it's discovered that a student doesn't have their twenty hours? Is it a waste of four years? If I was the parent and was presented with such an event, I'd been picking up my phone and calling my attorney.
Picture from here by the way. Please excuse any typos up there. Kind of rushed through this.
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