Every so often, I have issues that are more easily solved through the command line rather than through a graphical interface. And almost every time, the task to be done is repetitive, doing the same three or four acts over and over again on a set of files, but having to do it one file at a time. Today was no different.

In other words, should we tell countries like Germany or Australia to "sod off" and rely on the people living in those countries to agitate or illegally import and play computer games, rather than deal with their stupidly authoritarian censorship ratings boards?

I was taking a look at the new design of coldacid.net in IE8 beta 1, simply to find that it doesn't look right with the new rendering engine. Putting the browser into IE7 emulation mode, it comes out looking just fine, however, and I already knew that it works with Firefox 2 and 3. It's pretty interesting. Likely things will work just fine by the time IE8 final rolls out, especially given that the site (or at least the front page of it) is nearly perfect HTML and CSS (and the only validation errors wouldn't affect the rendering anyway).

Am I the only person who has found that Firefox 3 won't keep you logged into various sites between sessions, whereas Firefox 2 would? Between this and the fact that some of my favourite add-ons won't work with the newer version, I'm considering switching back to the older version of everyone's favourite open source browser. I'd rather not, as some of the changes in Firefox 3 are real improvements, that I have found quite useful.

Perhaps the problem will be fixed in 3.1, which I hear is coming out in a month or two. I hope it will be.

This week, I'm looking forward to tackling one of the issues that so far has kept me from moving Toast IT Toastmasters from the current (lame) website to a new one I'm building in Drupal. The problem has been that while there is a module for signing up for nodes, there is no module that does the same thing for CCK user reference fields. (Well, that's the one I'm tackling, anyway. There are others, but not as important.)

According to Sault Ste. Marie News, Bell and Telus have a new plan in mind for text messaging. Are you a Bell Mobility or Telus Mobility client? Well, expect to start paying for incoming text messages, even if they're completely unsolicited. The charges gouging begins on August 8, and both providers are looking at a 15 cent charge — the same customers face for sending a message.

Not everyone works from home. In fact, most people don't. But I'll bet that a lot of those people who don't, wish that they did. Well, I work from home, and if they want to work from home, I'll gladly switch places with them. Your home is possibly the worst place you could ever work.

I feel that party whips, while not an unconstitutional part of politics, are a surely immoral part. Unfortunately, they are a major part of modern party politics, as the purpose of the whip is to ensure that members of the party who sit in a parliament vote on issues as directed by the party leadership.

I'm moving over to Disqus for site comments, thanks to my friend Rob Loach's work on a Disqus module for Drupal. There's some issues to be ironed out, mainly with Drupal core, as I can't turn off the Comments module (it's required by Project issues) but disabling the ability of users to comment doesn't prevent it from spewing at hook_link.

Although I'm hearing about it a bit late, I just read on Michael Geist's blog that Rogers is intercepting bad DNS hits so to earn more ad revenue and pretty much break your internet.