hot air powers the point
Sometimes when I travel, I keep my camera close at hand. Here’s a couple of shots (though dirty, fogged up Q400 windows).
I took the picture of Crater Lake yesterday on my flight down to Sacramento and the picture of Portland on the way back.
Click the images for a larger view.
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The great tragedy of today’s convenient world is that you can live a trivial life and get away with it. —Tim Hansel
Update: If you don’t see maps, it’s likely that I disabled the Google Maps Plugin. Google now offers much the same functionality without the slowdown on every page load, regardless whether there’s a map on the page. Also, the funny stuff needed for CSS files is now built into the latest versions of K2.
Finally, thanks to all the help on the kaytwo Google Code forum and Avi Alkalay’s blog, Avi’s Google Maps Plugin for WordPress now works on my K2 blog in both Firefox and Internet Explorer!
This is a test in hybrid display mode.
Need two maps for the full test…
To duplicate my success, you’ll need to do a few things. The first two involve modifying your CSS.
K2’s most serious problem with the Inline Google Maps Plugin is displaying a gray background instead of the map. To fix this, search style.css for the following text:
#primary .entry-content img {
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
max-width: 100%;
}
The max-width declaration is the culprit. You have three options:
100% value to a lower percentage. You’ll need to experiment to find the appropriate value.100% with none.I recommend using the third option by placing the following in your custom scheme file:
#primary .entry-content img {
max-width: none;
}
You will only have to do this once. Updating your K2 theme should have no effect.
If you’re not using a scheme file, place the text at the end of your style.css file. You’ll then need to remember to make this change every time you update the K2 theme.
K2’s second problem is displaying the “map,” “satellite,” and “hybrid” buttons too tall. This was traced by people smarter than me to another portion of the style.css file. You can solve this issue by inserting the following text in your custom scheme file:
.entry-content div {
margin: 0;
}
The next change needs to be done each time you insert a map. After you create the anchor link, wrap it in <div> tags. For example, the map above is created with:
<div><a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q
&hl=en&q=4440+Winding+Way,+Sacramento,+CA+95841
&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.033113,68.115234
&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=38.641931,-121.360645
&spn=0.011397,0.023668&t=h&om=1&iwloc
=addr” title=”googlemaps”>This is a test in hybrid display mode.</a></div>
Notice the <div> tags surrounding the rest of the information. (I also arbitrarily broke the lines in the example listing so it would fit within my margins.)
That should do it!
This is a republication of an earlier post, heavily edited for simplicity.
Madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is working furiously to get Iran’s its first nuclear weapon. What a tragedy that would be for Israel, the region, and the world.
On May 24, Ahmadinejad was feeling pretty good. After all, the President of the United States of America was coming to negotiate with him. And it had been two months to the day since the UN had passed Resolution 1747.
Maybe he needs a little perspective.
I thought drinking was supposed to make people attractive. I guess it’s other people.
Watch the original.
HT: Strobist.
MAPLight.org shines the light on money and politics. Although there’s not necessarily a causal relationship between political donations and voting, being able to look up the information is a good thing.
Take the time to view the video tour.
HT: Roger
Another perspective on the many Americans who have died in war fighting for America.
Note: This chart shows only the deaths for those fighting on the Union side in the Civil War; the Confederacy suffered losses of 364,821.
Sources:
Update: Fusion Charts was taking too long to load, and then became unavailable. I’ve replaced it with a Zoho Sheet chart. I also updated the deaths for the Iraq War (OIF).
HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868
- The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, “of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion.” What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.
If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.
Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from hishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.
- It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.
- Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.
By order of
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Commander-in-ChiefN.P. CHIPMAN,
Adjutant GeneralOfficial:
WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G. (Source)
Robert Spencer’s post, “Blogging the Qur’an,” looks like the start of an interesting (and long) series. I’ll be reading…
(Can you say President Cheney?)
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