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Did I see a motorcade?

So I’m sitting at the light this morning waiting to get onto the main road so I can head off to work. Just as the light turns green, a couple of motorcycle cops stop in the middle of the intersection, stop traffic in one lane (headed the way I’m trying to go of course), wave traffic through in the other lane. I’m thinking this is a little bit early for a funeral procession and then shortly afterward a caravan of 7 or 8 police cars go through all with lights flashing. Definitely not a funeral procession.

Finally after waiting at the red light again, I’m finally on my way to work. The 8AM news comes on the radio, and they start talking about Bill Clinton (minus Hillary) taking a break down in Kiawah. Nowhere near the Folly Beach direction these police cars were headed from, but maybe he decided to take a jog down Folly or something.

Or maybe it was just a bunch of people headed to where The Bill was going.
Guess I’ll never know…

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New MT!

Fresh off 6A’s software mill is MT 3.16 boasting lots of fixes and code improvements.

Not a lot of changes or fixes that affect me significantly, although there are a few things that should keep newbies out of trouble.

  • Authors can no longer delete their own accounts, which could result in disabled installations. (Seen more than a few people get nailed by this on the forums)
  • Improved the application’s ability to guess the desired weblog URL and filesystem path in new weblog setup screen. (Should be very helpful for newbies and non-techies)
  • On setup of dynamic rendering, Movable Type tries to create most of the pieces it needs (.htaccess, compiled-templates directory) on its own. Better error messages help the user create these pieces when Movable Type doesn’t have sufficient rights.
  • Fixed a bug in which, given a large number of entries, rebuilds may time out when using dynamic templates (under dynamic publishing the FileInfo table is rebuilt, instead of pages on the filesystem). We are now doing these “rebuilds” in stages to prevent timeouts in the browser. (Always wondered what there was to rebuild for dynamic archives)
  • Improved subcategory hierarchy display in the interface. Subcategories are displayed hierarchically in the following places: the Primary Category dropdown on the New Entry, Edit Entry and Quickpost screens, the category filter dropdown on the List Entries screen, the category filter and assignment dropdowns on the Power Edit screen and the popup category creation window.

Complete list of changes in the Changelog

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Med student quote of the day

Today is the turning point. If you fail now, all you are is someone who’s had their finger up someone’s butt. But if you pass and graduate, then you’re a doctor who’s done a proctology exam – Anonymous med student following the male GI/GU examination

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Who’s Your Famous Blogger Twin?


Your Famous Blogger Twin is Wil Wheaton


You’re a friendly, funny guy (or girl) next door
With more than a touch of geekiness

Who’s Your Famous Blogger Twin?

Found via Dude from Philly

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Hot dog

Going for walks can be a trip now that it’s getting warmer. Being a black dog, staying out in the sun can be a bit of a problem heat wise. But she’s figured out that the darker shady areas are nice and cool to walk in. So when we’re out for walks, she makes beelines for the nearest shady area and slows down her walking. When she’s back out in the sun, her pace picks up towards the next shady spot she can see. It goes back and forth like this until the walk is done. Once we get within sight of our apartment building, the pace really picks up and if she’s got the energy left, sometimes we’ll break out into a run. And then back upstairs into a cool air-conditioned apartment and a big long slurpy drippy drink of water.