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Site News

Content Complete

All the old website content going back to 2003 has been imported now, along with all the comments.  The only downside to adding in about 885 entries is that a full site publish takes about 15 – 20 minutes.

On a related note, Movable Type really needs to update their import documentation.  The import format is FAR more strict than the examples make it appear.  For instance, the BODY: key cannot containing any trailing spaces.  Same thing with the COMMENT: key.  These two issues forced me to have to reload the entries several times before all the data would load completely.

Still, with that out of the way, I’m free to get back to blogging.

P.S.  What’s the point of a Backup and Restore functionality that doesn’t actually have the ability to Restore?

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Rutgers

No Thank You, Notre Dame

Rutgers said no to Notre Dame last week about a potential Rutgers – Notre Dame six game football series, due to the location and ticket sales arrangements that would be required.

 “Rutgers entered discussions about a possible long-term series with
Notre Dame, but at the end of the day both schools could not agree
about the site of the games,” said Rutgers Director of Athletics Robert
E. Mulcahy III.  “We feel Rutgers’ home games should be played
on-campus in Rutgers Stadium.”

Today the NY times had a great column on the situation, providing more context on why the series failed to materialize and how Rutgers refused to kowtow to the mighty Notre Dame.

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Site News

Old Content

I’ll be trying to extract and load all my old entries in to the new system later tonight, so there may be some strange behavior on the site during that time.  Stay tuned for more.

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Work

Tough Day at Work

Today was a tough day for my employer.  News of two FDA Not Approvable letters came out; the first about our Schering Plough Joint Venture product combining Singulair and Claritin and the second about our extended release Niacin table called Cordaptive.

I’m surprised by both and am curious considering no reasons have been identified yet that I’ve read for the rejections. Plus, as a user of both Singulair and Claritin, it would be a huge boon to only have to purchase and take one set of pills, not two.  Hopefully the JV will get the FDA to re-evaluate.

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Site News

RSS Feed Has Changed

Please note that with the new setup, the RSS feed has changed.  Use the subscribe link in the bottom lower left to subscribe to the new feed.

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Site News

What to Expect

So after about an hour of playing around with this system, I’m impressed by the functionality that’s been made available.  Certainly there are a lot more options than my old home-grown rinky dink setup offered.  With that in mind, though, I’m left with three major pieces of work.

1.  Get all my old content imported in to the system.  Easier said than done, since it’s not exactly in the right format.  Somehow, over the next week or two, that is site priority number one.

2.  Get off these horrible default style templates.  They may work as a short-term alternative, but they are NOT pretty.  Not that I’m a web design genius, but something a little more personal goes a long way.

3.  Start blogging again. 🙂

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Site News

The Migration is On

Here I am, now on Moveable Type with all the associated fun and joy of trying to adjust to a new system.  I finally figured that, having shown I could build a basic blog system, it was solely hubris that was keeping me from switching to a standard blogging platform.  So I took the plunge and set this up as part of a change to my hosting platform.  Hopefully I’ll get this whole thing settled down in the next few days and then I can focus on writing instead of configuration settings.

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Site News

Server Migration

Long time no write. I’m just dropping in to leave a brief message that sometime over the next week I’ll be moving servers around. As a result, the site might be offline from time to time while I get the new config set up.

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News

NJ Moves to Abolish Death Penalty

I’m amazed and happy, actually, that NJ is moving to abolish the death penalty. I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of state-sanctioned capital punishment. The deterrence effect has been debated and in my mind remains inconclusive, although the punishment is so rarely applied I doubt it is significant. The idea of state-supported revenge strikes me as a gross misuse of the criminal justice system, whose purposes should not be to merely satisfy the need for “old world justice”. And finally the idea of those who are innocent being deprived of their lives leaves is purely unacceptable.

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Personal

Lillian Pair Gets Six Years in Jail

Sentencing finally concluded for Lillian Pair over her embezzlement of funds from her concrete business (the charge, technically, was wire fraud investigated by the FBI since money was wired from NJ to SC). She’s been sentenced to six years in a federal prison and restitution, which will include the seizing of her house.

The Post & Courier in Charleston has more.