PolarLava::Blog

A few weeks back I came across this article about a Ukrainian that hasn't slept in 20 years!  Color me skeptical, but if true this would be oh so cool.  Think about reclaiming 48-64 hours every week of your life (based on 6-8 hours of sleep per night).  I'd be thrilled if I could adapt to living with only 4 hours a night.  That would net me 14-28 hours a week of extra time.  Knowing my luck my kids would adapt also only to monopolize my new found extra time!

PolarBlog V1.5.2 (Groundhog) has been released.  This release primarily addresses a potentially major database corruption problem related to entry comments.  Additional fixes have also been implemented…

Enhancements

• Added new MAIL_SUBJECT_COMMENT and MAIL_SUBJECT_REPLY language tags to better support non-english users needs.

• Comment Deletion - A very serious bug exists in PolarBlog V1.5.0 & V1.5.1 whereby deleting a single comment will destroy all root level comments.  This in turn will cause an incorrect comment count to display, but no comments to be displayed.  This very serious problems was the result of array ID data being mishandled in the DB class.  This problem has been corrected by fixing the handling of nested arrays within the DB class when using SafeSQL.
• Non-English versions were unable to delete users or topics since the V1.3.0 localization updates.  Anyone who is not using the standard polarblog.php file needs to merge these changes with their modified version.
• Comments now respects USE_WORD_COUNT option added in V1.3.0.
• The default COMMENT_DATE_FORMAT directive has been updated in config.php.dist.  This was required due to the localization changes implemented in V1.3.0.  This value is now also used to format the "Created" date when editing users.
• The query problem with a SafeSQL error when attempting to add/edit users has been resolved.  The query is again running under SafeSQL.  As it turned out this was a misunderstanding on the usage of SafeSQL with data that conflicts with the parsing parameters.
• The BASE_URL was missing from entry auto-links and has now been added.

• None

Caught Up Inside

It's lonely and dark outside
Not much different on the inside
Sometimes I just stop and wonder why
Is there any reason why?
So many people can laugh while others cry?

There's somethings on the inside
That just want to be let free
Can't see no reason why
Some will live, and some will die
It's all caught up inside
Not quit knowing right
It's all caught up inside, of me

Not much to say today
It's a cold typical day
Just as a rat runs to hide
The cat jumps aside to wait
Another blood hungry fool
Me and you derailed like a train
By the systems powerful overrule
They'll never change
It's just typical of these days

1/22/1982

The boy inside this man would love to have one of these spherical treehouses!  Might just be a step towards that cycling-geek-hermit lifestyle which appeals to me on occasion.

The Entity III: Life Forms

"As I float downward through the darkness, I see the millions of points of white light.  Each one represents a life, a being, an existance.  All with their own form…"

You will survive, I can survive
They will revive, it will go on now
Something's missing, but it's all there
There will be life forms, to use the air

1/7/82