Berry Pickin'

A fun filled Sunday afternoon as Mary Lou and I took the girls berry picking at Brown's Berry Patch in Waterport, NY.  Complete with a Sunday drive as this is a fair distance from our house.  I picked nearly 3 quarts of raspberries while Mary Lou picked more than 3 quarts of blueberries.  Olivia picked better than a half a quart of blueberries, and Claire…well Claire picked about a quart of mud!  For a day that was supposed to be rainy and lousy, it really turned out to be a nice day.  Shockingly enough, this pasty whiteboy even got a bit of a sunburn.  I also got a few scratches picking the raspberries, but it was well worth it.  For the most part I was reaching in and picking 4-6 berries at a time as the bushes were loaded.  After finishing up berry picking and giving a Claire a hobo bath in the bathroom sink, we all had ice cream before heading home for the day.  Suffice to say that unlike the girls, mom and dad didn't get to nap in the car and were plenty exhausted by bedtime.

PolarBlog V1.02 Released

This is another very minor release with more work on the documentation, a bug fix for a —potential as nobody reported it— problem in the MySQL database class and one new configuration directives:

PAGE_TITLE - Allows you change the page title default of "PolarBlog" to whatever you would like.  You could have always edited the index page, but this will now make it so you don't have to edit it everytime you upgrade.

This likely will be the last update for a while as I'm now starting on the entry comments system.  Which was one of the major features that I wanted that was missing in PWL.

Government Censorship

Think the US government doesn't have years of practice in censoring the media?  Did you know that Japan "bombed" the mainland United States during World War II?  No, well neither did I until I read this article on Slate.  On one hand I can see why they wouldn't want this reported at the time, but what else have they withheld?  And why after 60 years is pretty much obscure knowledge?  Just something to ponder as go through your day.