PolarLava::Blog

So this past week at work I was voted as the new company MVP.  This "honor" is voted on by all of the employees from anonymous nominations, also from my fellow employees.  And what is it?  It's for an "Outstanding individual contribution to the success of the company".  Personally I call it "doing your job".  But in any case, I will take the extra day off that goes with it along with the crown, belt and scepter…although I could do without this tremendous piece of image editing by my boss plastered on our intranet:

It's good to see that the IOC has their head in the sand much like the RIAA and MPAA.  They're preventing blogging for nearly all athletes, with only a few exceptions.  Always good to see another establishment trying to prevent progress.  God knows you can't hear an athlete's story through unsanctioned channels.  Nope.  Wouldn't want to hear it from the horses mouth.  It might just end up being a very truthful and frank assessment of their experience.  Good to see that the IOC is playing the part of the horse's ass!

Well, one out of one bear surveyed says to drink the good stuff and leave the swill for others.  Apparently by downing 36 of them, he doesn't completely subscribe to the old adage "Quality over quantity" but rather to "Quantities of (marginal) quality".  I don't really consider the Pabst brewed Rainier to be a quality brew either, but given the choice, the bear made the right choice!

I've released PolarBlog V1.01.  This is a very minor release that augments the documentation and adds two new configuration directives:

USE_LOGIN_LINK - Allows you have the Administration menu displayed all the time in the control panel.  When you are not logged in, a "Login" link is the only thing in the menu.  Once logged in, the standard administration options are displayed minus this new Login link.

DOCTYPE - This allows you to choose between HTML Transitional, HTML Strict, XHTML Transitional and the default XHTML Strict DTD's.  For those who don't care to maintain an XHTML Strict site, you now have an option that relaxes the burden on you.  Of course mine (usually) remains that way, but I'm sure not all of you are as anal about these things as I am!

I've cleaned up both my Links and RSS Feeds pages.  On the Links page there were several links that I don't use anymore.  And on the RSS page about half the feeds weren't being used so I trimmed that back to a handful that I do use.  That page was more of an exercise in accessing RSS feeds anyway.  Some of the security related feeds have now been put back onto the Links page.  You really needed to know this, didn't you!  ;)