if you can see me now, things are better mayyyybeee whooo whooo ...

i've upgraded the site to drupal 4.7.6, and as usual I've forgotten to save the one-line changes to the .css so i'll have to go get them.

other: tried aggregate_node, which when pointed at wampum added 500 or so rss entries as published nodes. interesting, but not what i was expecting.

fix: mysql> use; dru_cfm; delete from node where type="aggregator_node"; or something proximal.

Lu Bauer and David Bright have set up Dennis Kucinich's announcement for tomorrow in Portland next door to MECA at 81 Free Street.

I've upgraded mysql from 4.1.x to 5.1.x, and php from 5.1.x to 5.2.x.

The first exposed a bug in my head, so I RTFM ("F" == "fine") and did the right thing, go back to the 4.1 database, import it to 5.0 version of mysql, then to a 5.1 version. In passing I'd also made another error, involving the civicrm database, which I've also corrected.

The second exposed a bug in drupal, having to do with how session state (login status) is kept, so I upgraded from drupal-4.7.4, which has this not so charming feature, to drupal-4.7.x-dev, which is fixed.

It was a problem that I don't control the mainecommonwealth.com zone, or the www. subzone, as I could have hidden my errors more quickly on a machine I've not yet upgraded, and looked, well, not as wicked dumb.

In a parallel universe, les Verts are conducting their primary for the 2007 presidential in a three-week long mail-in ballot, and on the ballot are Yves Cochet, Député de Paris (14ème arrondissement, my old neighborhood), and Dominique Voynet, Sénatrice de la Seine-Saint-Denis (Ile-de-France). Cochet is the ecologist, a "noniste" and in the "décroissance" (anti-growth) camp. Voynet was also a "noniste" on the neo-liberal European Constitution. He's got "work". She's got "hope". That's an interesting choice.

Peeling the onion from Abramoff we get to Norquist then the "non-profit" think tanks and front groups, the cloud of 501(c)(3) and 527 entities he helped create, to Exxon/Mobil, BP, Edision Electric Institute, National Petrolium Association, National Mining Association, Dow Chemical, and my personal favorite, Koch Industries [owns GP mill].

1. pervasive change of url (dump db, edit .sql s/old/new/g, drop db, creat db, load db)
2. update httpd.conf entries (docroot, directory directive)
3. upgrade to rc4
4. install civiCRM v1.4 (a big data and action win)
5. reapply change to include/menu.inc
6. reapply change to logo (get goat)
7. install TinyMCE editor (a big UI win)

click on "enable rich-text" below the Body: box. Also, click on the html area in the rich-text footer menu.

The switch from the original (static) website to the current (dynamic) website took place this evening. The steps were:

1. dns a record change
2. add vhost entry on gaining apache server
3. dump database
4. edit sql dump: test_db_name -> prod_db_name, test_dns_name -> prod_dns_name
5. copy/modify drupal site configuration file (see above, two lines)
6. create empty prod_db
7. load tables into prod_db

And point a browser at www.mainecommonwealth.com ... finis.

Remaining issue -- a big one -- is figure out how the table-rich text from the old index.html interacts (poorly) with the three-column format.

Two years ago MB and I took the kids tent camping at Coobscook Bay State Park. MB took the clam rake and worked the flats and we had soft shell clams to go with our corn.

Last years alge bloom kept us from claming. This year's is likely to close a lot of the clam flats.

I grew up on the coast of California, and spent my high school years doing a biological survey of Whaler's Cove, Point Lobos, with a group of people. Our work lead to the establishment of the first marine preserve in the United States. My bit was spending a lot of field time with my head more or less under a rock, under water, counting everything in a 1m square, and lab time counting everything in a drop of water, mapping the photo and phyto plankton in the water column.

This is circa, well, pre-re-demise of the Portland Phoenix (June 17 - 23, 2005). There are three "pages" plus a boxed code on the BRAC. Some of this is useful. Some not, though it will be in the general.

Bad news for Baldacci
Opinion polls have him below a 50-percent approval rating for the first time. Will his spaghetti-supper campaigning skills be enough for him to reconnect with voters?
BY LANCE TAPLEY

Suddenly, John Baldacci’s political fate is on the line. Two recent opinion polls show his public support to have declined dramatically. For the first time, more people think our first-term Democratic governor is doing a bad than a good job. The numbers have plunged from 60- to 70-percent-plus job approval to around 40 percent. He is most unpopular in the northern part of the state, his home stomping grounds.