I always suspected I was missing out on something by joining the Marine Corps right out of High School, rather than going off to college. Here’s a sample of what I didn’t get to experience: The quote below is a comment left on Jeff Goldstein’s blog, apparently posted by a Law Professor at the University of Arizona! Reading through the thread, picking out this person’s posts, I was convinced this was some nutcase impersonating the good Prof., but her own blog confirms that it is indeed her handiwork. I’m dumbfounded. (Image ©opyright 2006, Arizona Daily Star)

More from the tolerant left

I do not speak for the University of Oregon or Arizona. I thought I made that abundantly clear from the get-go, but you pissants show a remarkable inability to understand what a person says.

I understand that all of your panties are in a knot because I joked about the demise of Jeff’s pathetic progeny. My point was to show you how you all tolerated comparable jokes about injury to my physical being.

Apparently, what with your frantic sissified emails to the FBI, CIA, etc. you still don’t get it.

Get a grip, you sissified bullies.

I am just trying to give you a taste of your own medicine. I am treating Jeffy boy’s offspring with the same respect that you have treated me with.

Get it?
Doubt it?
What a surprise.

You are truly a fetid, rotting, swamp of right-wing imbeciles. The sooner you are maced and/or raided, the better.

My ranting about Jeff’s pathetic progeny was an attempt to get you pathetic idiots to understand how offensive and threatening your response to me was.

I reckon the boys at the FBI will understand and track down TANG man and DAN man and the other guys who made threatening comments about me.

And this is almost certainly the mildest of her comments in that same thread. I can understand the concept of retaliatory attacks (I haven’t found where she was threatened, apparently elsewhere on the same blog), but she’s supposed to be a mature adult, responsible for the education of American youth. Dispicable.

At least there’s this:

The dept head at the UA formally accepted my resignation this afternoon.

[image:160:l] A nice view of the evening sky out my back door to test the functionality of the Coppermine -> Wordpress integration plugin. This is a beta version, but so far the integration has been fairly seamless.

[image:196:r] Ok, there seems to be a problem with the insertion script… and the layout on the “write” page is nasty; however I think it may be because I’m not using the WYSIWIG editor, which I happen to detest. I think I can fix that on my own later, though. Also looks like I need to fix some CSS foibles, as that first picture appears to be overlapped with the text.

Here comes an album:
[album:17]

You can click on any image (thumbnail, album, etc) to visit the gallery - I’m not really a photographer, so it’s a little sparse…

Problems:

1. Editor/plugin layout was whacked till I switched to WYSIWIG editor and back - now all is fine.
2. Image tags display as Thumbs
3. Quick buttons are not putting a : (colon) in front of the alignment tag
4. Options/Groups/Images buttons do nothing

Trying to find a way to offer feedback to the author before I go off to try one of the other (many) coppermine plugins.

New Note (20 Jul 07): Mr. Mist has improved on my and Simon’s work - his version can be found here, please give it a look!

NOTE: This post now contains the latest version alluded to in the comments - it can be copy/pasted from below, or downloaded in .ZIP format here.

Since moving to my new host and installing WordPress, I’ve spent a LOT of time looking at and installing plugins. One that I’m very happy to be using - after years of having to manually block and delete comment/trackback spam - is Bad Behavior. The one downside (or upside, depending on how informed you want to be!) is that it all works “behind the scenes”, and there is no easy way for the user to see what the program has been doing.

I came across the Bad Behavior Log Reader, and immediately downloaded a copy - but alas, it was written for an older version of BB. Fortunately for me, it was not complicated, and despite my complete lack of knowledge of MySQL and extremely limited (but growing daily!) knowledge of PHP, I was able to massage it into a form that works for the current version. I even added a little bit of functionality to make the output more user-friendly.

I left a comment on the original author’s board explaining this, and mentioned I’d post about it here in case anyone wanted to use and/or expand on my changes, so… with no further ado, here’s the code:

(Note: If you’d like my version of this reader, please use the download link (here’s another, if you missed the first).