A few weeks ago, a report

hit the news
on the U.S. Geological Survey report on lack of monitoring of U.S. volcanos.
Most of the new reports focused on the fact that Yosemite moved up to
number 26 in the list of volcanos most likely to do something.

Well, I read the report and I did notice that, for me, the real news was that the
top four volcanos in the U.S. that are most likely to do something are Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Mt Hood and South Sisters. These are all mountains you can see on a clear day from here in Portland.

It adds a little interest having volcanos in your yard.

I finally took the plunge and upgraded
WordPress to 1.5.1.
That necessitated finding the little hacks I put in.
In particular (I’m writing this here so I can find it next time), in
wp-include/default-filters.php, I remove the wpautop
from the_content and the_excerpt.
This causes these pages to be displayed with the html in them.
Could be dangerous but the html is filtered when it’s entered so the problem is
minimal. Someday I’ll submit a change that will allow specifying whether the
comment should be formatted. This was one feature I really missed from MovableType –
the ability to mark individual entries with a format or not flag.

Anyway, I’m upgraded so now I get to figure out how to handle all these new features.

For anyone visiting this site to find out why I’m sending viruses around the net, it looks like this domain name is included in some virus package and there seem to be several zombies sending out viruses with a “From:” line pointing to this domain. It’s usually from somebody “@misterblue.com”.

Needless to say, it’s not me. Curse all you virus writers. You make the world miserable for the rest of us for a minimal, short-term benefit for yourself. What selfish dolts.