All of a sudden it isn't as horribly hot and humid outside any more. We haven't quite gotten to the blissful time of year when it's just great out, as it's still too hot in the middle of the day and too humid all day long, but the summer heat has definitely broken. It's nice in the shade; a week ago it was awful.
In honor of this joyful annual event, I've added a weather report to the margin of the blog. Eat your heart out in January. Or come visit.
During the night, someone posted a comment to Slashdot: 'How Were You Fired?' that recounted an interesting personal story about a law firm that lied to its associates as it did economically motivated layoffs, telling the survivors that the departed were cut for quality rather than financial reasons. Eventually the poster him/herself got the chop.
It was a good read, but the poster had second thoughts after hitting the Post button and e-mailed me, asking me please to remove the item. And I just did.
I've added three items to the left column:
I have not personally checked these numbers, but they all look as if they are serious attempts to provide meaningful estimates [and in the case of the military data, a simple tally] of very gloomy data sets.
I've made a few blog enhancements by tweaking the Movable Type template. The most significant controls the way that the extended text is handled. I didn't like the way that long posts take up too much space, but nor did I like it when clicking on the extension took you to another document. Now I have one of those cute pop-in pop-out Javascript extensions. You can test it on the following line.
Many law professors dream of having a theory of constitutional interpretation attributed to them. As it happens, that was never quite exactly my dream. But if—as just happened on a mailing list for teachers of constitutional law—someone had been going to credit me with stating 'the universal insight that explains constitutional law' and even promised to “steal it and use it without remorse, giving due credit, of course,” I don't think that I'd choose to be known for blogging the 'squint theory' of interpretation.
My server, Dreamhost was more of a nightmare Tuesday evening. It was down for about an hour and half. Apologies.
If a week is a long time in politics, than by the laws of Internet time (that is, using the standard conversion formula [Real Time : Internet Time] <--> [Human Years: Dog Years]), an hour is a long time in Blogville.
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