Epic Guide|Mostly Harmless

WordPress Merges with Textpattern, announced just this morning on WordPress.org. It will now be called WordPattern, and can be found at http://www.wordpattern.org.

This is a huge deal, helping position WordPress in the with the top blog tools like Blogger and MovableType (MT). I love Word Press and have used it for more than 8 of my own clients, so this really pleases me.

On behalf of the WordPress community, I’m proud to announce a merger we’ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen’s dog — WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. “WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.” - WordPress.org

Our friend Aaron Finfrock passed away this week.  I and hundreds of people paid tribute to Aaron’s life.  I was moved by his family and friends’ show of love of his life.  I think that some things in life are truly sacred, one of them is death, because I believe that in death we all have a renewed life with God.

With that said, I am absolutely disgusted by out local paper, the Press Enterprise.  I found a nice obituary about Aaron on PE.com, which was disgustingly used as media for advertising space. I’m alright with banner ads and that sort of thing, but placing text ads links (flowers, gift shop, donate)  right in the body of the article, that’s wrong. Would I like to buy something when I’m reading a tribute to the life of a young man?  Who would want to buy something in an obiturary? How can death be used to directly make money?

I guess the Press Enterprise is exactly what its name is, Enterprise of the Press.  We know the “Press” isn’t much more than the presentation of some bias view of something, but rarely do we really see what the press is, the bias of money over ethics.

I will never, as long as I live subscribe to the Press Enterprise.

Google does it again, and blows us out of this world. Google has sent its search engine software to Mars, well…. at least they have a cool map of Mars.

I like talking about Google and our world. Like my last theory that Google and Yahoo are going to be the fall of China, Google has taken it’s Google Map software and inserted a topographical map of Mars.

It’s pretty cool and you can even see where the spacecraft have landed, check it out at http://www.google.com/mars/

I’m not one to give praise to Al Jazeera often, but I don’t want the rest of the world to be ignorant either.  The official website for the Anti-American network is the dot net, not the dot com.  So the next time you try to bring down the website with an American brut force attack, make sure it is http://www.aljazeera.net, you’ll know your in the right place because it wont be in English.

What does Al Jazeera mean?  The Peninsula in Arabic.

So, I was in class, yesterday. I gave my kick-ass presentation with my group.

This 40+ year old know-it-all says, “I like your print job, but your presentation had too much information.”

I said, “I just bought a new printer.”

So, it’s his turn to do his presentation. He absolutely blows it. Not only did it suck, he had too much information, it didn’t work, he spent too much time doing a scary video advertisement… it goes on and on and on. His own group was about to shoot him.

So after all of this pathetic stuff, the guy asks the class if he could put his personal website up on the screen so we could all review it and fill out a questionnaire.

So, here it is, http://www.phantombones.com, it’s a bit scary, but if you manage to look around the odd content, you’ll notice something………..

It really is apparent when you look at my company website, that I personally designed, http://www.redfusionmedia.com

So what do you think? I’m flattered, he stole my website, and not only that, I get to fill in his questionnaire.

Question 8a). What do you think of the navigation?

My answer. I rate it a 10, because I designed it and I know it is perfect, see more at www.redfusionmedia.com.

So at least I got that going for me. That’s my story and I’m sticking too it.

NEW YORK — Paul Tagliabue is retiring as NFL commissioner in July after more than 16 years on the job.

The 65-year-old commissioner has led the league since 1989, when he succeeded Pete Rozelle, and had recently signed a two-year contract extension to complete the television and labor deals.

He finally got that done 12 days ago, finishing the most arduous labor negotiations since the league and union agreed on a free agency-salary cap deal in 1992. - ESPN

I think that Tagliabue has done a great job.  Starting with the keeping the league together though some tough negotiations over the last few player deals.  He also needs to be commended for the toughest drug programs in all of sports.  It is great the NFL hasn’t had the same sort of issues as Major League Baseball.

A great piece of art, the real look at American taxes. This is a great visual look at how much our government spends. I’m not surprised at the military spending, that is to be expected during a war, and after 911. It is much more disgusting how much our country spends on entitlements, so take a look.

Click on the Death and Taxes artwork to see a larger view.

Our best friend, T.O., Terrell Owens finds himself a new team. I will always remember the good old “place the ball on the star” move. It was always better than the “Sharpe” thing, and a lot better than the crap T.O. dished out to Philadelphia. The final word, Owens will help the Cowboys, and I think he’s tired of being the bad boy. Here’s a good ESPN story on T.O.

Basketball - man, the more I watch basketball, the more I wonder, “what am I doing with my time?” We’ll at least I didn’t pick Kansas to go deep. I do think that the Gonzaga guy is pretty good, and I have them going deep.

Brett Favre, I love the guy, but I think that he will retire.

Baseball - I’m tired of the World Baseball League of “Don’t Try To Hard”. How can they call themselves American when they lose to a bunch of teams, Canada, Korea, Mexico, and we stole a game from Japan. They don’t want to loose there pay check, but they don’t mind loosing respect.

Canada? How the hell do we loose a baseball game to Canada? Give me a break!

I love this photo of a USC cheeleader celebrating Texas’ touch down, especially with like 1000 people behind her saying “what the $%9%@ just happened?

Epic Guide’s coverage of the Ferrari Enzo on PCH, you can read the previous posts, Million-Dollar Ferrari Crashes in Malibu. More Twists and turn in the Malibu Crash

A videotape apparently shot from inside the rare $1 million Ferrari that crashed in Malibu last month may shed new light on who was actually driving the speeding sports car, it was reported Thursday - North County Times
The sources said that Ferrari owner Stefan Eriksson and the other man in the car, identified by authorities as Trevor Karney, had a video camera rolling as they raced on Pacific Coast Highway on the morning of Feb. 21 at speeds in excess of 162 mph. - KTLA

• Get the Facts about the Ferrari Enzo Crash

• Watch the Ferrari Crash Video