Bryan Strawser

The Americans say they have captured several of Saddam’s bodyguards, and yesterday it emerged that they believed they had come close to seizing the former Iraqi leader in Mosul shortly after the deaths of his sons last Tuesday.

Soldiers searched the nearby villa from which the call was made but Saddam was not there. US officers said the intercept was highly accurate, and they were convinced he had been hiding in the building. Yesterday they said they believed he was still in Mosul. [Times Online]

Saw Suzy play yesterday when I was out at River Highlands volunteering for the Real Job and taking in some golf and beer. She had quite the crowd following her around. Was neat to get to see her play.

Whaley Misses Cut, but Makes Most of Her Big Moment

“I wish I could explain to you how it feels to have that many people cheering for you all day long for two days straight,” Whaley said. “It’s the most wonderful feeling in the world, and it keeps you going.”

Great post by Jay Allen on fixing MT Bookmarklet’s for Safari on Mac OS X - works great!

Fixing the MT bookmarklet for Safari :: The Daily Journey :: JayAllen.org

One of the only drawbacks I have experienced in using Safari and Movable Type together is the annoyance of having to edit the javascript of the generated bookmarklet in order to make it work and the subsequent loss of ability to have selected text automatically inserted into the entry.

I wish I had been intelligent enough to register this domain in 1994. Grrr. What dreams may come.

The owner of the porn site Sex.com is legally entitled to seek damages from the company that runs the dot-com registry for improperly transferring his website to a con man, a federal appeals court ruled. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

Somehow, I simply don’t think that this would be well respected if it happened in my corporation. But would be interesting to see.

I would love to goto a conference where this is common. Dave, let me come to BloggerCon!.

NY Times: In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus. Mr. Aral discovered that he was not alone. The next day in the auditorium, which was outfitted with a wireless link to the Internet, a group of people booted up their laptops, opened their IM programs and spent the next three hours happily exchanging notes during the presentations. [Tomalak's Realm]

Good God. Shut Charles Rangel up. Please.

Or beat him in the next election. Any takers?

WERE THE HUSSEIN BROTHERS’ DEATHS AN ILLEGAL ASSASSINATION? Rep. Charles Rangel suggests so, but this seems to me to be an example of (still more) hysterical overreaching by critics of the Administration, for reasons made clear in this post by Eugene Volokh…. [Instapundit.com]

Amr posted some comments earlier today here on bryanstrawser.com and pointed to some great ideas for using MT as a complete site CMS. Very impressive stuff.

Thanks for adding to the conversation Amr.

Reading up on the possibilities to extend MT. Great article on how to extend MT titled “Beyond the Blog” (with… [RANTISSIMO]

Mr. and Mrs. A.B. (”Butch”) Strawser, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, are pleased to announce the arrival of Sadie and Katie. Sadie and Katie are recent additions to the Florida Strawsers. They join Bishop, a thirteen year old Beagle mix, who isn’t quite sure what to make of the new additions. Bishop is quite confident that if she ignores them, then they really don’t exist and will go away.