Nick Lewis: The Blog

Globalism is yesterday's tomorrow. The future is about living locally on a much smaller scale. Pepsi Cola and Exxon-Mobil are exactly the kind of gigantic enterprises that are going to wither and die over the next decade. China is not tomorrow's geopolitical colossus, it's a geopolitical super train wreck waiting to collide with the reality of its environmental devastation, population overshoot, and energy starvation. Americans will be lucky if they can do each other's laundry ten years from now, let alone sell massive amounts of soda pop to people twelve thousand miles away.

-Jim Cunstler

Its as though the UN has become a satire of itself. In 2003, the UN's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) failed to reach an agreement on how the net should be run. As a result, they setup the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)to reach an agreement. Two years later, the WGIG has announced its total failure to reach an agreement.

Clearly, the UN should now setup a Working Group on the Working group on Internet Governance (WGWGIG). Perhaps WGWGIG could do what the UN does best, and write an angry letter to WGIG. After WGWGIG "issues" its angry letter, then perhaps we could have delegates from both WGIG and WGWGIG meet to "discuss tensions" in Luxemburg. After the WGIG/WGWGIG summit, they could announce a resolution, or "less angry letter."

"Your Custom Code + Pristine Source = bitweaver! - A modular web framework and content management system with power, flexibility, and simplicity." - From Bitweaver.org

Just once, I want to see a Content Management System bill itself as being "weak, brittle, and byzantine". I'd give that CMS super-props for honesty. Power, flexibility, and simplicity is, for the CMS world, much like Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, and Easter Bunny respectively. At some point you grow up and realize they never existed, and everything you've been told by the CMS's website was a big lie.

One powerful trick to improving the way a drupal site flows is switching page templates when certain PHP arguments return true. This is a quick tutorial on how to do that.

Step One: make three copies of page.tpl.php and the name them "frontpage.tpl.php", "admin.tpl.php", and "inside.tpl.php".

Step Two: Open page.tpl.php with an editor. Erase everything.. and I do mean everything, we're building this from the ground up. (get the coffee ready)

Step Three: copy the following code into page.tpl.php:

Step Four:Test to make sure that indeed your different templates are