Of Nobel Peace Prizes and attack submarines

February 25, 2005

At first glance it seemed a bit odd to commission an attack submarine and name it in honor of a president whose humanitarian work has been honored with a Nobel Peace Prize. This is the case with the third and most advanced Seawolf class submarine in the US Navy's fleet. With more reflection it makes sense to name a submarine for the only US President ever to be qualified in submarines. Carter graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946, serving as a commissioned officer and then as commander-in-chief while President.

Wonderful new gift to the William S. Boyd School of Law

February 25, 2005

Today is another monumental day in the short history of the William S. Boyd School of Law. The school's namesake today pledged an additional $25 million gift to the school. The gift brings current pledges to the law school to $75 million. The school will complete it's seventh year this spring. In less than a decade the generosity of Boyd and others has made it possible for a top-100 law school to be created in a state that previously didn't have a law school. It also sets the bar even higher for what people can strive for in public-private partnerships to make our educational institutions world class.

Army Aviator

February 24, 2005

Well, I graduated today. The ceremony took about 45 minutes. My Dad pinned my shiny new silver wings on my chest. (My Mom pinned on Warrant Officer rank back in March of last year). I am proud of the accomplishment and ready to move on to the next stage of my Army career. Needless to say, I am also a little bit anxious about the next stage of my journey in the "real" Army. I will continue to keep you all up to date.

Goodbye trackback spam

February 23, 2005

Regular readers may have noticed a plethora of trackback spam over the past few days. The flow should be stemmed and all back to normal. There is no need to have trackbacks per se but I like it. The problem lies in the trackback module's implementation of trackbacks as comments. They are automatically put in as published comments regardless of other settings (including the excellent spam system). By changing line 26 from:

$cid, $node->nid, 0, 0, $subject, $trackback->excerpt, variable_get('filter_default_format', 1), getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"), time(), 0, 0, '', $thread, $trackback_author, $trackback->url);

to:

$cid, $node->nid, 0, 0, $subject, $trackback->excerpt, variable_get('filter_default_format', 1), getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"), time(), 1, 0, '', $thread, $trackback_author, $trackback->url);

(It is the change of the 0 following time() to a 1 that does the trick. All trackbacks will now be put in moderation and only those you choose to publish will appear.)

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