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Drupal Dilatant: How to Add Additional Stylesheets to Drupal 6x

I am not a techie. So maybe that’s the problem. But I can swear that time and time again I read material meant to teach about Drupal development that actually confuses me more.

Drupal Dilatant: How to Disable a Module if You Can't Pull Up Your Modules Page

Scenario: You just found the module you’ve been wishing for years, the one that is going to reduce your Drupal maintenance work to almost nothing!

DrupalDilatant: Getting rid of Dreaded Register_Globals Error During Drupal Updates and Installations

I think it was as of Drupal 5 that I started getting register_globals error whenever I tried to do a manual install (not through Fantastico) or update database after install by running update.php file

DrupalDilatant: Forwarding to Drupal Installed in Subdirectory

I prefer installing Drupal in a subdirectory.

  • It makes upgrades much easier
  • Keeps your root directory less crowded and therefore easier to decipher and maintain

Letter to Blockbuster: Bye-bye Goliath

Blockbuster’s penchant for greed and arrogance is apparent once again — this time in the highly-competitive field of DVD rentals by mail.

Vote Obama

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Story Idea: Crossroads of AIDS, Roses and Multinational Corporations

Copyright, 2006: Ali Torkzadeh 

When you buy a rose in the streets of Paris or London, you might be buying the product of poor, HIV-positive Kenyan men and women laboring for unbelievably low wages on corporate farms that decimate the environment and do next to nothing about the AIDS crisis that is killing their workers.

Children of Nazis: "Jews were the real heroes"

Monika Goeth, daughter of Amon Goeth — the Plaszow Concentration camp commandant who would randomly shoot Jewish laborer

Depose and Conquer

I must confess that I put down this fine book with a feeling of deep disheartenment. For what, after all, is the point of such meticulously reported studies if the American public is repeatedly going to wipe such episodes from its collective consciousness, and the American establishment is going to make similar mistakes over and over again, first in the cold war and now in the "war on terror" — each time covering its actions with the same rhetoric of spreading "freedom" and combating "evil"?-- ANATOL LIEVEN

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