This is a small website. The number of pageviews a month can be counted in the low tens-to-hundreds. The amount of traffic this page receives or would not receive today isn't even a concern. To that end, I don't know there was any impact to this website's traffic by using the script that redirected browsers to SOPAStrike.

Today was about showing support for and trying to educate about the need for sensible copyright laws in the US.

SOPA and PIPA, in the current forms, risk the crushing of a number of forms expression via the Internet. Yes, some of these forms of expression are questionable in their adherence to US copyright law. Some forms of expression utterly disregard copyright as well as concepts of fairness and fair use.

Yet the amount of content and conversation on the Internet that IS covered by fair use and in compliance with US copyright law that would be at risk is significantly larger body of work. And this is free speach.

Today we went to go see The Muppets. It's been something that we've been meaning to do since it was released.

What can I say, Muppets have been a part of both Natalie's and my life as long as either of us can really remember. And Muppets are fun.

The movie is pretty much what you would expect from a mid-70's-to-early-80's reintroduction/reboot movie. There were things about the orignial Muppets where they made fun of themselves and some of the things that they did in the original TV run or the earlier movies. There were a number of storylines that they hinted to but didn't address as completely as I thought they could have. Most of these had to do with how some of the Muppets get to where they are when they are first found in the story. I don't want to really do any spoilers, and this isn't really a movie review. More a follow up on the previous post. Honestly, this is a Disney movie.

Happy New Year!

May 2012 be better than the disaster everyone seems to think 2011 was.

I'm having a strange problem where some of the blog posts are showing up in the views that run the front page, but the content is available. Not really sure what is going on, but it's rather weird that I can see everything, except when I'm in the views. Hopefully I can fix it quickly. In fact, this post is part of a test to see if it's affecting all new content. Drupal 6 using Views.

Update: I've fallen back to not using views and panel for the front page, but the problem isn't views or panels, it's the node listing for Anonymous users. Still trying to work through it. Enjoy the mess in the meantime.

Updated 2: It took almost 10 days but I believe the problems are fixed. There still may be some broken functionality, but at least the content is back. Looks like it may be a problem with one of the Drupal modules.