Shadowscope

At one point in time I was running Amazon context links here but ditched them about a year and a half ago, mainly because most of the paid review companies don’t allow them. Since it’s been well over a year since I’ve done any paid posting here at Shadowscope I have re-implemented context links, using Kontera. For some reason they aren’t showing up on the main page, only in the entries themselves, which is fine right now. You’ll notice them by the double lines under the link, rather than the normal link with no line that I use. It all helps to pay for the hosting.

Now if I can just figured out why the heck it won’t work on the main index. Something to do with pagination I think, since that is no longer working either…

    <div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: left; display: block; width: 97px;"><a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/03lMfuV7Iqd0o?utm_source=zemanta&amp;utm_medium=p&amp;utm_content=03lMfuV7Iqd0o&amp;utm_campaign=z1"><img src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03lMfuV7Iqd0o/87x150.jpg" alt="UNDATED - This handout image supplied by Veriz..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="87" height="150" /></a><p class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/">Daylife</a></p></div>OS 4.7.0.114 for the Blackberry Storm has been released into the wild. Before you head over looking for links to download bear in mind that this is a beta release and can hose your storm and turn it into a brick if you screw it up.

That having been said I am currently running version .103 right now, the last official Verizon release being .75. I tend to wait a while myself and let everyone else find all of the bugs before I upgrade myself simply because my phone also doubles as my home and business line and I don’t need a non-working device if the bugs are too ugly.

If you are still interested, head over to the CrackBerry forums where you can find more information.

I’ve exported around a thousand more posts that don’t have anything to do with the subjects at hand and moved them over to my personal site. Still have a long way to go. Once I get to where it’s just the crime blog entries left I will rebuild the templates, which will make it easier to comment and log in. That may take a bit being as how I only seem to have time to work on the site once or twice a month.

    It's been quite some time since I posted over here. I've been putting all of my energy into my crime blog and now it's time to rectify that. I will attempt to start posting here at least once a day. Anyone else interested in helping out is is more than welcome to shoot me an email to rm_blogger@yahoo.com as well.

Anyhow, on to the post. Once of the places I’ve been hanging out at online since picking up my Blackberry Storm back in December is CrackBerry, and one of the folks over there has released a fun ‘game’ for the Blackberry entitled Crackberry Smash. Check out the video after the break…

Head over to CrackBerry and download it now.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Completely forgot to post this last night but here it is.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

 

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. 

This Weeks Post Was Suggested And Written By Brat

Sgt. Patrick Tainsh
33 years old from Oceanside, California
Troop E, 2nd Squadron, 2ndArmored Cavalry Regiment
February 11, 2004 




Five years ago today, Sgt. Patrick Tainsh sacrificed all as the mounted unit he
was part of was hit by an IED in Baghdad. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze and Sliver Stars saving the lives of his commanding officer and other soldiers before succumbing to his own wounds. Also killed in the attack was Pfc. William C. Ramirez from Portland, Oregon. 

On Veteran’s Day, 2007, Deborah Tainsh, Sgt. Tainsh’s mother, attended a school in Columbia, Georgia, and shared a story she had written called “A Boy Named Patrick.” 

Here is part of the story : 

…a little boy named Patrick who loved football, beaches, surfing, and
skateboarding, and especially reading. Patrick watched his dad be a Marine for
over twenty years. During this time Patrick kept reading not only surfing and
skateboarding magazines, but history books, too. One day when Patrick was a man, he told his dad and best friend, “I want to do something that will make a
difference in the world, I’m going to be a soldier.” And so he did. And in 1999
he went to Fort Knox, Kentucky for boot camp and then went to Fort Polk,
Louisiana where he worked and trained hard to become a United States Army
Cavalry Scout. Then in 2003 Patrick had to say good bye to his mom and dad
because he had to go fight a war in Iraq to protect his country, friends, and
family from terrorists and to help fight for the freedoms of the boys and girls
in that country where they and their families were treated very badly by their
country’s leader. Patrick once wrote a letter to his mom and dad telling them
that he cried for the children because they were hungry and he didn’t have food
to give them. He said he couldn’t understand how a country’s leader could treat
the people so badly and make them live in such dirty conditions with trash and
wild dogs everywhere. And so Patrick’s mom and dad keep a photo in their living
room of Patrick surrounded by Iraqi children. 

You can read the story in it’s entirety here. 

Sgt Tainsh came to the military later than some, but rose through the ranks fast. In his last letter to his parents, Sgt Tainsh shared his thoughts about his mission. And in 2006, Sgt. Tainsh’s mother wrote a book called Heart Of A Hawk about her son’s life and her and her husband’s struggles since their son was killed.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. 

I’ve been looking for a while for some way to selectively export posts from Shadowscope so that I could import them into my personal blog and finally found a plugin that would let me do so. Some of my older posts should start showing up soon and disappearing from Shadowscope. I just finished with about 300 posts and it was actually pretty painless. Since my images and stuff are in completely separate directories they may not show up properly.