Yep you read that right Hosting Provider BoundGrid.Net will provide auto install of dasBlog.

I am proud to announce that we have negotiated with BoundGrid to provide to new and existing hosting accounts the option to have dasBlog installed automatically for them! BoundGrid is the hosting provider for the dasBlog.us forums and dasblog.info documentation site! They are very reliable and inexpensive!

Sticks and Stones, a video that has been lost in the ashes of pre Internet days (1992) and is no longer available anywhere else is presented here with permission. My son Cameron was one of the actors, and Larry Turner the Director is a family friend.

The video is 12 minutes long, and uses streaming flash (FLV), all but the slowest connections should be ok.

Larry Turner, a graduating senior at Colonel White High School (1993) in Dayton Ohio, won the first place award of $500 and a $3,000 scholarship in the National Scholastic Art Competition for Film and Video. His film "Sticks and Stones", which deals with sexual abuse, child pornography and teen-age prostitution, also won the top prize in the Ohio Governor's Art Exhibition in May 1993. He received his award from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.  Larry has many other movies and awards to his credit.

A current link related to Larry's efforts can be found at http://tattooboymovie.com

Announcement: http://dasBlog.us User Forums now active.

In attempt to encourage more user community collaboration in support of the opensource "DasBlog" blogging software project the subject forums have been created. The forums at SourceForge are now depreciated.

Please support your DasBlog community, links back to your DasBlog support entries are encouraged!

The documentation is at the htp://dasblog.info and the Development team still resides at SourceForge.

Link: Officials fear base jobs at risk

I have been talking to a lot of DOD management teams at Wright Patterson AFB over the last few months and I have been saying for months to whom ever would listen that there is a stealth effort to continue to move jobs from Dayton (specifically DSFG) to Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, and to OSSG in Montgomery AL.

There is a lot of smoke in this story, major contracting changes in the DSFG, and acquisition philosophy changes... this story is still unfolding. Glad to see Dave Hobson is looking into it!

This article just proves my intelligence work was on the money!

This is a little flash mp3 player, I didn't code it, but I did mod it to add mp3 file tag reading!

It now displays track title and artist/album. Also, the original was designed for inclusion in a full flash page with draging. I modified it to be a stand alone mini player. 

Due to www delays sometimes you need to hit the song button a second time to get the tag data! (Iwill look into that problem some day???)