According to Jamison Koehler, the rule on police stops in D.C. just got trickier, and it now goes something like this:If you consent to a search or conversation with police, your consent waives your rights to object to what they find or figure out. Without your consent, the police need a specific reason to detain you. If you could legally walk away from an encounter … [Read more...] about Catch-22 in D.C. Police Encounters?
Windypundit On WordPress
This is it, the new Wordpress version of Windypundit. There are lots of tweaks and changes still to come, but I think I can go ahead and make the switch now and worry about the details later.Some of you may have noticed that Windypundit was off the air for a while. Yeah, well, it turns out the switchover didn't go quite the way I planned.About a week and a half ago, the … [Read more...] about Windypundit On WordPress
Thanks For All That Food
Just had a gigantic Thanksgiving dinner at some friends' house. Filled with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and ice cream. Feeling sleepy...trying to stay awake by doing stuff on the computer...not going...to...make...it... … [Read more...] about Thanks For All That Food
Moving to WordPress – Part 3: Blogroll
I've been blogging about the experience of moving Windypundit from Movable Type to Wordpress. In Part 1, I described the process I developed for moving over all the posts. In Part 2, I talked about the development of the new Windypundit site. The one thing I still had to do was to re-create the blogroll in Wordpress. I suppose I could figure out a way to port it over like I did … [Read more...] about Moving to WordPress – Part 3: Blogroll
Moving to WordPress – Part 2: New Website
If you've been following along, you know I've given up on Movable Type as a blogging platform, and I'm moving this blog to Wordpress. In Part 1 I explained why moving 10 years of blog posts with minimal link breakage was a lot of work. Of course, I'll have to have some place to move to. Which means I'll have to design and set up another Wordpress blog. I managed to teach … [Read more...] about Moving to WordPress – Part 2: New Website