Ind. Male, in a Dress, Barred From Prom

A male student who has worn women’s clothes to school all year was turned away from his high school prom because he was wearing a dress.Kevin Logan, 18, went to the West Side High School prom on Friday in a slinky fuchsia gown and heels. He believes officials discriminated against him by not allowing him inside.

“I have no formal pictures, no memories, nothing. You only have one prom,” he said.

It was the first attempt, so I can’t be too quick to judge, I guess.

Adding to my recent usage of Google’s search history, today I set up a few custom news modules to complement my barrage of Google Alerts.

When logged in, the Google news page also has a section of Recommendations based on my previous usage. Their first offering was this:

Hopefully they will get better. I wish they included all my Google Alerts. I must get about 100 of those a day on all the topics I track. For the most part, they have proven to be more valuable than my RSS feeds.

Google Notebook is awfully cool.  I’ve tried snippet gathering stuff before, but this is so much easier.  I do a lot of web research, and even in its early stage it’s a great tool.

My only problem is choosing between Yahoo and Google.  I track articles in Yahoo’s MyWeb.  I clip parts of articles to Google Notebook.  I already have a lot of stuff at MyWeb.

That’s the problem I see in using other people’s stuff.  I’m hoping eventually I’ll be able to access both easy enuff via an API or two maybees.

The other problem with Google Notebook is that I can’t share with selected people.  It’s either public or private.  I can export via a PDF, but then I lose the links, and those who see it can’t edit as well.

Could share a log-in, but then there are problems with rotating employees and a pain to log in and out all the time between work stuff and personal stuff.

In Yahoo’s MyWeb I can keep stuff to myself and share with selected people.

So I’m just using both now.  Additionally, I’ve started using Google’s custom home page, search history and bookmarks.  Browser as platform babee, I’m living it.

Looked at WordPress again recently, and thought I’d see how well I could integrate it into this site, and hopefully, save on coding time. Not sure if I saved any time. And still had to do some coding. Not too much though.

It will be an interesting balance to see if I end up thinking the shiny parts are worth what I am losing on the backend. WP takes care of many neat things like categories and editing and a control panel with many options.

But I had to sacrifice a template based system, secure comments (until I fix them later someday maybe), cached pages and modular based pages. Mainly I was too lazy to code up categories and RSS, so thought I’d use WP for something faster. I guess it could have been, but I still spent the better part of the day customizing, and really, not done yet.

Maybe this way can add some tweaks to the WP community. From first glance, looks like adding a home page module to chart blog headlines isn’t too handy. I wrote my own script. I haven’t used someone else’s script for a long time. I hope it ends up saving me time so I can go code other things.