We watched the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in this 08-08-08 edition in Beijing – spectacular, as I’m sure you’ve all seen … we missed the start (there will be many opportunities later; this exhibition must have been canned in every medium available and i’m sure we’ll see many replays).

Then I recalled this handy reference to the antipodes, in Wikipedia – and collected this map. It appears that from here, central Argentina (31.95 South, 64.56 West *) we are exactly at the opposite side of the planet. So: digging straight down, through the core get us within a few miles of the Stadium – with some correction, our tunnel could emerge within the boundary and save us the cost of the entrance tickets – I suppose there are tickets, and that they must be pretty well sold out by now.  The hole will have to be a mere  12, 742 kilometers … ah – deep? High? Both? Across!  Not too bad.  I will start digging presently – meanwhile, enjoy The Games.

Q

*Latitude and Longitude coordinates have been slightly modified: they actually belong to an obnoxious neighbor, so if any of you have a cruise missile handy … but please advise ETA as I’d hate to miss the fireworks -  if I’m not too far down on my way  to China

 OK, that image was done in Microsoft Windows Exolorer. The post immediately before was with Firefox, my default (and preferred) browser. I had gone into Site Admin > Settings > Writing-settings and unchecked “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” . I thought I was dung frying (that’s ‘doing fine, by the way, in spellunker checker) but alas, not so: Next time around the darn problem came up again. So this is in IE – and seems to be working. Oh well, if anyone knows anything about this, please don’t heitsate to comment. Comment anyway! Q’s place is welcome to all.

Q

Not uploading images (again)

This is the script that leads to the error:

/ send html to the post editor
2function send_to_editor(h) {
3 var win = window.opener ? window.opener : window.dialogArguments;
4 if ( !win )
5 win = top;
6 tinyMCE = win.tinyMCE;
7 if ( typeof tinyMCE != ‘undefined’ && ( ed = tinyMCE.getInstanceById(‘content’) ) && !ed.isHidden() ) {
8 tinyMCE.selectedInstance.getWin().focus();
9 tinyMCE.execCommand(‘mceInsertContent’, false, h);
10 } else
11 win.edInsertContent(win.edCanvas, h);
12}

And this is the error message:

win.edInsertContent is not a function
[Break on this error] win.edInsertContent(win.edCanvas, h);

Is there anyone out there that knows what’s going on? I am missing something. The problem is sporadic, and this was a 35K JPEG picture.

Q