John L. Dilbeck's Ramblings
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Last update: 10/11/01; 18:33:20.
Thoughts and ideas as they occur to me.
Archives: 2000 2001
Thursday, October 11, 2001
I was reading Scripting News this morning and saw where Dave Winer of Userland.com had created a new macro that runs on websites on Frontier and Manila servers. This macro shows one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists on each page, and the image changes to a different terrorist each time the page is loaded. I immediately implemented that on my site at johndilbeck.editthispage.com.
6:17:06 PM
In fact, I liked the idea so much that I wanted to implement it here on JohnDilbeck.com. I decided it was worth an afternoon of work to put an image of a terrorist on a page on my website that links to the FBI page describing that terrorist. As Dave said, it's time to get to know these people and do what we can to help spread the word so they'll be identified and caught.
Since I couldn't use his macro, I decided to use a banner rotation script that is designed to rotate advertising banners on a website using a PERL cgi script. I went to CGI-Resources and found a script called ShowAndSell. It took a couple of hours to download the script, configure it to run on my server, install the pics I got from the FBI's page and set the links.
I have it running on my main index page and as I have time, I'll be installing it on just about every page on my site. Whether it will do any good or not, I don't know. Perhaps someone will see someone they recognize. I'm always surprised when I look at a Wanted list and realize that many people on the list would never draw a second glance.
There can be no more sanctuary for terrorists. ** JD **
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