In cases like this one, I have mixed feelings. What you have is a case of a man who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit, but who was released because the government got the right guy eight months later. The state compensated him for $5,000 for his time lost, and nearly $19,000 for his attorney fees, and it's obvious that $5,000 is not enough compensation for that much humiliation and loss of liberty while innocent.
That said, what do you do in cases where there isn't any corruption in the process that lead to the conviction? Personally, I think the government should be required to buy a large ad in the local newspapers, and pay the local radio and television stations to broadcast the news that the innocent party was wrongfully convicted and the prosecution and police want everyone to know that they have the right person now. This is especially important in cases like child molestation cases, where people have a habit of going vigilante on the innocent and guilty alike, without regard for the truth. I remember one case where they picked on an old man who happened to live in the apartment that a child molester used to live in, and no one bothered to find out if he still lived there. (As I said before, if that were one of my relatives or just my neighbor, blood would have been spilled without mercy if they kept it up and the police didn't take care of it. In my opinion, vigilantes who get it wrong deserve to have their blood shed.)
I have updated the style sheet file a few times now, and so every default blue link should be like the rest of the links now. Either the light bluish turquoise, or the other greenish color. If you see a page where this is not the case, have refreshed it, and are still getting that problem, please post a comment somewhere and let me know what page is an example of where it is still screwed up. I'm trying to fix this up in part because I want to start up a Movable Type style gallery on my website.
Speaking of Movable Type, the RSS/Atom work that has been consuming a lot of my hobby time is nearly completed for a 1.0 beta release. I know I keep saying that, but I'm now cleaning up the code, and will probably work on playing with it on my blog tomorrow night. I just want you guys who use WordPress to know that your RSS feeds are a bit funky compared to the ones that I was used to parsing from Movable Type. Just so you guys know, I've received a few reports from WordPress users who have tried to use the WordPress exporter functionality to export their content to Movable Type, and they are reporting abysmal failure, primarily because it doesn't seem to be generating truly valid XML. I'm not sure why that is, but that's what's been said so far.
That said, what do you do in cases where there isn't any corruption in the process that lead to the conviction? Personally, I think the government should be required to buy a large ad in the local newspapers, and pay the local radio and television stations to broadcast the news that the innocent party was wrongfully convicted and the prosecution and police want everyone to know that they have the right person now. This is especially important in cases like child molestation cases, where people have a habit of going vigilante on the innocent and guilty alike, without regard for the truth. I remember one case where they picked on an old man who happened to live in the apartment that a child molester used to live in, and no one bothered to find out if he still lived there. (As I said before, if that were one of my relatives or just my neighbor, blood would have been spilled without mercy if they kept it up and the police didn't take care of it. In my opinion, vigilantes who get it wrong deserve to have their blood shed.)
I have updated the style sheet file a few times now, and so every default blue link should be like the rest of the links now. Either the light bluish turquoise, or the other greenish color. If you see a page where this is not the case, have refreshed it, and are still getting that problem, please post a comment somewhere and let me know what page is an example of where it is still screwed up. I'm trying to fix this up in part because I want to start up a Movable Type style gallery on my website.
Speaking of Movable Type, the RSS/Atom work that has been consuming a lot of my hobby time is nearly completed for a 1.0 beta release. I know I keep saying that, but I'm now cleaning up the code, and will probably work on playing with it on my blog tomorrow night. I just want you guys who use WordPress to know that your RSS feeds are a bit funky compared to the ones that I was used to parsing from Movable Type. Just so you guys know, I've received a few reports from WordPress users who have tried to use the WordPress exporter functionality to export their content to Movable Type, and they are reporting abysmal failure, primarily because it doesn't seem to be generating truly valid XML. I'm not sure why that is, but that's what's been said so far.
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