The Rehabilitation of Moammar

Hey, I was only kidding!

On the other hand, don’t worry…

The future is safely in the hands of the young.

Stop taking the bus!

Time to wake up and smell the coffee, people.

“The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.” - Winston Chuchill

Individual efforts to stop environmental damage and catstrophic systemic changes are not going to have the desired effect. It is too late for that. The small fraction of our society that actively engages in environmentally conscious behaviours is too small, and there isn’t enough time left.

Certainly, if all you can do is take a bus to work, please do. But if you are a healthy person with an ounce of comprehension of the problems facing us, don’t stand in the acid rain, waiting for the bus to come, thinking you are contributing to a solution. You are not.

Please, drive your car to work and put the time you save in an activism/time bank account. Draw from that account to get involved with an organisation that puts pressure on lawmakers or corporations to change the larger engine of our economy. Get involved with a group that seeks to force governments to enact laws to stop the destruction in its tracks, for everyone, not just the small number of people engaged in mildly ameliorative, conscience-massaging acts of microenvironmentalism.

Think of it this way. We are in dire straits, not unlike a child drowning in a pool. The child is drowning right now. You need to save the child, not rearrange the deck chairs by the pool so the child doesn’t trip and fall into the pool. Get it? We are engaged in half-measures. Not even half-measures. The efforts we are making today are a pittance. Teardrops on a raging bonfire.

The time you burn in quarter-measures trying to avert a disaster that has already happened is just allowing the disaster to more fully unfold. Please read this and get involved.

And yes, take that ‘79 Chrysler out of storage. One day it will be illegal and you won’t have to worry about making the right choice for the environment.

infidel

In a serious mood tonight…

Drupal: Sign-up Module - more than meets the eye

I must have looked at the signup.module a half dozen times and thought, why would I want anyone to sign-up for a node when we already have notify.module? Turns out I just wasn’t getting it, and I suspect many others are not as well. The description of the module is very poorly written in terms of communicating its functionality.

The fact is that this little module is a nascent registration system for any number of purposes. It integrates with the events calendar, and you can add a custom registration/sign-up form as an attachment to any event notice or other type of post that encourages sign-up or registration. You do this using the signup.theme file which is at the root of the module directory.

You can alter this user signup form to suit your needs–feel free to alter any elements in this section, remove them, or add any others. In order for the form to be rendered properly, the name of the form element must be in the form of $form['signup_form_data']['NameOfDataField'], where NameOfDataField is replaced with the actual name of the data field. It’s also suggested that the displayed name of the field to the user be the same as the name of the data field, but it’s not required. See below for examples. Note that the example below is meant as a starting template only, and none of these form fields were designed to integrate with existing drupal fields. If that is desired, it will need to be coded.

@return An form array which is the form to be present to the user upon signup to a node

in addition, The 4.6 version appears to integrate with the e-commerce module to allow for payments, though I haven’t tested this yet. The 4.7 version does not do this from what I could see.

Thanks to Amazon (Kieran Lal from CivicSpace Labs) for the tip.

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