http://unsilence.com Giving a voice to the military's silent minority Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:40:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have noticed a lack of updates over the past few weeks, and no word from me. The reason for this is merely that I currently don't have internet access at home. It's an issue that I'm trying to get resolved, but it's preventing me from being ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/04/08/whats-happening/ Sign-ups are temporarily on hold because a bug has appeared in the code which is preventing the creation of blogs. I'm working on getting this fixed ASAP, so please be patient and I'll re-enable signups soon. Please accept my deepest apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/03/14/registrations-on-hold/ Hot on the heels of Blueblog, a new theme is ready for immediate use: Regulus. This is a highly configurable theme with too many configuration options to list here. Once enabled, a new menu will appear under Presentation entitled "Current Theme Options." Just follow that link ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/03/10/new-theme-regulus/ A new theme is available for your use: Blueblog. This is a widgets-enabled theme with a pleasant design. There aren't a whole lot of features packed into it, but it's a very nice-looking theme that'll spruce up your blog quite nicely. Enable it the usual way by going ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/03/10/new-theme-blueblog/ There's a shiny new extra in your Dashboard for you to use. It's called "Sideblog." What this extra will do is allow you to post "asides" on your blog. If you don't already know, an aside is a small post that you deem too insignificant to take up space ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/03/09/new-extra-sideblog/ Some of you may notice that I've added a new extra today, called "Live Archives." This extra does not yet work in any themes, and it's mainly there for testing purposes while I do go through the themes to make them compatible with it. It's a great way ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/03/04/new-extra-live-archives/ I have an experimental social network set up over on Ning.com. This network is closed to the public and I will only invite people who have a blog set up here on SIU. If you'd like to check it out and help get it started, head on over to http://servinginunsilence.ning.com/. ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/02/28/an-experiment/ A new theme has been added to the site for use. It's called "Salt and Pepper." To use this theme, log into your dashboard, and click on Presentation then pick it from the list of themes on that page. http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/02/19/new-theme-salt-and-pepper/ SLDN published a post on their blog last week that SGT Bleu Copas will be receiving the 2007 Barry Winchell Courage Award. SGT Copas was discharged under DADT last January when an anonymous "tipster" informed his chain of command that he was gay. Despite the fact that ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/02/18/sgt-bleu-copas-to-receive-award/ Some interesting statistics from the New York Times (via Early Bird News): The number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds has grown about 65 percent in the last three years, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003, Department of Defense records show. During that time, the Army ... http://unsilence.com/blog/2007/02/14/army-giving-more-waivers-in-recruiting/