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Some links I’ve had for a while but didn’t blog: SF writer Bill Shunn
points out Rent my Chest, on
which he advertised
recently for his upcoming book Missionary
Man. The ad is an interesting (if weird) concept, the
only downside being that to shouldersurfers in your cubicle at work it
looks vaguely like gay porn, all these pictures of a [...]
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In and around my browsing for John Waters stuff, I found links for
actresses in his stable Mink
Stole and Mary Vivian
Pearce. I thought it was kind of interesting to find out that Mary
works as a bicycle messenger.
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Wowza. In and around an idle workplace discussion we were talking
about colocation services. Several guys here at work have
rackspace.com accounts for their goofy side projects (I just have an
ordinary account at Hurricane Electric, they rent the whole box) and
that led to a link to this site that
compares webhosting services. You can do advanced queries based [...]
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I did a little more work with Struts today. Finally, by
watching the log files I was able to figure out where I was going
wrong. This is a tricky ass thing to work with. If your config files
are not correct, it will fail without giving any sort of sensible
error message at the front end. The web [...]
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Yet another entry in the cool stuff related to RSS and content
aggregation is nntp//rss which is a
bridge between RSS and NNTP (kind of stands to reason from the name,
no?) This allows you to read RSS syndicated feeds with your news
reader and vice versa, lets you post to your weblog via same (for
systems that use the [...]
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I’m not sure how I missed it, but I had never seen David Rees’ weird
clipart cartoons until yesterday. It’s now my favorite current comic strip.
I read a bunch of the
Get your War on strips which are mostly in the “almost too close to
reality to be funny” camp. My absolute favorite, though is this strip
from [...]
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In an amongst some random browsing prompted by the Independent Spirit
Awards, I browsed a little for one of my favorite film directors, John
Waters. I turned up a few links, the funniest of which is this one, an
article about John Waters
as Baltimore’s man of the year. I also found Dreamland News, a fan site
and Atomic Books, [...]
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Again with PNH, this time a post comparing and contrasting war
rhetoric entitled How
to Talk like a Leader.
Years ago, I was a mediocre beginning bass player. One night at the
Wreck Room as I was watching local band No Walls playing, I marvelled
at super-bassist Hank Schroy and thought “If I practice 8 hours a day
the rest [...]
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While just looking at Teresa’s blog a minute ago gathering the link
for the previous post, I saw her link to an amazing blog. I had read
this one a while back and forgotten about it but she reminded
me of it. It is a blog from
an Iraqi kid. Here is an excerpt from shortly before the “war” [...]
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A few people I know have started blogging lately. I think its not so
much a “fad” per se but just the example of seeing other people do
it. It just kind of makes sense to have this forum for stuff about
you, a place to vent when you need it and for your friends to check up
on [...]
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Last night we went to a dinner party, so I couldn’t spend as long
working with this Linux box as I’d have liked. I found almost
everything in my lost+found directory, so all my little scripts and
stuff are back where they belong. Just in finding what I needed there
(mostly by grepping for words I knew were in [...]
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Damnit! I had a disk corruption last night, which has really screwed
up my linux box. I was able to restore all the big files, like
projects and the such. What is killing me is all the little scripts,
.emacs files, .bashrc and all the gazillion little customizations that
are gone. This learns me from not backing up. Before [...]
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I’ve been trying to get started using Struts for my JSP/Servlet
work. I’ve been farting with this for a week and I still find it
incredibly difficult to actually do things with it. It is very ticky
about how you configure it, and the slightest deviation will cause it
to silently not work right. Well, not quite silently but [...]
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Long back in the mists of time, back in 1994, I first started using
the WWW. One of the first, possibly *the* first site I browsed
regularly (and this is back with lynx, mind you) was that of Steve Jackson Games Daily
Illuminator. SJG is of note in the cyberworld as being the victims
of the Secret Service’s raid [...]
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Another interesting entry in the “manage your data sweepstakes” is Hep. It appears to be
similar to Zoe in some regards but it has a number of protocols it
works with, and accepts input from them. For example, you can mail to
it and have that posted to a weblog or have a jabber message go to
your weblog. [...]
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I continue being depressed. Right now I should be getting ready for
work but I just sit on the couch like a lump. So many aspects of my
life and the world are so far from how I want them, I have to fight
hard the urge to just shut down. I’ve been listening to ever more
Everclear. These [...]
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I have decided that my opinions don’t matter much in the scheme of
things on our war with Iraq. I’m not going to say much else about it,
other than to link to pieces that say what I think but in ways better
than I could. Here is Robert Wright in Slate suggesting what might be
long term consequences [...]
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I have done a little more work with SpamAssassin rules. I got a
flurry of obvious spam that was getting through all my stuff with very
negative (ie, non-spam) scores. What they were doing was adding in
Pine headers, Outlook headers, Mozilla headers, etc. All of those
things have negative scores in SA, so it triggered a lot of [...]
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I really feel depressed, angry, sad and generally upset and hinky. At
points I feel like crying, at other I feel like smacking people upside
the head with aluminum baseball bats. That’s how it goes when in a
very short time your dad dies, your country rushes headlong into an
unavoidable war, you decide you hate your job and [...]
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I am not saying anything much about our headlong rush to war. I feel
too shocked and sickened to say much at this point. I did run across
this article on America
that Arrogant Empire and really didn’t have anything to disagree
with in it. One quote:
Being pro-American should not be a political liability for our
allies. The diplomatic fiasco [...]
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