Daily Archives: May 31, 2006

GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress

May 31, 2006 – 9:40 pm

I came across GovTrack.us today. I haven’t explored it a lot yet, but on the surface, you can track your legislator’s speeches, votes, etc, via syndication (probably RSS, but we can hope for Atom).
Anyhow, with Congress being such a gaggle of the incredibly inane, we need a nice tool to track their progress, or more [...]

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Kansas Weather

May 31, 2006 – 8:28 pm

I really do miss Kansas. Even scenes like this. Storms have incredible power, along with an island of peace and tranquility that you can see, even though it might be afar off.
I came across this site today, which chronicles one episode in the life of a Nebraska storm chaser. On this day, [...]

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On the Skids

May 31, 2006 – 7:52 am

I have a battery of sed, gawk, and Kornshell scripts that I use to configure new Solaris servers for installation. These scripts are 6 years old now, and are nearing the point where they are about to collapse under their own weight, the result of bug fixes, and feeping creaturitis that plagues every set [...]

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