The Cable News Biggies roll on with continuous coverage of shots supposedly fired near the Rayburn Office Building. In case you pine for a career in broadcast “journalism”, some phrases to keep handy for this type of incident:
Don’t forget to ask inane questions during the press briefings. Oh, and bring your BlackBerry. These broadcasts, converted to DVD, could make one awesome drinking game.
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That last post was my 500th, in numerical rank only. Maybe #500 in quality and insightfulness as well.
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CNN and MSNBC are reporting that shots have been fired at or near the Rayburn House Office Building. According to MSNBC, the Capitol Police are conducting a grid search of a section of the building. Meanwhile, the House is in session, and the gasbags are doing what they do best.
Presumably, police presence is welcome in this case. Providing an alert intern hid the cash.
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I wish this post detailed my purchase of a vintage Chevy El Camino. Instead, I’m experimenting with the Camino browser for the Mac. Firefox is fine, and it is still my default browser. I have a nasty habit of clogging Firefox with extension upon extension, until I render it unable to render. Heh.
The extension I use most in FFX is the AdBlock extension. Camino blocks ads out of the box. In addition, Camino just feels snappier in loading pages, and in navigating around.
We’ll see how it goes.
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Senator Charles Grassley (R – IA) has a top ten list of what’s wrong with the current immigration bill before the Senate. Here’s #5 on his list, which is in the top three on my list of the most galling:
Confidentiality – Under the bill, if an illegal alien applies for amnesty, the federal government cannot use information provided in the application for anything but adjudicating the petition. For example, if illegal aliens write in their applications that they are related to Osama Bin Laden, then our government cannot use that information. In fact, it says that the Secretary of Homeland Security can only share that information if someone requests it in writing.
So your government cares more about illegal aliens’ privacy and confidentiality than it does about yours. Kinda crawls your nape, doesn’t it?
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With the Akismet spam sludge-trap counter now at 970, this will doubtless be the week, or even maybe the night, where tbbs-land hits the 1000 mark.
You may call them dirty scumbags, but I’ve advanced from the common “enhancement” product spams, to hold ‘em poker, to legit sports handicapping, and now, I’m proud to say, to offers for discount hotels and mortgage refinance.
Love these internets.
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I’m watching the “Bump Day” coverage from Indianapolis, and I’m impressed with Rusty Wallace’s abilities in the broadcast booth. It is evident that even though open wheel cars weren’t what made Rusty famous, that he understands racing. Witness this comment he just made, about a racer whose name I didn’t get:
He’s already spun out three times. Right now, he’s spent more time cleaning out his shorts than he has shaking out his car.
A procedure common to all forms of motor sport, I’m sure.
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My old Palm m505 breathed its last here awhile back, and I determined that that was the end of my PDA usage. I’ve been a Palm customer clear back to the Palm IIIx days, and in lots of ways, the ol’ IIIx was the best. I had a serial connect program which enabled me to connect it to a Sun server, and use the Palm as a serial terminal on the server. It worked great, and I got lots of curious looks when I used it in the data center.
Then the m505 came along, color, slim, more powerful, and with a hermetically sealed battery. I’d ordered a replacement battery kit from someplace, and managed to keep it humming a while longer. It finally got broken somehow; I think an overstuffed briefcase was to blame.
I then determined to keep on top of schedules, to-dos, etc, via a more low-tech route. I soon tired of papers, post-its, and notebooks. Maybe lack of discipline on my part spelled the demise of this system. So yesterday, I went to Office Depot and returned with a Palm Tungsten E2, It may not improve discipline, but I’ll look cool being slothful. Plus, I have my CIDR calculator back.
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Not Veritas, as in Truth. I’d like to think that truth is dispensed daily, and freely, on this ‘ol blog. I refer rather to Veritas Storage Foundation Basic, now available as a free download. It is limited to 4 volumes, and 4 mounted vxfs filesystems. It is also constrained to run on machines with 2 or fewer processors.
It’s available for various architectures and flavors of Linux, as well as for Solaris x86.
I’ve tried it at work, and it is the real deal. So, if you’re a hobbyist/geek/small_server_admin, this a tool that works well, at an unbeatable price.
The software is available here.
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h/t: Ben Rockwood for the linkage.
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Providing the weather cooperates, the Nextel All-Star Challenge runs tonight under the lights at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. No Nextel Cup points on the line, just wads of money, and running on the ragged edge in search of same.
I’ve entered the Fantasy Cup one-race challenge for the event. $10,000 grand prize for the winner; I’ll be lucky to win a t-shirt. But, you can’t win if you don’t play.
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