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===========================================Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Punchlines #26
I haven’t posted an unadorned punchline in quite a while; I came across this one just last week, and was frankly surprised that, for as old as I am, I’d never heard the joke. The punchline goes like this: NO! … Continue reading
One Photo, Multiple Uses
I sent this photo to Dave several years back, as part of my initiation into the EGC Style Council. The pic was taken by MLB, while she and I were en route to Martinsville for a NASCAR race. We always … Continue reading
Bristol, Baby!
I’m hard-pressed to pick my favorite NASCAR event of the year. The Daytona 500 wakes me from my winter NASCAR drought, the Brickyard is iconic, the Coke 600 is a Decoration Day classic. But, for slam-bam balls out racing, Bristol … Continue reading
New Miles Leader
My regular daily driver, a 2001 Saturn, just turned over 107000 miles a day or two ago. This makes it #1 in MLB and my “cars with the most miles driven” category. The ’01 actually eclipsed the 106K+ miles of … Continue reading
Obligatory Post-Update Post
The WordPress upgrade of the week elevates tbbs-land to 2.8.4. More security-related items were fixed: Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a … Continue reading
Dude, Who has the Pager?
It’s my week in the barrel with the stinking on-call pager yet again. I detest the stinking on-call pager; the events to which I respond are either: Trivial – stuff that shouldn’t happen – full filesystems come to mind. Properly … Continue reading
Another High-calibre Saturday
calibre, an e-book reader’s best companion, has been upgraded to v. 0.6.5. In keeping with my history of tips and tricks for installing calibre on Fedora, I offer the following, based on the install I just completed. I’m running Fedora … Continue reading
Nothing Fake about It
From the Frederick (MD) News-Post, linkage provided, the fact that it may be broken tomorrow notwithstanding: Fake 911 calls lead to charges This story details the actions of one Bryan Paul Blanchard, who apparently had a habit of calling 911 … Continue reading
Wiki-Top
As documented here, $DAYJOB is detracting from my blogging a bit. I pour most of my vim and vigor into the now required Daily Status Report. I arbitrarily added a couple of sections to my DSR; Observations, Mood, and Thought … Continue reading
Upgrade Double
Last Monday, tbbsLand went to WordPress 2.8.2, and I sadly neglected to document that event. Tonight, in another painless upgrade, this old blog went to WP 2.8.3. Both were security-related updates. If they want an upgrade a day, I’ll do … Continue reading
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