a crank’s progress

Apple Unveils Mac mini with Intel Core Duo:

The new Mac mini with the Intel Core Duo processor delivers performance up to four times faster than its predecessor in the same innovative and incredibly compact design.

Dammit. This wasn’t expected til June. And it has an audio line-in (that mine doesn’t) in addition to being 4x faster. [...]

Stupid is as stupid does…:
It had never occurred to me before how hard it must be to be stupid in a world that values information, and the ability to interpret it, above all else. It’s no wonder these people are pissed off; especially when, as Sullivan says, “It cannot be blamed away.” That these philistines, [...]

The party of integrity, wah?
Think Progress » The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy:
This week the Minnesota Republican Party is distributing a new CD about a proposed state marriage amendment. Along with flashy graphics, the CD asks people their views on controversial issues such as abortion, gun control, illegal immigration, and so on.
The problem [...]

CNN.com - Bush: Bin Laden helped me, book says - Feb 28, 2006:

“Anything that drops in at the end of a campaign that is not already decided creates all kinds of anxieties, because you’re not sure of the effect.”I thought it was going to help,“ Bush said. ”I thought it would help remind people that [...]

A friend, a crafter of diverse skills — sewing, knitting, quilting, leatherwork, &c. — pointed out to me that the local economy must be healthy, since some of her crafty haunts were closing up. Being nigh on 80 years old, she has some perspective on this, and says its a tried and true pattern that [...]

A friend, a crafter of diverse skills — sewing, knitting, quilting, leatherwork, &c. — pointed out to me that the local economy must be healthy, since some of her crafty haunts were closing up. Being nigh on 80 years old, she has some perspective on this, and says its a tried and true pattern that [...]

2 out 3 people surveyed disapprove of the job the incumbent is doing. And he hasn’t yet faced a scandal along the lines of the Lewinsky witch-hunt or Watergate — yet.
CBS News | Poll: Approval Ratings Compared | November 2, 2005 22:00:08:
Both Reagan and Clinton endured scandals during their second terms. In January 1998, [...]

The Case for Impeachment (Harpers.org):
The Conyers report doesn’t lack for further instances of the administration’s misconduct, all of them noted in the press over the last three years—misuse of government funds, violation of the Geneva Conventions, holding without trial and subjecting to torture individuals arbitrarily designated as “enemy combatants,” etc.—but conspiracy to commit fraud would [...]

[update: this is what I actually do. Try this, instead. ]
I have seen a couple of sites offer up lists of their “greatest hits” and wanted to do something similar. But groping through 4 years of apache logs wasn’t too appealing.
I hunted around for some ideas on getting apache logs into a MySQL database (lots [...]

Is storage, ie disk/power/connectivity, so cheap that people can give away a 1 Gb block?

Strongspace offers 4 Gb for US$8/month with secure transfers, so it’s not quite the same thing. But there are some commonalities between Strongspace, Box.net, the various 37Signals services, all revolving around cheap infrastructure.
Some would see this as a great [...]