the art of writing is discovering what you believe
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
Or as we have it in my family, a person who never made a mistake never made anything [the link has some variations on that, attributed to GB Shaw and Einstein].
In short:
Looks like this needs to happen by year end or so. t’would be nice to have a second system to just move to, but that doesn’t seem likely, unless I find one by the side of the road. Not that I wouldn’t find something like that an improvement over my coal-fired circa 2000 Athlon.
There are ways to upgrade in place, as noted in my del.icio.us bookmarks, but if I look at the FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Migration Guide, this makes a lot of sense:
Probably the most straightforward approach is that of “backup everything, reformat, reinstall, and restore user data.”
As long as it has been since I have stripped this system to the bare metal, it makes a lot of sense to take the time and do it that way now.
Greenlake Flickr photostroll today.
Found a new interesting sights, the kind of thing that happens when you slow down. As Capa is reputed to have said, if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. I would add that if you’re not seeing anything, slow down. A lot of what I seemed to be doing was taking notes for further exploration. There were things that needed a closer or more careful look than I could give them today, but now I have a reminder or a hint of how it could be done.
Or more to the point, ice day. Snow would have been one thing, but what we had was lots of ice and it made for treacherous conditions. So school was closed, in favor of sledding, reading, movie watching (My Neighbor Totoro), board games, and general marveling at the day. Beautiful blue skies, no wind, but cold, like it-never-got-up-to-freezing cold.
Home-made pizza for dinner, managed to slice open the end of my thumb on a recalcitrant food processor blade, and had to shape the crusts and dress two pies with a sandwich bag on my right hand. A deep cut, too, perhaps a quarter-inch. Can’t count how many times those blades have gotten me and I’m amazed they’re still so sharp. How sharp? When you can’t feel the cut at all and don’t know you’re cut ’til you see that you’re bleeding, that’s how sharp.
Within a few hundred words of the end of NaNoWriMo 2006, and may wrap it up tonight it if it doesn’t pain me too much. I have discovered an obvious thing about this. You just write when you have a moment or two, not when you “have time.” It always seemed hard to do that, but this year I have made a point to just tack on a few words whenever I got the chance and it has really made a difference.
That said, perhaps I’ll try and do it now. Tomorrow looks to be more of the same — cold and clear — with another snow storm in the evening, so I may have to grab my moments when I find them.
In any American court, the fellow shown below shaking hands with the condemned would have been deposed, even called as a witness. I wonder how much Saddam’s murderous regime was enabled or strengthened by his erstwhile allies.
Some Call it Justice:
Saddam Hussein will hang within 30 days for his crimes against the people of Iraq. He has been found guilty, and rightly so.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the adage goes. So Saddam the tyrant — he was no different in 1983 than in 1993 or 2003 — was courted as a bulwark against Iran. How the mullahs in Iran have enjoyed the efforts of the Great Satan to remove Saddam from their path, to strengthen the hand of Shi’ites in what’s left of Iraq, and inflame the jihadis.
Heckuva job, guys.
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FreeAfterRebate.info – Cellink USB 1.1 Mini Bluetooth Adapter:
I mean, for $7.00, how bad can it be? Best I can tell, BlueTooth runs at 3 Mbits, best case. USB 1.1 runs at 12. So perhaps this is worth looking into.
