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“If this wasn’t a ridiculous overreaction to a non-existent threat, then how come the devices were in place for weeks without anyone noticing them? What does that say about the Boston police?”
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“Let it not be said that parliamentary institutions are being maintained in this country in a farcical or unreal manner. We are fighting for parliamentary institutions. We are endeavouring to keep their full practice and freedom, even in the stress of war
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We buy oil from the Saudis, they take the proceeds and send it to the Sunnis in Iraqi, who then buy anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down US helicopters, four of which have been lost in the past two weeks. Talk about friendly fire.
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a couple of young girls of my acquaintance lost their young cat to kidney failure after ingesting antifreeze: he had to be put down at 2 years. this weekend marks the anniversary of putting one of ours down as well.
Category: the value of X
links for 2007-02-02
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“I’m not a tough guy; I don’t bother nobody and nobody bothers me,” he said. “But if somebody is going to harm you, you got to harm them.” ’nuff said.
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but what about eating it? Film contains animal protein (the gelatin emulsion that contains the photo-sensitive silver is from animal bones) so can vegetarians use it in good conscience?
links for 2007-01-10
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How’d he do?
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kids have it so easy today: when we were kids we had to be a little less obvious about paying someone to do our work for us.
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I don’t read biz books anymore but if I did, this would be on my list.
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“Perhaps introducing carbon offsets – real or virtual – to Second Life is in order… Has anyone done that yet? “
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up to three replacements of blades in a system, without involving your purchasing process or leasing.
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Am I really supposed to take seriously someone who says “The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11.” ????
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“Nobody likes getting voice mail. The iPhone addresses that, and it makes you wonder why none of the other mobile phone providers have before.” Because they’re phone companies?
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“Given the way the iPhone makes previous phones look like they have a crank, that may be a fair premium.”
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long overdue and something that keeps me from upgrading immediately: how hard can it be to supply a diff/patch routine on an unmodified install?
links for 2006-12-16
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“My name, Alicia, means truth, so here it is. ” Hah. I just looked up her name and no, it doesn’t mean that all. It refers to nobility of character or a trusted advisor, but that’s not the same thing.
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haven’t seen this chestnut before.
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would that more photogenic movie stars were this clueful.
tangled up in blue
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.
on BBP messenger bags
Missed this in the earlier bag roundup. cheaper than most of the others too.
I enquired of them where they were made (just to compare apples and apples) and admitted their production takes place in China but they are aware of the issues surrounding that and are doing their best to monitor it.
Transparency is good: score one for BBP.
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almost there
Less than 1500 words a day will get me there.
% echo “(50000 – 43572) / (30 – `date +%d`)” | bc
1285
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still going
Your current Word Count is 6239
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resetting a forgotten WRT54G web admin password
For some reason, I haven’t been able to access wireless router consistently. My password seems not to be right. But how to create/change it if you can’t log in? This assumes a WRT54G with the dd-wrt firmware.
Assuming you’re on some system that supports openssl (I did this on FreeBSD), you can just make a new one:
[/usr/home/paul]# openssl passwd
Password: ********
Verifying – Password: ********
#########
Assuming you’re not totally locked out (you did set up ssh, didn’t you?), you can then write your changes to the router’s nvram and it should work for you with the new password.
nvram set http_passwd = #########
nvram commit
If anyone can offer advice on other ways to do this, please leave them in comments.
want fresh veggies? go pick them yourself
Crackdown on illegal immigrants leads to a shortage of farm workers:
What do you know? The crackdown on illegal immigration has led to a shortage of produce pickers this year.
The tightening of the border with Mexico, begun more than a decade ago but reinforced since May with the deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops, has forced California growers to acknowledge that most of their workers are illegal Mexican migrants. The U.F.W. estimates that more than 90 percent of the state’s farm workers are illegal.
Whaddaya think? Will we see a sudden surge in domestic/native-born workers to fill those jobs?
The bottomline seems to be: do you want to let the stuff rot in the fields or on the shelves?
If we were to somehow get everything picked but at the wages demanded by native-born workers, the prices would be too high for many to buy anything. So it might end up making more sense to leave them to compost rather than dump them in the waste stream.