Salon.com: Washington’s Chalabi nightmare
Salon.com has an article announcing that the rock-solid intel on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is now the subject of an FB I espionage investigation of Republican policy makers. Ahmed Chalabi was given access to US intelligence and paid cash money. In return he gave the Whitehouse, et al, intelligence […]
Posted on May 27th, 2004
The Problem With Leaders
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” —Frank Herbert Chapterhouse: Dune
Posted on May 27th, 2004
The penalty good men pay
The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.—Plato
Posted on May 27th, 2004
GOP on Shrinking Gov’t
Republicans are people who want to shrink government to the point that it can fit in your bedroom.
Posted on May 27th, 2004
Double Negatives
They slipped in a double negative, the tricky little bastards. —Leslie in CA@DKOS. Re Bush/Cheney2004’s allegation that Kerry is a flip-flopper because he said he’d figh to keep “marriage penalties”, “But, In 1998, Kerry Voted Against Eliminating Marriage Penalty Relief…”
Posted on May 27th, 2004
Adventures in Wireless Capitalism
My Kyocera S14 recently died after 6 months causing me to ditch MetroPCS and their spackled signal spots. The new phone is an LG VX6000 from Verizon… we’ll see. Apparently poor design manufacturing (or sloppy subcontracting to Brazil cough Kyocera cough) is getting to a lot of cellphone users these […]
Posted on May 25th, 2004
I Want One
Italian police show off their new Lamborghini patrol car during celebrations to mark the force’s 152nd anniversary in Rome on May 14, 2004. If you are thinking about speeding on Italian highways this year, think twice. You might find yourself being chased down by a Lamborghini sports car. [source: HREF=”http://news.myway.com/article/id/403413|oddly […]
Posted on May 23rd, 2004
OG McCain (Original GOP)
McCain may be a meanspirited s.o.b., and he may be as evil as the rest of the lot. But at least he’s an opponent I can respect. I’d vote for him because I’d rather he was the alternative. I might even be convinced that he’s changed in the last four(+) […]
Posted on May 23rd, 2004
Why is the CPA such a failure?
Because it’s run by a bunch of 20-something interns straight out of college, or so says the Washington Post. [url – HREF=”http://opendna.freeshell.net/mirrors/WAPOST-TheJobOpportunityOfALifetime. htm”>mirror] When the U.S. government went looking for people to help rebuild Iraq, they had responded to the call. They supported the war effort and President Bush. Many […]
Posted on May 22nd, 2004
Chmod Notes
This site has useful documentation on the use of chmod and permissions on unix servers. http://www.web-ho sting.com/support/unix/cgi/chmod.html
Posted on May 19th, 2004
Victory for WikiRootry!
Twenty minutes later WikiRootry is installed, setup and running. Sure, it needs some hacking to fit into the design scheme. Obviously the content is a never-ending project. But it’s installed and running. That’s what I’m talking about. There’s nothing in it, but the development URL is http://opendna.freeshell.net/wiki/.
Posted on May 19th, 2004
UNIX commands
I just tried to install MoinMoin wiki. No dice. I’ll try WikiRootry and may come back to MoinMoin if there’s no luck there either. The Installation Directions for MoinMoin just SUCK. Not for the rookie, IMHO. Useful commands I’ve dug up in the process: gunzip = for .gz files (1) […]
Posted on May 19th, 2004
Quickcolor – Flash Color Selector
HREF=”http://kohaistyle.com/scripts/quickcolor/” TARGET=”_new”>Quickcolor features RGB and HEX color codes and suggests complementary ones to match.
Posted on May 18th, 2004
Transition To Blosxom Started
It looks like I’ve got Blosxom installed on sdf.lonestar.org (AKA freeshell.net). Blosxom is set-up, running, and reading the style-sheets. The layout’s been converted, though it’ll probably be re-designed later. I’ve begun the conversion of posts from Blogger to Blosxom and old posts will start appearing here as that conversion progresses. […]
Posted on May 17th, 2004