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I’m feeling pretty proud of myself, having fixed our powder room toilet, which over the past few months haw gradually suffered a decline in its ability to refill after flushing. I had previously replaced the stopcock assembly and checked the whole thing for leaks, but with no effect. Turns out …
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, which is good, because when I do, they usually don’t make any sense anyway. Every once in a while, though, there’s one that I think I need to remember, and I’ll write it down somewhere. So, as loathe as I am to begin …
Data Recovery After the catastrophe, I was able to recover most of my important information. I would classify as “important” the following things: * Taxes (backed up) * Digital pictures of the kids * Web site data Unfortunately, “most” in this case means all of the top two categories, and …
Unbeknownst to me (until now), the Apple store in Evansville, Indiana, which hosted frields.com bellied-up at the end of 2004, which is why my mail there has been bouncing — and why there’s now a generic travel sales site taking up referrals from that URL. I had hoped that the …
I am loving the new GIMP 2.2. Used it to retouch this photo of Ethan, taken just a few days ago. It was a snap to use some of the tools to reduce the depth of focus, airbrush some â??moistureâ? on his face (readers who are parents will know whereof …
As if being sniped at by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) weren’t enough (wow! who could have seen that coming?), Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice was taken to task by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for comments she made to Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) concerning the tsunami disaster and its impact …
New Year’s Resolution: To no longer acknowledge, other than by denigration, the travesty known as Kwanzaa.
(With apologies for the title, taken from a particularly ugly bit of Yes bloat-o-rama from the 1970’s.) Chris has posted an entry regarding Antony Flew’s change of heart regarding a/theism. I found this incredibly interesting, especially given my own philosophical musings of late. Particularly fascinating, perhaps even eerily familiar, given …
Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, writes about the effects of recent US Customs policy change. Although I’m not sure how contributing to EPIC really helps this case, seeing as how they are regularly dismissed by government security bureaucrats as paranoiacs and assorted nutballs, it’s obvious that this policy is …
This article is a grisly reminder of why the war in Iraq was justified on more than simply grounds of whether Saddam Hussein had a ready stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Now, however, what are we to do with Sudan?