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To my few remaining Republican friends…

Juan Cole asks this very interesting question about why you still think of yourself as a Republican: Are you a masochist? I love Mr. Cole’s writing.

2008 09 22 Fun
Politics
Virginia Politics Comments (0)

Wow, the is_human() module works great

I have is_human() coupled with Akismet and together they knock out all the comment spam I was getting. The other interesting little factoid, is that nearly all the spam I was getting was coming from only three IP addresses… hurray for blacklisting. I’ll share the nefarious addresses so you can firewall them out if you […]

2008 09 21 Blogging
Computer Security
WordPress Comments (0)

Ahoy, it be time to toast me most beloved holiday

Woke up this morning with a skull-splitting pain in me noggin… unable to fully embrace the holiday fun. Felt like I were bein’ keel-hauled by the time me vessel was finished getting some repairs; damned scalliwags took o’er three hours rather than the usual one; may the lubbers rot fer havin’ the incompetence of a […]

2008 09 19 Holidays
Pastafarianism
Personal Comments (0)

Multiple 802.1q VLANs on multiple Solaris 10 zones

Man, what a tricky, undocumented, annoying configuration… but it works. We have a few Sun T2000 and T5200 boxes running Solaris 10 at work. We want to run multiple zones (Sun’s virtualization technology) on each physical box; and the virtual servers need to be spread out over several different VLANs to isolate traffic for firewall […]

2008 09 18 Computers Comments (1)

Lions and Tigers and Robotic Cars, oh my!

Uh, wow; a robotic car, in traffic… navigating by GPS and class 1 low powered infrared lasers… CNet News Article of the Anthony Levandowski Prius Driving, it’s what the hired help does.

2008 09 16 Cars
News Comments (0)

Implemented is_human() Word press Plugin

Akismet alone was not stopping enough comment spam, so I have implemented is_human() which asks a random multiple choice question, answers are in a drop down and it should be easy for humans to comment, but difficult for machines. Sadly, the marker for a required field did not get enabled initially (now fixed) and a […]

2008 09 15 Blogging
WordPress Comments (3)

October 6th Voter Registration Deadline in Virginia

Subject says it. If you think you might want to vote in this year’s general election, which looks like it will be the closest in Virginia history, get off your bottom and get yourself registered before October 6th. No matter where you live, time is running out; get registered now.

2008 09 15 News Comments (0)

Closed Captions can be fun!

So our good friend Bob helped us figure out how to turn on closed captioning on our TV, and we’ve been able to follow the dialogue on modern shows and movies much better. What the heck happened to training actors to project their voices and keeping the effects down so you can hear the dialogue? […]

2008 09 13 Fun
Movies
Science Fiction Comments (0)

For the records, a few facts

1) The width of the Bering Strait at it’s narrowest point is around 53 miles. Of course the distance between the Diomede islands at 2.4 miles is much less, but they are very sparsely populated (146 people on the U.S. held Little Diomede according to the 2000 Census), and their populations have traditionally worked together […]

2008 09 12 Foreign Policy
Fun Comments (0)

Obama, a closer examination…

Let’s ignore for a few moments the media’s focus on imagined personality and pretend outrage and actually focus on some issues; like how the next president of the United States will impact every one of us. The next president, should he or she last four full years in office, is likely to nominate two United […]

2008 09 12 Politics Comments (2)