Dear Iraq:
Congratulations on your elections. I hope they work out better over there than they have here.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Elections
January 31, 2005 – 11:51 am
backup MX no more
January 24, 2005 – 12:20 pm
I’m no longer going to provide backup MX on pianosa or any box I am primarily responsible for. I’m sending out mail to people who have pianosa listed as backup MX. Barring a request for more time, I’ll be dropping ‘em all from my configs as of Friday, Jan 28th, 2005.
I’m sending people [...]
Graham’s Law
January 21, 2005 – 12:59 pm
Paul Graham has written a lot and elequently about programming, the computer industry, and life. A lot of it I agree with, some I disagree with, but all of it is at least thoughtful and worth considering.
However, since I love to pull out one liners to file away for later, I’m going to christen [...]
Donate!
January 19, 2005 – 3:35 pm
Now, given the current spate of election and natural disasters, one might possibly be donated out. However, if you’d like, here’s one more cause worth sending money to: Calling Bill O’Reilly a lying dickhead.
Fun for the whole family
January 19, 2005 – 3:31 pm
Here’s a lot of fun. It’s my favorite MMOPRrrrrrrPPG*. Puzzle Pirates!
Let me know if you sign up.
* – Massive Multiplayer Online Piratical Rrrrrrrole Playing Puzzle Game.
Backups
January 18, 2005 – 11:12 am
On the subject of data backups, the economist Brad DeLong has a perfect summary of the reason they’re necessary:
Remember: a machine has no mind: you cannot sense beforehand when it is about to betray you.
Master of Delusion
January 13, 2005 – 3:12 pm
According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell for his view on the progress of the war. “We’re losing,” Mr Powell was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of state to leave.
Quoted [...]
You’ve been Punk’d!
January 12, 2005 – 3:55 pm
From Fox News…
A man who called himself Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan persuaded producers to let him sing the national anthem before the beginning of a rodeo in Salem, Va., Friday night. He said he was touring America making a documentary, and would have a film crew with him.
A google search for Boraq Sagdiyev asks, “Did [...]
