So, I went yet a whole other year without writing in my journal.

Well, I'm now 28. Since I was 27, my wife and I bought a house.

No promises, but I'll post more as things progress...

I'm so excited! Today when checked in, I had a message informing me that I have my first foe! It looks like MrBlackBand (715820) does not appreciate me or my comments. Good. If I'm pissing people off with my arguments (which are always supported by facts), then I am saying the correct things. It's just a shame that this user would rather bury his head in the ground instead of being open to discourse- and resolving problems. Good luck MrBlackBand, you and "red" US need it.

With all this talk that the gay marriage proposals got religious conservatives to the polls, let me just say this: those people who believe that gay marriage is ruining the sanctity of marriage are just a bunch of bigots attempting to rationalize their views. They run under their banner of "being Christian," when they're no better than racists.

A case in point is this comment. This guy is trying to rationalize hating gays by quoting the passage from Leviticus.

People who use the Bible to justify hatred of gays infuriate me to no end. They claim to be religious, but they do not even know what the Bible says. Let an agnostic Unitarian Universalist (that's me) correct them.

Leviticus 18:22 states: "You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, it is an abomination." OK. Word of God, eh? We should then follow EVERYTHING in Leviticus. No sense being selective. Leviticus 25:44-46 tells us that we can take slaves (gentiles only). Leviticus 19:20-22 also states that sex with an engaged slave is punished by an animal sacrifice at temple. Chapters 1-7 of Leviticus tell us the collection of laws relating to sacrifices, offerings, and the like.

That said, if these people are so afraid of ruining the "sanctity of marriage," they should be worried about the high rates of divorce. Estimates are that 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce. It's not just liberals getting divorces, Born Again Christians are as likely to get divorced as the general population (source). As for "protecting" marriage, if people were so concerned about it, they'd make adultery illegal, and make divorce illegal. Divorce laws have gotten easier in the last 20+ years. Here's a hint: that has nothing to do with homosexuals. Also, how many people who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 were divorced? Many. How many people going after Clinton for his blowjob had had affairs? Several.

My point is, if one holds so close and dear that one specific passage is enough to base views/hatred/laws/etc, they need to give enough weight to all the other passages. Why are they allowed to choose some passages over others? The rest of us think they're just goofy for giving so much weight to something that is really just a good collection of stories designed to teach a moral code to uneducated people thousands of years ago.

Okay I have to admit it. I want something better than UNIX or Windows. Why have we seen no real improvement in OSs since Unix?
I am no fan of Microsoft but I have to say at least they did not just copy Unix. Windows in my opinion is a huge disaster that is a huge pile of everything thrown together. It is a server a desktop and now an embedded system. It was not designed as much as it mutated. Mac OS/X has a great UI but it is still ruining on top of Unix.
I want something different.
Here is what I would like to see.
1. Object oriented. Yes I have heard all the anti OO people but I can honestly say that I enjoy writing OO code. I want the OS to have a root object that everything is descended from.
2. Integrated DB. I want a database to be part of the OS. It could be used for the file system and for configuration files as well.
3 Networking centric. Unix and Windows both have networking tacked on. Why not design the system from the ground up to be networked.
4. Replace X. Can't we do better than X after all these years?
5. Clustering. VMS had a great clustering system in Vax Clusters. I would love it if every desktop that was added to the network became part of a cluster.
6. Cpu independent. All programs would compile to an ideal byte code. When installed it would and a compiled blob to the executable. The new OS would not care if you wrote the program for a Power PC or Athlon 64. This is not all that different from how the Transmeta cpus work or the IBM AS400 worked.
7. Good install system. Not a tacked on solution but making installing new software as much a part of the OS as the API to put a letter on the screen. Ports is great. Yum works pretty well. Apt-get works but I have had issues with all of these. Since it is network centric how about a bittorrent like system integrated into the OS for APT like stuff?
8. A good UI. This just goes without saying that with out a good UI it will not work.

What is the biggest problem with a new OS? That is easy hardware support. Oh well I can dream and Linux does not suck.

Okay yes we have been hit by two hurricanes but Adelphia's service is the pits.
First let my dispel a myth or a marketing lie.
1. Cable is more reliable than a dish.
This is not true. my sister has a dish and was much closer to the coast than I was. She still has no power but she does have TV. She is running her dish off her generator. The dish stayed attached to her home and did not move. Now there is a power pole down in her backyard so I think we can say that the dish is pretty sturdy. I have some other friends that also have the dish and they are all up and working. No one with Cable is working.
2. DSL is more reliable than Cable.
True.
I have a support tech working for me that is running his computer off his generator at home and using his DSL.

Before anyone thinks I am being unfair about his let me just point out.
1. I have power and my phone back.
2. Adelphia never came out to fix my cable after the last storm. I fixed the connection to the house myself but the cable was still laying on the ground.
3. Adelphia has provided NO information on when the I can expect the problem fixed. Florida Power and Light at least have completion date for the county. Adelphia has provided no information at all as to when I can expect my service back. Phone and power are both up and working at this time. So Adelphia is the only utility not working. I am very glad I do not have my phone or alarm through them.

Yes we got hit again. The storm did little damage to my house but we lost power again.
The office is back up with power so the guys can get back to work and I can sit in AC at least during the hottest part of the day.
I have to give Home Depot a big thumbs up for being so well stocked this time. They had lots of everything and did not raise the prices too much. Power is already coming back so this might not be that bad after all.
We can hope.

Well we got hit hard by Hurricane Frances. We just got our power back last night but still now cable or broadband at home :(
Over all a bad thing if you ask me. But what can you do a tree took out the cable and power line. On a bright note I have seen trucks from everywhere including Canada working full of utility workers. They are working there butts off after Charley and Frances and now Ivan is going to nail Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the panhandle of Florida. Those poor crews are going to be dead on there feet. I hope they all get through this safe.
And I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

Well, time to get another job. Just recently handed in my notice, I've had enough.

Not really much more to add, my last day is next friday. Anyone looking for a unix/networking guy in the Perth, Western Australia area (part time work preferred, starting my own business), please feel free to email me :D

What the heck is going on? Has Hollywood now totally devoid of any originality? Was there any to start with? Okay first they trash the Stepford Wives! Now they are going to screw up the The Manchurian Candidate. Why do they have to mess with a perfectly good movie? From the trailers it no longer looks as if it is Red China that is trying to control the US government hence the name The Manchurian Candidate. No it is now the new boogie man multi-national corparations that are the behind the plot. ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I have not seen it yet and it might even be a good movie but it is not the The Manchurian Candidate anymore than I Robot was I Robot.

Even though she or he has put me down as a foe. I read some of there posts and technicaly they where very good.

Well my project at work is moving along well. I do have to say that I HATE WINDOWS! I HATE WINDOWS, I HATE WINDOWS.
Get the feeling that I hate windows?
My CAD system was locking up left and right on me. I finaly did an uninstall/reinstall! Guess what it worked. How the heck does Windows allow executables to be trashed like that. Is the file system that bad?
My wife is now head of technical support so she now gets to have much of the fun I used to. It has not been easy for her but she is doing the best that she can. So far she has done a stellar job. Well the parts are being SLAd now and the LCD is on the way so all is going pretty well.

Yeah, I haven't written in my Journal in a whole year ;-)

Pretty much, not much has changed.

Ok, whoever may read this. I've set up a standard free blogging account with blogger.com. You can go there to read thoughts that I want to jot down. Chances are, I won't write anything much in my journal entry here. This may change, but given that I've been a slashdotter since before it had user accounts, and I've never bothered to make a journal entry here before, don't expect much.

I added Jgardn to my friend list.
He is brave enough to try and to the missionary thing on Slashdot. Of course you will have many people praiseing OSC for his artical on file shareing. I wounder how many people know that he is also LDS.
Good try. Sorry that you got flamed.

Who is them and who is us.
The Who are the extreme Right and the extreme Left.
My sig still gets comments. I really want to change it just for change sakes but I do want to let the bigots think they won. Truth is I have more tolerence for people that try to deny God than those that try and get Evolution kicked out of schools. There is not such thing as Scientifc Creationism. It is an oxymoron. However to deny God seems equally as stupid. Why God can not be proven the effects seew wide spread. Of course there are those that would point to the evil that has been done in God's name as an effect. Yet if you look that evil has always happened when men of power have twisted religion and convinced the weak minded to follow them. Just rember that Hitler and his friends where not Christians but where pagans. The where into the Norse Gods, Fire, and even there symbol was stolen from Hindism. Good old Stalin, Chairman Mao, and the current leaders of North Korea are all athists. Evil comes from all directions. So does good. One should not jump to a conclusion to the good or evil nature of a person just from the fact that they do or not believe in a God. I personaly think that Christ loves thoses that try to good without the benifit of his teachings every bit as much as those that believe in him. Well I guess I can take the comments of fools if it helps other to be more tolerent.