I don't think dear Ma has a solid sense of what Wikipedia is about. She is oddly a fan of a company that has made the 10th page of the newspapers several times over the last year, and Wikipedia has an article on this company. The best I can tell, dear Ma found out about this company after they spammed her, and she thought the spam was 'funny'.

Some of you may know, I got an Ipod 3 weeks ago. I have already discovered the joy of subscribing to podcasts.

I quickly discovered the XML behind the podcast experience, and sent FidelCatsro an XML podcast file for EP3 and EP4, which Fidel posted (but doesn't have a link on his homepage for)...

Alright,
You continue to write,
Daily,
Love entwined tight.

JohnDiii,
We send this to thee,
Because,
Well, caring are we.

Today,
I take a new way,
Poetry,
For your Birthday.

I have a big problem with Anti-Abortion laws. They simply cannot protect woman's rights, they are specifically meant to deny a pregnant woman her rights. This, I cannot accept.

Then folks talk about the great exception...
The life of the mother.

O.K.

I'm a western science kinda guy. I don't know where I got it, but I have this automatic assumption that science is the best answer. There's this whole thing now about how herbal medicines make no money, thus... get no scientific funding, so maybe could be so much better than scientific medicines. Then I think of Bayer, and how they've made a small fortune on a very herbal medicine, that is also accepted by western medicine.

I fell ill on Sunday, but it didn't hit me until late in the day. All the better, really. Sunday was my birthday, and that would have sucked had I felt this bad the whole day.

So, yeah - it's Tuesday, Valentines day, and I've got this fever that won't go away, and I want to play with my new iPOD (birthday gift), and figure out how to make it work, but I'm not willing to buy a specific encoder, and making stuff compile takes thought over headache, tiredness and other pains*

NIC issue is resolved. It was the whole switch, not just a port. I don't know why ... especially why I don't seem to have this problem on other computers ... but moving this PC to a different (and newer) switch fixed the issue.

Quick Review of Draft 1 of the GPLv3

O.K. - Have you ever run into this...
I have tried three different Linux Kernels, and three different network cards (with two different NIC chipsets), in two different PCI slots - and I have an odd issue where - after a period of heavy network traffic (usually during the heavy network traffic) - the card simply stops sending and receiving network packets. mii-tool doesn't see anything odd - tcpdump doesn't show any killer packets, and ... pulling the ethercable, and pl

May be usefull for non-geeks as well, so I'm posting it without the usual [Geek] warning.

I am an American white boy. A full 1/8 Dutch. Grew up between the poverty line, and median income levels. Median income was not, necessarily, from actual jobs held by my parental units.

I just saw the most evil spam, ever. I removed the end of the link in the spam, because - frankly - I don't want them to get any click-throughs. I have no idea what they are advertising, but the tactic is pure evil...

Lucas Driver,

Enclosed you will find your February Account Details - http://it.geocities.com/******

3 Year Project total: $30,152.17

Project Start cost (today): $16,858.08
Monthly Payment (Dell Disk Drives - Leased): $101.73
Year 2 (next Jan): $5350.88
Year 3 (Jan '08): $5350.88
Final (Feb '08) Buyout of Dell Disks: $1

This project starts with two pre-existing Dell 1500SC Dual Processor servers...

Listening to public radio thismorning, I heard a silly song by a guy by the name of Dave Frisherg. The song is "Blizzard of Lies", but that's not the point. Turns out, I've liked this guy's music since I was a kid. He wrote the School House Rocks song, "I'm Just a Bill." Who'd a thunk it...

I'm looking for a backup solution. I would like it to run on Linux, but it at least has to be able to back up Linux. More importantly, I want it to be able to deal with remote XP laptops, devices that are not seen in the office for 6 months at a time - and be able to deal with full recovery (i.e. insert boot disk, tell it where the recovery image is, userid and password - and start restoring - assuming a brand-new store-bought hard-drive.)