We went to the Reagan Library today to see Air Force One and President Reagan’s tomb. I always enjoy going there but this was the first time we’ve been since he died. Photos are in the gallery.
Sunday February 26, 2006
Friday February 24, 2006
The ports and Arab hysteria
Since the port deal has come to light I keep hearing stories about how the 9/11 hijackers had ties to the UAE. Two of them came from there. Some of the money went through UAE banks. The UAE recognized the Taliban in Afghanistan. The UAE doesn’t like Israel.
All true as far as I can tell. But, quite a few of the hijackers also came from Saudi Arabia. The banks the money went through were owned by British companies. The UAE government helped us throw the Taliban out of Afghanistan after 9/11. As far as the Israel thing, I doubt you’ll find any arab country changing their tune any time soon.
I suggest we all take a deep breath and let the story come out. The Bush administration dropped the ball by not coming forward sooner but we should at least hear more.
After all, who taught the hijackers to fly planes?
Sunday February 12, 2006
A most cruel and horrible beast!
We’ve got a rabbit. It’s not so much that we wanted a rabbit. I want lots of things but a rabbit is way down on my list. But nevermind that because we’ve got one in our back yard and I have no idea how it got there.
I noticed it about a week ago. At first I thought it was a cat being all furry and small and almost cat-like. But as it hopped into the light I knew it wasn’t a cat. You could even call it a bunny it’s so small. Here’s what it looks like.
I bet it would be taste like chicken.
Saturday February 4, 2006
My name is Don……. and I’m a geek
I admit it. I am poweless over technology and my life has become Windowless. I can’t seem to satisfy my urge to install operating systems on my computer. Only another geek would understand.
It started with Red Hat(Fedora Core actually) then moved on to Mandrake. Next I was putting Suse on hda7. Can you imagine? HDA7! We shouldn’t forget that hda6 is the swap partition so maybe that one shouldn’t count.
Last night I downloaded the ISO of Gentoo. Nobody uses Gentoo but I’m thinking about it because I’ve still got about 80 GB free.
After that I’ll probably try Slackware again. They say once you’ve installed Slackware you’ve hit bottom. It doesn’t even boot into X! Command line only. With a BASH shell. And you have to create the initrd.
I realize I’ve got a problem but I think I can handle it. After all, I’m using Grub instead of LILO. You don’t have to rebuild Grub every time you add a /boot like you do with LILO.
But I do draw the line somewhere. I will NOT install FreeBSD!
I wonder if there’s a 12 step?
Thursday February 2, 2006
Firefox 1.5.0.1
If you’re running Firefox 1.5 you should be getting a popup soon telling you to update to 1.5.0.1. It’s a security update that will also take care of the printing problem Daryl mentioned a few days ago. Betty got the popup but I didn’t yet. I went ahead and updated when she told me about it.
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