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4:35 pm - still alive
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| Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
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4:25 pm - THE BLOG HAS MOVED
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Here (http://gibbie.powerblogs.com/)
Reason - LJ is nice, and I really like the editor, but it's too limited, I've outgrown it and am moving to a paid account. Only $5/month, can't beat that. Unfortunately I can't really take the old posts with me, so they'll have to remain buried here. I'll (try to) repost some of the better ones. Boss is nagging again so better quit. Bye LJ!
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12:17 pm - Another post on how to startup a blog
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It also covers trackbacks in small detail. (link here) A trackback is a link on someone else's blog that shows that you referenced them. Basically it's saying 'hey, I made some comments/analysis of this post, on my blog, and the post is here. I'm going to test a 'do it yourself' trackbacker since I don't think livejournal accepts it.
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| Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
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6:27 pm - how to start a blog
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3:11 pm - tsunami crisis - where is the UN?
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The talk in the blogosphere is about the tsunami crisis and who is helping, or isn't helping. As usual, the UN is nowhere to be seen, but the Americans, Dutch, and Aussies are helping; the vast majority of the work is being done by the US military, which American taxpayers support. In this light, amounts of contributions in monetary dollars is not a useful indicator of how much everyone is pitching in, but in fact its 'boots on the ground'. Therefore the US is saving the world once again. I hope we are remembered by the Indonesians and Thais. (story here)
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2:43 pm - The wadster is a HOFer
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1:26 pm - sudafed/crystal meth link
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story here I think i commented on this earlier, but in texas we are only allowed to purchase two packs of sudafed ( Pseudoephedrine HCl). I went to buy 3 at Sams club, and was told i can only buy 2, but the cashier helpfullly said i can go to another cashire and buy the 3rd pack that i wanted. Kinda funny.
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1:23 pm - limited/non-existant blogging
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J & I got back from St. Louis on the 30th. We picked up the ferrets the next day. The remaining days have been a blur. I'm extremely congested and have been doing alot of various cold medicines, mostly sudafed, sudafed/benedryl/tylenol, and claritin D. I found that a combo of Claritin D and sudafed/benedryl/tylenol works best, but i haven't been able to rationally think in the last few days. Apparently sudafed is a starter substance for illiicit drug production, i think crystal meth, and in high enough doses has a halucatory effect. Which is kinda what I'm experiencing, on a small scale. I feel miserable, but i don't care. ANyway when/if i get better i'll post more.
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1:19 pm - what I want for next christmas
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| Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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3:03 pm - MASCAL
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I knew someone would blog the Mosul artillary attack, it's here. I will warn you, this is traumatic. All I can say is may God bless the soldiers who put themselves in harms way every day, and I pray for speedy victory, although it seems doubtful now, in our darkest hour. 25 dead, 45 wounded, so far.
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6:02 am - Interesting discussion about privatization of social security
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Here The gist of it is that some people say it won't work, because it's a pie-slicing scheme, and because overhead would eat any increased profit that might occur vs social security. I haven't really thought about the macroeconomics before, but if *everyone* invested in the market, there would be profound effects for sure. People say that over time the market grows at 10-12% per year, averaged over decades. Why? Because basically corporate profits continue to go up, it's what they do. Why do profits go up? Inflation is one reason, but really its that they sell more goods, and over time learn ways to squeeze more profits from goods. Microsoft is a good example of this. They sell zillions of copies of Windows, and the cost of goods sold (COGS) is very low. It's media after all. Yes the cost of making Windows can be taken into account, but the last time I checked, MS was generating a ton of profit. Now the fun part, why are more goods sold? I think it's because people are always being born, the population number always increases. So corporate profit is generated by people who spend, younger people in other words, not retirees.
So, we get back to the problem of social security; that the young people are paying for the current retirees, and if retirees outnumber young people (workers) then there is a problem. I am not conviced right now that privatization will change this equation, due to the arguement outlined above. I fully expect not to ever be able to use social security, its a gift to the retirees. Young people better start making their own retirement plans, not depend on the govt.
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| Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
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7:00 pm - a pysc blog
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6:58 pm - great medical blog
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Here It has every once in a while the medical grand rounds of blogs, a collection of posts from different blogs. What I like about medical blogs is that they are written by doctors and other practitioners, so the content tends to be more believable, its an informed opinion, rather, than, say me giving forth on the mysteries of sleep apnea. Instead the sleep disorder expert talks about it's various facets.
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3:17 pm - blog etiquette
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Covered by this article in the NYT. Registration required. (user: member101 password: bugmenot (btw, you can bypass registration links for many newspaper sites using this website: bugmenot). Anyway the crux of the article I think, is this: don't reveal personal details to the world at large, don't publish anything you don't want to come back and haunt you, know your audience, hide your identity. Don't reveal private figures by full name (public figures like Bush or Kerry are okay). One new years resolution is to increase readership from the current 3. I like my blog and I enjoy news analysis, and don't really care who reads it, but hope I can get more people involved.
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2:57 pm - people in the abortion fight just don't get it
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Here's a speal about the bizarre Kansas murder of a pregnant woman and the kidnapping of her baby. Very interesting case indeed, but this columnist is incised that the fetus was somehow distorted by the press into the word 'baby'. Here's a clue. When the assailent killed the mom and did a postmortum c-section, she gave birth to the baby. Here's the definition of a fetus: (from dictionary.com)- The unborn young of a viviparous vertebrate having a basic structural resemblance to the adult animal.
- In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth, as distinguished from the earlier embryo.
So it was a 'fetus', but when forcefully birthed by that asshat murderess, it became a 'baby'. Not that hard. And not a conspiracy to undermine abortion rights either. Idiots.
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1:08 pm - And I thought I was having a bad day
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11:47 am - (*$% the christmas spirit
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So the daily barrage of hate-christmas news isn't bad enough (ie no one is allowed to say merry xmas, but they can say happy rammadan or happy haunica (sp). The main-stream media delights in fear, in chaos, and in depression. It is, by definition evil in it's core.
So my car trouble has finally ended, i guess; it had random problems starting; my friend and I replaced the battery, it started once then died. Then the tow truck driver who was going to tow the car to a repair shop got it to work by tightening the terminal. I asked the repair shop to check everything out, they found nothing and charged me $60. I now have no confidence that the car won't die suddenly again, since they didn't fix the problem.
So now I am trying to get my phone situation squared away, the DSL people have delightfully stopped my 'discounted' service and jacked the bill up to $50. I only found out by calling of course. Then I actually tried to get access to my online account. It died months ago, and I have had zero luck with it. After 3 seperate departments, and 45 minutes wasted, I have no clue. They keep transfering me to various departments of DSL, thinking it's a connection problem. They are a bunch of fucking idiots, I can't believe people like that are allowed to breed. Let me sum it up, I HATE THE PHONE COMPANY. Argh. Thanks for wasting my day. Thanks for ensuring that I'll be at lab until midnight, because I kept hoping that surely they could fix the problem. This is bs.
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| Monday, December 20th, 2004
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3:25 pm - inspirational
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Found an unusual story about a WWII soldier (US) who was taken captive during the battle of the bulge in Dec 1944. Unusually, he kept notes of his ordeal (link is here) Its' a very long story and I'll paraphrase, he ended up walking some 500 miles in Germany as a result of the Allies approaching from France. In his four months of captivity, he lost 50 lbs (from 170 lbs), and was about to die when the Americans caught up to him. The German treatment of POWs was horrific, not necessarily because of cruelity but becaues of lack of resources - as the Allies destroyed supply lines it also ensured that the POWs, at the bottom of the food chain, would get close to nothing. The miracle is that he survived it all.
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12:01 pm - Firefox share gaining
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The big news on the internet is Broswer Wars II. Basically the open-source Mozilla foundation, the remenants of the Netscape internet browser, undertook a 3 year project to make a new, better, faster browser. THe result is firefox. Its a very fast, verstile, easy browser, it has built-in viral/spam protection, is more secure than Internet Explorer, and is free. Already 5% of Internet users have it, which is huge considering that it was released a month or two ago.
Story is here. Firefox website is here
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| Saturday, December 18th, 2004
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5:42 pm - shit i'm ordering pizza
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Well i can't get the car to start, so i can't hang out with the guys and play D&D, and i can't do errands, and I don't really want to bike to work cause it's freaking cold. I replaced the battery, it started for 5 min, we washed down some of the acid buildup, and two hours later it won't start at all. Shit shit shit. I'll have to tow it on Mon i guess. On the plus side i just ordered from papa johns online, this is so cool!
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