I never quite bought into the entire “global warming” thing. Sure, maybe the climate was changing some. It happens. Did we (humans) cause it in its entirety? Probably not. Are we another factor in a system so insanely huge that we don’t have any accurate models at all yet? Yep. Ever hear of the butterfly effect? That’s us, in the grand scheme of things.

Whilst it is good to take care of the planet we live on, things must be done within reason. We borrow our plante from our decendents, lets take care of it. Use common sense, don’t litter, take care of your vehicle. If you don’t need a hummer, don’t buy a hummer. Lets get more nuclear plants, those wind powered things just aren’t going to cut it. These are all reasonable steps in the right direction.

Yeah, this is intolerable. The bailout itself was intolerable, but this is worse.

Were we not promised transparency and accountability?

I think Anyterm might be better at operating at lower bandwidths, but ajaxterm blows it away in terms of pure simplicity to set up. If you’ve got your own server, all it needs is some python, and then some apache magic. it starts up it’s own server, so theoretically you could run it standalone, but I’m not certain of the wisdom of this.

I’m mostly impressed with how simple it is to make it work. You can run it as root, and it’ll use “login” or you can run it as any user, and it’ll run “ssh localhost”. The running as a normal user is probably safer, but you have to have some sshd on the system.

Groovy feels like Ruby (the name even sounds like it!) but it’s closer to java than Ruby is. That’s good for me to rapidly do stuff. I’ve found that whilst I do enjoy learning new languages and new frameworks, when I want to get stuff done learning the stuff is somewhat of a hindrance for me. Groovy, and it’s framework Grails, shows promise to be the best of both worlds. I (possibly foolishly) purchased the PDF and the Paper copy of Programming Groovy from the Pragmatic Programmers.

I think that if I were to have a favorite publisher, it’d be them. They’re fairly new, about five years old, and located in Texas. I’ve spent more on books through them than just about anywhere else. And I haven’t been dissappointed yet. I also purchased Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. I’m hoping this will help me become more proficient in learning things. It also is somewhat of an interesting subject to me; mastering the mind to further enhance my ability to learn and become an expert in my field.

If you’re looking for some good programming books, I can highly reccomend The Pragmatic Bookstore.

This is great for hardware support and the newer features.

It’s unfortunate that citrix is working so hard to make Xen obsolete. The open source community flourishes when the Release Early, Release Often(tm) doctrine is followed. It keeps people interested, advertises of bugs fixed, and well, is just good publicity. Unless all your releases suck. Of course, Source Mage doesn’t really have “releases” in the typical sense. We release new stable grimoires about every other month now. I may have even had some small contribution to the most recent one. But it’s not a new ISO or something tangible for people. Which seems to be a requisite for some odd reason. I have yet to figure it out…

I should really get my OMFG Automation project up and running. Have been kind of burnt out the last couple days.

Don’t they realize that this man asked for $700 Billion to save our economy? Don’t they realize that this $700 Billion didn’t do ANYTHING? Our economy is in the tank, the dollar is on the verge of collapse, and they want to give this man a medal? He didn’t DO anything.  Well, except for spending $2 trillion without telling you where it goes. Oh! And now the “world’s reserve currency” is set up for a catastrophic failure.

Of course, this is yet another incident of the government rewarding the failures whilst taking money from the ones who succeed. You know, someone at work told me I should take all my money and buy gold. Maybe I should’ve listened…

They need to know that ignoring the people is not right. Ring their phones off the hook, fax the hell out of their fax machines. Fill their email box.

Here’s a letter to help you out, feel free to copy and paste.

Dear <Name of Your Representative>,

Regarding the “new” bailout bill full of pork, there is only one decision that can be made. Do NOT support this bailout bill. I hope and pray that you will make the right decision regarding the “new” bailout bill that’s headed your way from the senate. There is only one decision that can be made. Do NOT support this bailout bill.

This bill is not new. It still has the same problems as the first rejected bill. Now, however, they’ve added more pork in an attempt to buy your vote. The amount of pork is absurd. There are tax breaks in there for the Filmmakers, verbiage to repeal a $0.39 tax on wooden arrows designed for children, and a research tax credit for large corporations. I don’t know how anyone who claims to be a conservative can vote in favor of this in good conscious. This bill is quite possibly the worst, and most pork-laden thing I’ve ever seen come out of the Federal Government.

Our representatives seem to have forgotten the meaning of the word “representative.” Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman said after his “yes” vote, “It was the right thing to do. I think people put the interests of the American people above party politics. The calls were 100 to one against this. But it is the right thing.” (from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26973888/) How on earth can this be the right thing to do, when he’s getting 100 to one calls against this?!? Representatives are elected to represent, not to dictate.

This bill is hastily thrown together and unnecessary. We need to slow down, suppress our knee-jerk reaction, use common sense, and let the market heal itself. This bill will give money and power to the very same people that helped facilitate this housing bubble in the first place! Not to mention, it’s the same people who, only a few weeks ago, were telling us that everything is okay, that we’re not in a recession. It sets a terrifying precedent for government intervention in free market dealings. This is not the correct solution. It’s not a conservative solution. This is a solution that expands government dramatically. Finally, this will only prolong our problem. This buys up “bad debt” but perpetuates the system that produced the “bad debts” in the first place! What we’re dealing with here is change. The market is trying to change so that something new and better can replace this which is failing. Resisting the change is like damming up a river; the pressure is going to build, and when the dam bursts, it’s going to be far worse than it was before.

Do NOT support this pork laden bailout bill.

This is ridiculous. The government has absolutely no right to place the burden of a failing company on the tax payers. If the corporation is crappy, it needs to die. This is simply capitalism at work; it hurts, but it works.

We need to stop our congress from making things worse and placing a burden of greater than $700 BILLION on the taxpayers.

Government - If you think the problems we create are bad, wait until you see our solutions.