The server’s been hanging intermittently for the past few weeks. It’s not clear what’s wrong: there’s nothing interesting in /var/log/messages, Red Hat kernels should be sufficiently stable nowadays and I keep up to date on patches. Probably, it’s hardware, something along the lines of bad RAM or a flakey motherboard. There might [...]
Sensei Ivan chatted with us after class, and noted that one reason my right wrist is a bit sore from kotegaeshi because I my ukemi isn’t as quick as it could be. My weight/butt hangs back (bad posture) and it takes a half second longer than it should to start ukemi. Again, it’s [...]
Slate has an article on websites talking about the war, ranging the gamut from the antiwar camp to the jingoistic-bordering-on-self-parody.
Interesting ones:
BBC’s Reporter’s Log
Intel Dump, run by an ex-Army officer and strategic planner, which is supposed to be a good source for real-time military analysis.
Slate unfortunately missed the very good Command Post, which is basically a [...]
PBS has put up the very good documentary I saw bits and pieces of last Monday. It’s about the development of America’s current national security policy, in particular the transformation of the Middle East.
While I’m in favor of military action in Iraq, I still want the anti-war crowd to come up with good arguments. Such things promote necessary debate. Discredited Leninist sloganeering, on the other hand, reduces the quality of debate to that of a shouting match. I cringed when watching Michael Moore go off [...]
An article in Slate provides a quick history lesson on American anti-war protests, that have occurred in every conflict, including the Revolutionary War.
In American history in particular, wartime dissent has a venerable lineage. Even during that most mythic of causes, the Revolution, fully one third of Americans opposed independence, in John Adams’ famous estimate, while [...]
I signed the contract for the apartment this evening. It’s on its way to be signed by the owner, when it becomes official, and then comes the race to file documents:
Co-op board application: this has to be filed ten days after the contract comes into effect. I have to email the co-op board [...]
A couple of notes, mostly. The main thrust of these pieces is that setbacks in war are obviously to be expected, though we may forget that fact. Sentiments may cycle between wild optimism and dark despair daily, because the US hasn’t fought a particularly long war in a generation, because our news cycle [...]
The current project involves VBScript for the server-side scripting language. There may be some performance issues with the DB connections we’re using. Here’s a couple of articles on connection pooling for ASPs:
Correct ASP (ADO 2.1) Syntax to enable Connection Pooling
Microsoft’s HOWTO: Enable or Disable Connection Pooling in IIS 4.0
Our first brown belt test will be in April, probably around the second week. Time for wall work, more stick work, vocabularly memorization, and curling up into fetal position.
At least the web can help with the vocabulary. Here’s a good site for the name of judo throws: Judoinfo.com for the drawings and for [...]