I’ve been getting a lot of comments spam in the past few days trying to improve the pagerank of some online pharmacy. Firewall rules haven’t been that effective, since these appear to be sent by robots running on zombied machines across a number of IP nets. Turning on moderation was also not particularly [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was stuck in the queue at Sam’s Club waiting for new tires for the Honda. The mechanic told me it’d take a couple of hours before they’d even get to my car, so I might as well go out and get some food (it was around noon) and [...]
I finally got around to getting new tires for the Civic. I used Sam’s Club, which had relatively inexpensive tires and installation charges, and wound up with Goodyear Regatta 2 tires, as these seemed to be most appropriate, given what Sam’s Club had in stock for this car. Everything is running much more [...]
A follow-up to the mail server upgrade from a few weeks ago, and we’ve wound up upgrading Sendmail and Cyrus to the FC3pre versions (8.13.1 and 2.2.6, respective). These simple upgrades didn’t fix things, but I think the following did:
The mail server at work had a few intermittent issues which I suspect is due [...]
Nine Innings From Ground Zero is HBO’s new documentary on baseball in the weeks following 9/11, where this game fulfilled some of its brilliant promise — “they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters…. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be [...]
It had to happen sooner or later, so I guess my third class was going to be it. The instructor, after the class was doing shomenuchi iriminage, said that we were going to do the technique again with different partners, but tori should try to not clobber uke’s throat with his arm on the [...]
To reiterate: we are near the beginning of a decades-long conflict that must end with the entrenchment of liberalism and liberal ideas in the Islamic parts of the world. Such a cultural shift will span presidencies and generations, but is the only way we can address the root causes of apocalyptic terrorism. We [...]