Archive for September, 2004

Comments Spam

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004 | 14:23

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 … Continue reading »

The DaVinci Code

Monday, September 27th, 2004 | 09:15

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 … Continue reading »

New Tires

Saturday, September 18th, 2004 | 09:48

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 … Continue reading »

Sendmail/Cyrus issues and integration

Saturday, September 18th, 2004 | 09:33

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 … Continue reading »

Nine Innings From Ground Zero

Friday, September 17th, 2004 | 23:43

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 … Continue reading »

First week of Aikido

Thursday, September 16th, 2004 | 15:26

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 … Continue reading »

Year Four

Sunday, September 12th, 2004 | 13:38

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. … Continue reading »