Still obsessed with the photos I took last Sunday, I created this little slideshow. Too bad you can’t see it fullscreen, as I can in iPhoto, but it’s still nice and has a couple more pictues than the album in my Photo Gallery [since moved to a Flickr album].
Happy Birthday to me! Another year older and deeper in debt. It’s time to change the age on all my message board profiles. And it’s time to check all the “Today’s Birthday” horoscopes and find out what’s in store for the coming year. Here’s the lame and tame write-up from Eugenia Last in my daily paper, the Detroit Free Press:| Sitting on the fence will lead nowhere this year. Make your move in a powerful and positive manner. You will instill confidence in those who are willing to support your actions. [So that advice works only for people with my birthday? Actually that whole “you will instill confidence in people who are already confident in you” sounds a lot like Bush’s “I will reach out to everyone who shares our goals”. — Does that mean I’m getting political capital today?!] |
| IF NOVEMBER 9 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: It is entirely possible that in the coming year you will feel younger and more vibrant than ever. Your imagination is strengthened, so not only is your creativity enhanced but you will also have the capacity to identify with the plight of others. This developing empathy may widen your horizons and enrich your spiritual life. Watch for beneficial people and situations in May or early June that can help you make your most heartfelt desires grow into reality. [Yay, I’m going to see a naked lady next summer!] |
| IF NOV. 9 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: This is going to be a very action-packed year for you, with lots of new projects to tackle. If you get started right now, you’ll receive accolades and honors in February and March. Challenges in late spring will yield a fun and exciting summer and fall. [Pah, that sounds like too much work.] For the most part, you’re in for a passionate and very enjoyable love life this year. [Wow, you almost had me going there.] Your lucky numbers are 1, 15, 34, 49 and 33. |
| IF NOV. 9 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Rhythm and blues singer Sisqo (1978) shares your birthday. [At last! The reason for my existence is revealed!] Because you know how to appreciate the moment, sometimes others are hypnotically magnetized to you. (You know how to have fun!) You live close to the edge because you love of the thrill of discovery. The year ahead can be one of the most powerful years of your life. [I think this is Sisqo’s.] |
| The moon’s eclipse of Jupiter on your birthday will either be profoundly inspiring or profoundly depressing, depending on whether you are the kind of Scorpio who sees the glass as half full or half empty. [What about the Scorpio who sees the glass as twice as big as it needs to be? (Thank you George Carlin.)] The fact is, it is your own attitude that creates your environment. If you want the world to be a nicer place, be a nicer person. [Well screw you then! (Sheesh, what’s with this confrontational attitude?)] |
| Your personal ruling planet is Mars. You are governed by the bold and energetic Mars which brings to the fore your active, passionate and impulsive nature. The upside is you do not like laziness of any sort so work and physical activity are activities at which you excel. [Errrm…no.] Your lucky colours are red, maroon and scarlet and autumn tones. [Actually that’s not far wrong.] Your lucky gems are red coral and garnet. [Once again, not bad. My high school ring is garnet. (And my least favorite bird is the gannet. They wet their nests.)] Your lucky days of the week are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. [Those aren’t the weekend, silly.] Your lucky numbers and years of important change are 9, 18, 27, 36. 45, 54, 63, 72. [Well now you sound like Schoolhouse Rock.] Famous people born on your birthday include Ivan Turgenev, Ed Wynn, Tommy Dorsey, Hedy Lamarr, Spiro T. Agnew and Tony Slattery. [Don’t forget Sisqo!] |
What a birthday present! I got what I always wanted: a chance to see the Northern Lights! Earlier today I got an e-mail from Spaceweather.com saying:
Thank God. Despite what this headline [PDF] might say, it looks like Americans are not quite so retarded as first believed. The fact the worst President in American history was re-elected Tuesday might now not be due to some kind of national dementia but because of good old voter fraud. Check out this diagram outlining the relationship of exit polls to the vote count. And notice the disparity in swing states compared to the similarities in other states. Note too how that disparity also correlates to states that relied on easily-manipulatable e-voting machines. Yes, the bastards did it again. They stole another election. Not only in Florida but this time in Ohio too — and no one seems to be talking about it. This makes sites like Black Box Voting.org more important than ever to keep an eye on this rise of the machines. [1:42 AM]
The new Star Wars: Episode III teaser trailer will premiere in theaters tomorrow, preceding Pixar’s The Incredibles. But it debuted online today, minutes ago, for subscribers of AOL and Star Wars.com.
All day I’ve been hearing how Americans disregarded Bush’s obvious gross incompetence and in favor of voting for his morsel values. I find this bewildering since the Republicans hardly have the monopoly on that. I’ve been preaching morsel values for years. Few things are as satisfying as finishing your drive-thru meal and then discovering there’s still a little left at the bottom of the bag!
CNN, via Netscape’s News page, has some choice words for W. Check out the file name of the Bush photo, as listed in Properties. (I did not make the screen grab, which explains the Windows XP interface.)
No, not a second Bush administration. That’s nothing to crow about, unless for some reason you really hate the middle class and want to see them gone. This entry’s title refers to new developments with this here blog.| The horror of Ipowerweb can not be emphasized enough. […] Most recently Ipower had a virus on their server. The following should indicate their lack of concern for customers. This virus went on for days (at least 6 or 7) spreading itself and Ipower treated it like a routine problem. Any of my customers who went to my site got the virus as I√≠m sure was the case for hundreds of other site owners. Even google cache had the virus. Finally, they got rid of the virus, but no followup, no offer of how to help those who got it, and so on. Ipower went back to business as normal, ignoring their customers and offering [no] excuses. |
| Today has been a disaster. I have 4 sites with ipower and each one is effected by a virus on their server (their server has the virus—host 66). When I go to one of my sites, I’m asked if I want to download some software, which their is know way to escape, than I’m redirected to a porn site. Meanwhile, my computer is infected by a virus that destroys my software. I called Ipower and they are aware of the problem. I have emailed them several times wanting to know the status, what is the virus name and how to fix it locally since it has infected my local computer as well. What amazes me is that Ipower is aware of this virus on the server, yet they let the websites (they have thousands of sites on this host), keep running and spreading the virus to other users who go to those sites. Isn’t there somewhere to report such irresponsibility? Ipower doesn’t seem to be to concern about how this virus is effecting other people. It’s as if they don’t want to admit their is a problem. Anyways, this has been going on since I woke up this morning. It is now 3pm. So in those hours Ipower could of spread virus to thousands of other computers, the fact that the virus redirects customers to pron site, is hurting the reputation of the domain names and they have no estimate when it will be fixed nor will they provide a solution to fix it locally. Isn’t there a place you can report this type of problem to? Ipower sure doesn’t seem to care. |
Evidently John Kerry has conceded to George Bush, giving up on that whole “every vote counts, every vote counted” American pipedream. I however do not concede. Fox News and NBC can color Ohio however they want. I refuse to play along. I refuse to allow George Bush to foul up my country any further. He is not my president. Not in my name. And to belabor this string of protest chants: the revolution is just a t-shirt away…
This entry marks the end of the last SQL backup on pMachine. Although pMachine will continue to be used, all subsequent entries are copied from an Expression Engine backup, being the successor to pMachine.
