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I left this in mostly to make Dave happy. :-) Though it doesn't, because Pitas doesn't escape ampersands, and neither do I; the spec is broken on that point.
A Wish, From Me, To You
Please accept with no obligation, expressed or implied, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the holiday practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all -- and...
(deep breath here)
A fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the initiation of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "America" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
(This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.)
Oh, and that old flame who set me on fire for Valentine's Day? Wow. :-)
in the history of technology, Sprint has gotten QChat (the successor Direct Connect technology to iDen) not only working and interoperable, but in trials, and I never even heard about it.
Miley Cyrus has apparently had buyers remorse on what looks to me like a standard Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair photo shoot, and is going on about how horrible she feels, and how that's not the image she wants to project...
though they ran a quote with the pics about how it was artistic and "not skanky", as you would expect from Annie.
C'mon, Miley. Grow up.
You, too, Billy Ray. You both should have known better -- and reportedly, you did; here's the money quote:
Leibovitz said Monday that she and Cyrus had discussed the photos beforehand, and Vanity Fair said "Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day ... everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait." As for Disney, it accused editors of creating a situation "to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old." Disney declined to make anyone connected with "Hannah Montana" available to speak for this article.
Unfortunately for Cyrus, the photos, taken in February, might not have made nearly such a splash but for a bit of awkward timing: They emerged just days after some attention-getting amateur shots of Cyrus hit the Web. In one, she tugs down a tank top to reveal a bright green bra. In another, she lies languidly on her back across a male friend, shirt raised to bare her midriff.
So the timing was terrible. But some celebrity watchers saw the developments as an attempt by Cyrus and her handlers - while not necessarily calculated - to look ahead a few years, beyond the tween audience.
I've been trying to get the incredibly recalcitrant Nagios nrpe proxy facility to work properly, and I discovered the solution to "Could not complete SSL handshake"...
nrpe.conf can *only* have #comments that start in character 1; if you try to put a comment on, say, the end of the allowed_hosts configuration line, it will break, and even after you fix it, you need to remember to restart the daemon before it will actually work.
on my photography website from people searching for Alexis Whitesell, a damned yummy (:-) actress who was part of the cast of HAiR I photographed back in January of last year.
They're mostly from Orlando; is *that* where you landed, Alexis? :-)
no one but my sister seemed to notice -- or at least saw fit to comment on -- the fact that I hadn't posted anything here in a couple of weeks.
Fact is, I got a new job (Weird Al would be proud).
I'm the sysadmin for a company in Largo with about 25 servers and 200 workstations, all running Linux. Ok, ok, we have 15 Windoze workstations and 2 servers, too, but I try not to mention those in public.
I've been busily installing all sorts of open source software to keep my sanity -- I set up a MediaWiki the day I got here, and all the notes on everything else are in it. I'm working on OTRS for ticket tracking, cause it's slightly less stupid than RT -- though I still really wanna write my own -- and I just today set up a skeleton Nagios for monitoring everything.
Yesterday I got ntop running, and discovered that it doesn't do a) what it used to do nor b) what I really want -- which was what it used to do.
What I want is total transfer/throughput per local host, expandable to the active flows. That's what it used to do, before it got all webby, and I don't see *any* way to do that anymore.
It does lots of cool shit, but that's the thing I *want*.
On a side trip, since I got our 10mb/s uplink working, I've been spending a lot of quality time with Radio Paradise (and even sent them $10 :-), and I recommend that you check them out as well.
Today I'm adding more hosts to Nagios, and I got our Core2Quad fileserver to behave itself, finally. Now it's time to move stuff to it.
[ Update: Here's the St Pete Times' nice obit on Jennifer. ]
I'm told that Jennifer Packer, former manager of the Harp and Thistle Pub, and daughter of its owners, Pat and the late Bob Packer -- who has apparently been missing since last night around 9pm -- was just recovered from the waters of Tampa Bay.
The SPB Police are calling this a suicide; an unconfirmed report from an acquaintance of Jennifer's whom I decline to identify, but whom I deem reliable, says that she had been depressed over the actions of the people who bought out the Harp at the last minute when it closed, 4 years ago -- they specifically asked the Packer's to include all the accumulated memorabilia from the pub's 18 year run, as "they wanted to display it all" at the new location.
That new location was attached to a hotel a mile or so south; business didn't take off the way they liked, remodeling of the motel killed their room service food business, and they converted it to a sports bar.
Apparently, most of the incidental accoutrements were merely disposed of along the way.
I'd have been depressed, too.
A service for Jennifer was held Saturday, and a good Irish wake afterwards, at whatever that place is called now that it's a sports bar.
Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 02:17 p.m. - Comment
