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Via Metafilter: Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of famed New York punk band “The Ramones” has died at age 55. His publicist says he died in his sleep yesterday in Los Angeles, after battling prostate cancer for five years. Just this weekend, a tribute concert and cancer research fund-raiser was held in LA, to celebrate [...]

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Via Kicking Ass:
“If Bush wins re-election you’re going to have a very conservative judiciary,” University of Houston political scientist Robert Carp said on Thursday. “An average president puts in about a third of the federal judiciary in two terms, so this really is a watershed year in terms of what happens.”
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“George W. Bush is the [...]

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After reading Jon’s weblog entry, I decided to try Bloglines and I love it. Before Bloglines, I was subscribed to 140 feeds in NetNewsWire and found that I couldn’t keep up with the new items.
Since there are only a few feeds I need to monitor continuously, such as VersionTracker & a few Mac news sites, [...]

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Life is returning to normal after hurricane Frances. It now looks like Ivan won’t hit us, so people are taking down their shutters and moving stuff outside. I unsealed my patio doors and moved stuff back out on my patio. I haven’t had a chance to finish taking down the boards yet, but I plan [...]

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As you’ve probably noticed, my site has a new look. The weblog is now integrated with the rest of the site.

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I’ve just installed the latest Firefox and found a pleasant surprise. For any web site with RSS links in the header, it will display little RSS icon in the bottom right corner of the window. When you click the RSS icon, it will add a bookmark folder for that site containing the items in the [...]

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Via Boing Boing Blog: It’s a sad week in music instrument history. First, the death of Donald Leslie, who invented the Leslie Rotating Speaker, which gave Hammond organs their trademark sound. And yesterday, pioneer guitar string maker Ernie Ball gave up the ghost at just 74. Ernie Ball’s strings are as ubiquitous in rock and [...]

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I’ve connected my Epson Stylus C82 to the Linux box and I’ve set up CUPS to allow browsing & remote printing. It took a few hours of trial and error, but I’m now able to print to it from any of my Macs.

The changes to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf were to add the commands:

Browsing On
BrowseAddress 192.168.0.255
BrowseAllow 192.168.0.*

Also, for [...]

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This doesn’t look good. We now have a category 5 hurricane heading towards us. A lot of people are still without power from Frances and there are food & gas shortages in many areas.

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I was just invited to stumbleupon, a new social networking site I wasn’t aware of until now. It requires FireFox because it uses an extension to ’stumble’ on new sites.

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We still had more wind and very heavy rain after my last entry. We now have some very bad flooding in my apartment complex and the surrounding streets. We never lost power, although homes on the other side of the street are still without power. The traffic lights on my street are out. The worst [...]

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The worst of it is over, although we still expect strong winds & rain for a few more hours. I never lost power. We didn’t have any major damage around my building, but we did have a lot of branches down. When it’s safe later today, I will check the rest of the complex. Here [...]

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The winds have been getting stronger for the last few hours. The homes across the street from me have been without power for a while, but we still have power.

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For the first part of the day, Cody was freaking out, running and hiding whenever the wind got really loud, but after a while he went to sleep and seemed to get used to it. Midnight stayed pretty calm most of the time. I put towels around the bottom of my windows & sliding doors. [...]

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We’ve had strong wind & rain most of the day with occasional breaks, although it hasn’t been too bad yet. No major damage. Luckily I still have power. My mother has been without power since 11AM in west Boca.

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The power has already started going on & off and we expect lots of rain and wind today and most of tomorrow. I’ll most likely lose power completely at some point today.

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We just got hit by the first fringe of Hurricane Frances. We’re having wind gusts of about 15-20 MPH and heavy rain. This is just a prelude of what we can expect tomorrow. I had just finished walking around the complex with some of my neighbors removing or securing anything that could become a projectile.

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I have a couple of GMail invites. Drop me a note if you want one.

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Everyone is rushing to do last minute preparations for Hurricane Frances, although it now looks like it won’t hit until late tomorrow, rather than tonight as originally predicted. We’re removing everything outside our buildings which could turn into a projectile and making sure everyone clears off their patio. At 2PM we’re walking around the [...]

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I went to buy gas today in preparation for the storm. The first gas station I tried was out of gas, but the second one was still full. I waited about 20 minutes in line, but I got gas.

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