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Isn’t it funny that Dick & Lynne Cheney are making such a stink about Kerry mentioning their daughter in the debate, yet they didn’t say a word when Alan Keyes called her a selfish hedonist:
Expressing support for a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage — an issue that the vice [...]

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Today I finally finished the Linux RAID how-to article I’ve been working on for a few days. I’ve been doing a lot of work with Drupal 4.5 and I’ve managed to fix all of the problems I found. I was able to get the article module working & came up with an improved theme. I [...]

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I recently discovered minipundit, an intelligent, well-written political blog.

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It looks like Wil Wheaton is a Soul Coughing fan. BTW, I discovered that Mike Doughty has a weblog.

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I just found out that TiVo’s Linux source code is available for download.

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I’ve been experimenting with discussion lists at worldbeatplanet, but I’m not at all happy with my web host’s setup.
They have a very brain-damaged Mailman installation that always appends the domain name to the list name and there’s no way to get rid of it. If I create listname@worldbeatplanet.com, the name ends up being listname-worldbeatplanet.com@worldbeatplanet.com [...]

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Mitch Kapor has a new political blog.

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“Superman” actor Christopher Reeve has died of heart failure during treatment for an infection Sunday. Reeve has been confined to a wheelchair since his horseback riding accident in 1995 and has used his visibility to raise funds and promote research into the treatment of spinal cord injuries. Reeve has also been a strong proponent of [...]

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I’ve been testing out the release candidate of Drupal 4.5 for MacMegasite. I’ve rewritten the theme, but a few features still aren’t working, most notably the articles module. I also plan to replace the old file module with the new upload feature.
Once I get it straightened out on the test site (running on my Linux [...]

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I upgraded my DirecTV service to TiVo today. Interestingly the manual includes a GNU General Public License - it turns out the box runs a variety of Linux.
TiVo is great - I can pause & rewind live TV at any time and there are lots of recording options, including a wish list that lets me [...]

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Here’s an interesting article I found. There was actually a language in China written & spoken only by women.
Yang Huanyi, the last surviving writer and speaker of an enigmatic language invented and used only by women in a small pocket of central China, has died. She was believed to be in her late 90s.
Mrs. Yang [...]

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I now have the tape drive working on my server and I was able to make a successful backup. Unfortunately it introduced a new problem: I can no longer burn CDs.
The tape drive (a Seagate TapeStor 20) is connected as the slave device on the same IDE controller with the CDR/DVD combo drive. Both use [...]

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I joined Apple’s iTunes Affiliate program when it was announced. It just got more useful now that they allow links to individual items. I added a page at WorldBeatPlanet with direct links to albums by the artists I mention there.

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I’ve added the second drive & tape backup to my Linux box today. I still haven’t been able to get RAID fully working.
I’m setting up the drive as RAID level 1 with my existing drive and I’m able to get the new drive to be recognized and created a RAID array containing that one drive [...]

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