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From Sun-Sentinel:
A campaign by conservative and religious activists to amend the state Constitution to ban gay marriage used Valentine’s Day to launch its petition drive.
At County Hall in Miami-Dade County, the Christian Family Coalition and other religious and community groups said that although Florida law already prevents two men or two women from getting married, [...]

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I just added an Adaptec FireWire/IEEE1394 card to my Linux box.
At first, my network interface was disabled because it tried to use FireWire for en0. I was able to fix it easily by simply removing the ieee1394 ethernet module and everything worked fine after that. I connected a Mac formatted FireWire drive, mounted it with [...]

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Congratulations to Youssou N’dour for winning the Grammy.

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Via Keith Explains!: Peace in the Middle East is easier than you think.

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Garden, originally uploaded by mike3k.

This is my friend’s vegetable & herb garden. I just picked up some vegetable & herb seeds, which I started in peat pellets on my patio.

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Midnight, originally uploaded by mike3k.

I took this picture of Midnight the same time as I took the last one of Cody. Both of them were napping before I walked into the room.

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Cody, originally uploaded by mike3k.

I haven’t posted any pictures of Cody for a while, so here’s one of him waking up from a nap.

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music-map.com is very addictive. Enter the name of an artist, and it will show related artists.

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It looks like our wingnuts forgot that Canada is a separate country and decided to butt in there.
Via Gay Geeks.org: As the canadian MPs are on the way to look upon the “gay marriage” legislation. They are submersed by phones/fax/emails from theirs constituents, which is normal. But also by Americans who apparently don’t know there’s [...]

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My friend’s web hosting provider went out of business, taking his site with them. They’re holding his data and they own his domain name, so nobody can transfer it. Once everything gets straightened out, I’ll be hosting his site. I found that Dreamhost lets me create a full-fledged separate username with its own home directory [...]

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I just found out that Jazz great Jimmy Smith has died. I’ve always been a huge fan. When I was a teenager, I played piano, organ and keyboards, and Jimmy was my inspiration. I always tried to imitate his sound.

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This is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. (Via Boing Boing)

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Polka Dot Plant, originally uploaded by mike3k.

This is the first time I’ve seen this bloom.

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I finally fixed a communication problem I’ve been working on for a few weeks caused by a timing issue. It’s lots of fun trying to debug something in which you can’t use a debugger. Since it’s timing dependent, the only way to debug is by putting in lots of debugging messages and watching the log [...]

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Via Plastic: After the elections in Iraq, the new Prime Minister wants Islam to be the official religion, use the Koran as the basis for the Constitution, listen to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani when writing laws, and will be close to Iran. Um… oops.
It looks like we really improved things in the Middle East. Just [...]

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Once again the subject of Alberto Gonzales came up in WWDN. Isn’t it funny how the Republicans try to paint everything as a racial issue? They don’t see Gonzales as a man; they see him as a Hispanic and a representative of all Hispanics. Therefore, when anyone opposes him they oppose all Hispanics. The issue [...]

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Since yesterday, I’ve been getting a lot of EARN MONEY ONLINE comment spam from India at MacMegasite. When I see more than one spam, I take a very heavy-handed approach of blocking that person’s entire ISP or even the entire IP address range of their country if it’s in Asia. I’m now blocking several ISPs [...]

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Maya Marcel Keyes, the daughter of Alan Keyes, a notoriously homophobic right-winger, is out of the closet. This is the same Alan Keyes who called Mary Cheney a “hedonist”, which her father found less offensive than Kerry simply acknowledging that she’s gay. It looks like he’s kicking Maya out of the house. Compassionate conservatism?

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Due to the way permissions are set up on MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet, when a non-administrative user submits a story they’ll get an error ‘access denied’ even though the story is submitted properly. This happens because Drupal tries to display the newly submitted article, which is unpublished. However, non-administrative users can’t view unpublished items, so they [...]

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From sfgate.com:
Are you using a PC? You probably have spyware. The McAfee site claims a whopping 91 percent of PCs are infected. As every Windows user knows, PCs are ever waging a losing battle with a stunningly vicious array of malware and worms and viruses, all aimed at exploiting one of about ten thousand security [...]

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