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Katrina is still a tropical storm, expected to become a weak category 1 hurricane before it hits the coast near Fort Lauderdale tonight or tomorrow morning. We’re already getting lots of rain. This storm is expected to be mostly rain rather than heavy winds.

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TPMCafe points out a good thing about Bush getting re-elected (exactly as I predicted in this entry on Nov. 6): The situation in Iraq will continue to deteriorate. He’ll struggle to clean up his own messes and he wouldn’t be able to blame it on Clinton or the Democrats. By 2008 the country will be [...]

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Lizard

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

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It looks like Tropical Storm Katrina (which may become Hurricane Katrina) is going to hit Broward County late tomorrow or early Friday. If it becomes a hurricane, it probably won’t go above category 1 (about 75 MPH).

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I’m sure everyone’s heard about Google Talk by now. It works in both AdiumX & iChat. I’m on now, so give a holler at mike3k [at] gmail.com.

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Will someone in New York City check out this address:

1285 Avenue of the Americas Suite #3542
New York, NY 10019

I’ve received about 10 spams since this morning listing that address for unsubscribing. These guys are exceptionally obnoxious as spammers go.

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It looks like someone is artificially inflating the read count for the items he posts at MacMegasite. On the 15th, the bandwidth usage was almost 5x the average. 54% of the hits came from a single IP address in Cardiff, Wales. A very short article posted that day got over 1600 hits. Draw your own [...]

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Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, [...]

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I’m the only person who sees the referrer log for this site, so your referrer spam serves absolutely no purpose.

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[mike@blackbox: ~]$ uptime
21:57:30 up 100 days, 1:21, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

My Linux box has been up for 100 days without rebooting so far.

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I’ve released an enhanced version of my ADHOC 2005 showcase hack as Cartooner 1.0. It can be downloaded here, including full source code. Cartooner is free & open source. It requires an iSight and runs in Tiger.

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According to a very nice item at Engadget it does:
We wrote before on Absolute Software’s CompuTrace
LoJack system for laptops, but Forbes decided to put it to the test (well kind of). They gave it a thorough going over, and while we’re not sure we’d want to “sit back and wait for [the laptop] to be [...]

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Via Minipundit: Crooks and Liars has a good listing of Republican statements on Kosovo. Let’s take a glimpse, shall we?
“You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.”
-Tony Snow, Fox News 3/24/99
“Well, I just think it’s a bad idea. What’s going to happen is they’re going to be over there for 10, 15, [...]

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A great item at The Onion (via Boing Boing):
KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, [...]

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Royal Poinciana

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I took this picture with my Motorola V551 on the way home today.

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Via MetaFilter:
It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedom. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques–techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we [...]

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The orchid I planted on a tree last year is blooming again. The roots have now penetrated enough for it to stick to the tree by itself.

My neighbor’s orchid is also blooming.

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Yesterday one single Google crawler accounted for more than 50% of the hits at WorldBeatPlanet.

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I finally upgraded my Mac Mini to Tiger. I’m using it as a media center rather than a desktop system. Everything works perfectly, including TV output, EyeTV, and ATI Remote Wonder.

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