meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Belize A Go Go

Hot. Lots of fish. Big fish. And coconuts. Finally cracked open a random coconut and feasted wildly on its raw untamed flesh. A bit rangy. So much for childhood dreams.

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Big Country

Just finished driving 3,900 km (2,400 miles)  from San Francisco to Sylvania. Left on Wednesday, arrived today. Drove through three time zones. Saw lots of landscape. I now have a visceral feel for how wide...

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Limits to Growth

Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these external firewire dual cases, did the EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup. The sad...

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DNS

Server is visible again from most parts of the Internet – the slowdown was updating DNS. It took “24-48 hours” for the Registrar to update its entry, and now it apparently takes another 24...

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Dumbing Down

So we’re moving in a week or so and will be effectively homeless for a couple of months. I am moving the website to a new server for the interim but it is a...

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They Can Be Taught!

American military police yesterday raided a building belonging to the Iraqi ministry of the interior where prisoners were allegedly being physically abused by Iraqi interrogators … According to an al-Jazeera television crew, who had...

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Involuntary Mobilization

The US Army is planning an involuntary mobilization of thousands of reserve troops to maintain adequate force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan … the last time the Individual Ready Reserve, mainly made up of...

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Same Donkey Different Saddle?

Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990’s to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities...

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Penny Wise

The insurgency took root during the occupation’s first few months, when the Coalition Provisional Authority seemed oddly disengaged from the problems of postwar anarchy. But what was Paul Bremer III, the head of the...

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Party Like It’s 1989

Economists at HSBC on Friday waded into the debate over whether the U.S. housing market is overinflated, declaring a bubble exists, something the Federal Reserve has been reluctant to do … “Prices are 10...