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Megan and I redid the kitchen! It’s mostly her doing, although I did a lot of the furniture assembly. We repainted and redecorated. In somewhat related news, is there some place like Flickr and SmugMug that’s actually free? I thought the holidays went really well, although I personally was sick for most of Thanksgiving day [...]

Here are some links that will be helpful if you want to get Trac set up successfully on eApps. http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.3.2/rhel-4/bin/ http://projects.standblue.net/rpms/trac/rhel4/ http://support.eapps.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=114

The blog has found its next home. The poor thing. It might not be anywhere close to finished, either. I’m not sure where it will be housed next. I’m fairly certain that the next event will be a transformation into a Mephisto backed blog with a custom theme (although I may start with the one [...]

There is nothing in the Constitution requiring candidates to be listed on the ballot with their party affiliations, and, if you think about it, the custom of doing so is vaguely undemocratic. It makes elections a monopoly of the major parties, by giving their candidates an enormous advantage?the advantage of an endorsement right there on [...]

So, I took a few pictures of the various sections a few weeks ago, and now it’s up on the web. View Jim and Megan’s garden! I didn’t go the flickr route except with a couple of them. And I have a problem spending $30 on something that my linux tools do at least a [...]

Get a free 80-hour TiVo unit when you sign up for a service plan. I am pretty sure that the first plan is $14.95 a month, and, if you watch TV at all, it’s an excellent deal. You can actually watch the shows you want to watch, and the wish-list taping is an incredible way [...]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That [...]

American Sphinx, which reminded me that it is time to acquaint myself more closely with American political history—beginning with Team Of Rivals, a recent Abraham Lincoln biography. Lincoln was born during Jefferson’s administration, though I wonder if it’s possible for the two men to be more different. Studies in Mutualist Political Economy which I am [...]

Then it?s those evil liberals allying with Al Qaeda to deny you fresh sheets. —Jeremy Weiland

One of Megan’s students asked her a question for her government survey: “Do you feel safer now than you did before 9/11?” I have the hardest time even beginning to answer that question. Is this supposed to be a referendum on Bush’s performance? A meditation on security? An invitation to layman speculation about the potential [...]