Just some tidbits I picked up over at boortz.com If you haven’t been there for his daily news. check it out. A libertarian after my own heart:
George Bush has now approved the resumption of a program to shoot down civilian aircraft suspected of being involved in the drug trade. Mind you, there need to be no proof that the civilian aircraft was actually involved in drugs … just a suspicion. No trial, no jury. You do remember that a fighter jet attacked a Cessna in Peru a few years back. A Baptist missionary and her infant daughter died. All for this ridiculous war on drugs.
You’ve read that thousands of old folks are succumbing to the heat in France . Why? Because they don’t have air conditioning, that’s why. And why don’t they have air conditioning? Because electricity is so expensive in that “advanced” nation that most people simply cannot afford it. Oh, by the way … you can blame government regulation and taxes for the high electricity prices.
Just a couple of nice thoughts to get your day going (now that it is most of the way over).
August 2003
asp and Home Automation
Managed to work up an asp page (only by looking at someone else’s first) that will let me control my HA software through IIS. Have used DesktopX to have a small control on my desktop that will allow me to turn things off and on that way. Pretty cool.
Now just need to figure out how to use forms and controls a little better. I should be able to use Homeseer’s COM interface to just have buttons on my desktop. If it were the same computer I might be able to figure it out a little easier, but this is over my network, which makes it a bit tougher.
PC Rebuild
Spent most of the day rebuilding my system, so have not had a chance to get online. Will probably spend the next couple of evenings reinstalling apps, may not get a chance to post.
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“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” – Thomas Jefferson
New Forum
Just added a couple of new forums to the message bases. One for Legend of the Green Dragon, and a requests forum for the BBS. Feel free to visit and post.
Homeseer
did something to crash my HA server. If you’ve tried to access the HA pages or weather station info, sorry about that. Took an hour or so to restore from backup.
BBS
Took down the web portion of the BBS. I will replace it with phpBB to use for my forums. I have started work on the BBS itself. It is available via telnet at shadowscope.com. When I took the board down three years ago, I had no real backup to speak of except for a mirrored hard drive, which is now bad, so everything is pretty much the default settings and menus for the time being.
Mindless
Solitaire. What a mindless game. $5000 piece of electronic equipment. P4 1.8. Over 1 gb Ram. 128 meg vid card. TV tuner. Serial card. HA software. Firewire. USB 2.0. CD Burner. 15″ Flast screen LCD. Custom case with lots of huge fans, Blinking LED’s, side window with inside lighting.
What am I doing? Listening to 30 year old music and playing frigging solitaire. what a loser. Think it’s time to eat lunch.
[Listening to: Twentieth Century Fox – The Doors – The Doors (02:36)]
Government
“In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.”
—Voltaire
[Listening to: Light My Fire – The Doors – The Doors Box Set 1998 – Band Favorites (07:09)]
Galactic Dust Storm enters Solar System
The Sun’s shifting magnetic field is set to focus a decade-long storm of galactic dust grains towards the inner Solar System, including Earth. Check it out here.