http://www.sethsblog.com Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:11:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the middle of the night I threw what I had left in my apartment into my rental truck and took off for New Jersey. 650 miles later I'm at the Tennessee/Arkansas border lying in a kind of gross motel room bed. At least they have free wifi :). Will I ... http://www.sethsblog.com/goodbye-texas Most Americans can agree that the Bush administration has made a lot of mistakes over the past seven and a half years. The biggest blunder isn't Iraq, the economy, Katrina, or getting caught in any number of embarrassing moments. No, the worst thing they've done is get the American people ... http://www.sethsblog.com/bush-is-the-john-gotti-of-politics The servers that handle email for the House of Representatives is overloaded. So much so that they're limiting the email that gets through. What's not clear is on what basis are they rejecting the email? It's very possible to setup a rule to bounce messages based on a regular expression. Anything ... http://www.sethsblog.com/congress-filters-email A group within the European Union is having trouble with Google's privacy issues such as keeping logs for over 6 months. Really? Doesn't the UK, a primary member of the EU have cameras on every corner? Aren't there dozens of new YouTube videos every day about some British office abusing the ... http://www.sethsblog.com/european-hypocrisy "Live like you were going to die tomorrow; Learn like you were going to live forever" - Mahatma Gandhi http://www.sethsblog.com/live-and-learn Here's a site that aggregates stuff on C-SPAN and other generally boring channels. There's usually some great nuggets hidden on these channels but you have to sit around for hours to find them. Here you can let some asshole do it for you and pick up the feed. C-SPAN Junkie/ http://www.sethsblog.com/link-share Well, I'm changing jobs again. The job seems pretty interesting this time. It's working on high performance computing clusters for the Department of Defense. I haven't done that type of work before but they seem to think I have enough Linux experience for the position. I'll get paid a small fortune so ... http://www.sethsblog.com/another-new-job The Army is stationing a full BCT or brigade combat team inside the United States to assist with civil unrest and crowd control within our borders. It's clear to me that they are expecting riots in the near future and are looking to prepare early to prevent the out of control ... http://www.sethsblog.com/things-are-getting-scary I found this funny comic book style slideshow explaining the subprime mortgage problem. Found here Using the full screen link (second icon in from the bottom right) is the best way to view it. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: subprime mortgages) http://www.sethsblog.com/simple-guide-to-understanding-the-subprime-mess I went ice skating the other night and was watching this older guy skate. He was spinning and twirling like a little girl. Judging by his age and gut I wouldn't have expected it but he was actually pretty graceful. Here's an image I snapped from my phone. http://www.sethsblog.com/old-skater-dude