FUCK YOU!

I was going to address this to the US Senate the the US Administration. But you know what? They were simply elected by the people they represent. Whether or not they are carrying out the wishes of those who elected them, I'm unsure, but if they are not, the voters have allowed this to happen. So this is for you America. FUCK YOU!



For those that don't know, don't care, don't pay attention, don't whatever, the US Sentate has voted in legislation eliminating habeas corpus for "enemy combatants", as defined by the US Administration, and condoning torture, flying in the face of the Geneva Convention. Lord knows, I'm probably an "enemy combatant" for this blog.

If I was living in the United States now (And this is one of many reasons I happily live in New Zealand now), I would be very close to picking up a gun. Maybe I could manage to wait till the elections in November, or even see what happens in 2008. The difference in many cases between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is the label given by those in power who are being attacked by said "terrorists". By your definition of the word, George Walker Bush, you corrupt, power hungry, moronic son of a bitch, George Washington was a terrorist.

GEEK - Additionally...

Trying to mount an SMB or CIFS share on my Windows box so I can play MP3s in amaroK (Which rocks) instead of Totem Movie Player (Which is "okay").. amaroK doesn't like playing files from Nautilus via smb:/, and mount from a terminal or via SMB4K just barfs (And lots of people seem to have the same question, but not a lot of answers). Most common answer seems to be "Use NFS, not SBM". Nice...:-(

Think there was something else, but I can't remember what it is...[Edit] Oh! That's right! Getting Sound Juicer to rip to MP3 (With id3 tag) rather than OGG.

LIFE - What am I up to?

I just wanted to take a second to record what I'm up to at the moment.

I have just finished reading:

The Communist Manifesto

...Before that I read:

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

....Currently reading:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

...Waiting to be read:

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Bill Clinton: My Life

Geeky/techie stuff I'm working on (Why is "geeky" with a "Y" and "techie" is with "IE"? English is a stoopid language.):

* The Linux experiment continues, though I'm using Ubuntu 6.0.6.1 now.
* Getting wireless network with WPA to work under said Linux distro (Grrr!!!)
* Getting hardware 3D acceleration working with said Linux distro (Grrr!)
* Getting Active Directory authentication working with said Linux distro (Yeah right)
* Running Windows XP under VMWare in Ubuntu
* Getting reading to play with Mac OS 10.4 under VMWare in Ubuntu
* Testing MS ISA 2004 on my upgraded server
* Testing MS WSUS 3 Beta 2 on same server (Broken since ISA 2004 install)
* Trying to spend a little more time paying attention to stuff on the Interwebs. I've been away too long.

This is all of course of top of being a dad. Books are allocated time on the bus to and from work (I have no idea how that will work with my plans to cycle to work in future. I guess it won't). And the geeky/techie stuff fits in somwhere between the hours of 1800 and 0300...

LIFE - Cool...

We've received a request through a Flickr user preparing a presentation for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust to use this photo:


20040925f Visiting Otara Market in Auckland

...in a presentation they are giving. Cool...:-)

GEEK - LOL!

Oops.

Oh. And while I'm hear. This can't be real.

LIFE - Famous last words

So we're sitting around chatting while we change Kat. Now I've carried her around without a nappy heaps and she's never peed on me. She did so in the shower once, and in the bath once, but that's different. So we'd been cuddling for a while and Megz has been holding her the most. She passes me Kat and says "Wow. Still dry,", and I'm like "I think she actually makes an effort not to pee on us". As the "...us" left my mouth I suddenly felt this warmth spreading down my lap. I looked down to see a large puddle in my lap. I looked at Kat who had this "Uh oh" look on her face. In the mean time Megz proceeds to ROTFLOL. Oh well.