May 2006 Archives

Two weeks! It's been 14 days since I last posted anything. That sucks.

Things are a lot busier. Spending 8 to 10 hours a day doing someone else's work makes it really hard to find time to do the work you want to do. Such is life, I guess.

My friend Tim & his wife finally had their baby. Welcome Jake into the world. Tim mentioned that his night's sleep has been reduced to a series of two hour naps but he claims he adjusting to that fairly well. In any case, congrats to Tim and his family.

Lately I've been revisiting my interest in Country music. Especially Bluegrass. A song called, I Want My Rib Back by the Charlie Sizemore Band is really funny. The Dollar by Jamey Johnson cost me a hundred bucks. After listening to the song I went to Fry's electronics and bought a second game controller for our PS2 and Time Crisis 3. My son and I now spend a lot more time doing things he likes to do. My teenage daughter is a different story but I'm working on that one two.

NPR's Morning Edition ran a piece on the Iraqi Oil Delivery Platforms talking about the cooperation between US and Iraqi forces guarding them. I was a member of the forces that established that mission in April of 2004. The piece was interesting in that it is one of the few news items that talks about Iraqi forces taking over their own security. The mission on the oil platforms is being turned over to the Iraqis. It is frustrating to me that we don't see more coverage of this. Iraqi forces are moving out to begin taking over security in Iraq.

Aloha

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Technorati Tags: iraq, life, music, political

From the beginning I wanted smittie.com as my domain. Someone had registered it and was offering it for sale. Initially, the web page said that the minimum offer that would be considered was $500. Some months later it was $850. Today, it is $1230. However, they accepted a significantly lower offer from me.

So, I am now the proud owner of smittie.com which I think is hella cool. Over the weekend I'll be moving my personal web pages over there. Smittieandcompany.com will be an info page for the business dealing of Smittie & Company, Inc.

Aloha

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Yesterday there was a national protest dubbed, Day Without Immigrants. In the late afternoon I could hear the protesters marching by my office chanting something I couldn't hear well enough to understand. The core of this issue and the cause of the protest is the McCain-Kennedy bill (H.R.2330, S.1033).

It is interesting to me that in all of the ranting and chanting there is almost no representation of the many other people groups that comprise the immigrant community in America. I haven't seen any Koreans, Indians (from India, not Native Americans) or Chinese in the protesting masses. None of the Middle Eastern immigrants. None of the other groups that immigrate, by the thousands, to America each year.

And I don't see anyone pointing out the fact that securing our land borders would only be making the immigration more fair. It is entirely unfair that people who have chosen to circumvent the laws of this country are given any kind of privilege over the thousands of people who adhere to the laws and abide by the process of legal immigration.

Aloha

Technorati Tags: commentary, political, sociology

SANS jumps on the sensationalism bandwagon, claiming a 'sharp increase' in Mac OS X 'flaws'. 52 'flaws' were found in 2005. Bah.

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