It took me awhile to find this one. When I start Radio it tries to open a web page at 127.0.0.1:5335. If I tried localhost:5335 it worked. For some reason the ISA firewall was getting the request. Naturally it refused to allow me to do it. It didn't know any better but it shouldn't have been involved. I never had to do this before but I had to code 127.0.0.1 into the ISA client configuration for the web browser and hard code 127.0.0.1 as a site I could go directly to and then reboot my client workstation. I think this is a result of my change to using automatic configuration.

“This analysis will endeavor to address some of those concerns, but I will be quite frank: this was a definitive victory for al-Qaeda.“

A comprehensive article explaining why al-Qaeda picked on Spain and why it is a victory for Al-Qaeda. Acts of terrorism can cause people to vote more emotionally rather than rationally and may give elected officials the wrong message of how they need to respond. Terrorism blackmail works and Europe is the target.

Love Canal Declared Clean, Ending Toxic Horror. Love Canal was clean enough to be removed from the Superfund list two decades after it became the first site on the list. By Anthony Depalma. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

I used to work for Occidental Chemical so I got more familiar with some of the details of the Love Canal problems. When I started work for them I was surprised to find out that the dumping occured before I was born. I thought it occurred in the 1960's but was surprised to find out it occurred in the 1940's.  I was also surprised to find out that this site was a state of art storage facility for chemicals in its day. The canal was ideal since it was clay lined to prevent leakage. The canal was capped and covered with top soil. When Occidental sold the land to the city for one cent, it was agreed the land would be used as a park. Somehow the city forgot about the dump and sold the land to developers. People putting in utilities and roads finally broke the canal but ignored the results. The position of Occidental Chemical was that almost everyone had some blame. The federal goverment was the primary customer of Occidental's products and advisor, Occidental because they made the products, the city because they sold the land to developers, and the state because it was their road crews who broke the canal. The end result was the Superfund legislation and the realization “we” had made some serious environmental mistakes throughout the country.

I have been real bugged with Sharepoint asking me to login problem. It only does this in Office 2003. I can add documents via the web browser just fine. Its bad enough that it asks me but then it doesn't like my password so nothing works. I have tried a bunch of things but ended up wandering away to my ISA problem.

My ISA problem was that I was not using the web proxy because the http redirector was stopping my access. My fix was to have the http redirector route directly which bypassed the web proxy. I ended up looking at this problem because  it was like the authentication problem like the one I have with Sharepoint. I ended up tweaking and cleaning up the configuration. The tweaking involved implementing automatic configuration and cleaning up the site and content rules. After looking at the log files I figured out only one site and content rule was being used. Authentication was being used on about half the traffic. While I was tweaking I decided to start logging my data into the sql server. It is all well documented except that I had to use the capitalized dsn version in the isa log file setup. The lowercase version did not work?! I now can pull up the latest version of the web proxy log file into Excel.

Do terrorists play election politics?. Spain attacks suggest militants may help oust governments, yet also unite opposition to terrorism. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

I am saddened by Spain's great loss. The loss of life was unexpected and unnecessary. In a way I am sorry for the elected officials. Those who were elected will always be viewed as the officials the terrorists elected. Those who lost their government job by the election will be viewed as casualities of war. Both sides lose.

My son and I went on hockey tournament in Chicago last weekend. I really didn't want to go. I wasn't sure my son wanted to go. The travel hockey season was a real grind . The team is good but they really have to work to win games and the last couple of games were ugly. I guess we wanted to end the season on a good note. We went to Chicago expecting nothing but we planned on having a fun time regardless of the score. Something wonderful happened! They played some of the best hockey they had played all year. They played like a team and won their first two games. The boys got excited about possibly winning the tournament. They probably were over-confident and lost their third game. In the fourth game they played a very good team to a draw at the end of regulation. Just before the end of the overtime one of our defensemen got the puck and tried a shot from the blue line. It is a shot we want him to take but it got blocked. The guy who blocked took the puck and scored on the break away. It was a heart breaking way to lose but we were so proud of them. They really had matured as a team. I think that each one of them understood the importance of their role in playing as a team.

My son and I are going to Chicago for his last hockey tournament of the season. We are both happy and sad to see the end of the season but will relish the rest.

“foo2zjs is an open source printer driver for printers that use the Zenographics ZjStream wire protocol for their print data, such as the Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL. These printers are often erroneously referred to as winprinters or GDI printers. However, Microsoft GDI only mandates the API between an application and the printer driver, not the protocol on the wire between the printer driver and the printer.“

I am not sure why I decided to do a search on Minolta and Linux but I did. I had long since written off my Minolta 2200 Desklaser as a Windows only printer. So I was shocked to find that someone had written a driver and provided instructions on how to install and configure it. I would like to tell you how it went but my Fedora box did not have gcc installed!? Ouch! Boy, am I out of touch!