“One of the things that happened when I switched from Radio Userland to Movable Type, is that RadioExpress! went 404“
This was a test of RadioExpress. This is absolutely cool! Highlight the text you want to blog, click on the RadioExpress favorite, and RadioExpress fills in the blog post form with the title, link, and selected text in quotes.
An excellent summary of the SCO vs. Linux battle. Joe Firmage lays out a persuasive analysis of why he thinks that SCO does not have a case. A lot of people have posted comments about this story on Zdnet.
James Craig of Cookiecrook has written a very nice tutorial called Accessibility Internet Rally 2003 Advanced Training Material. For those of you trying to improve the accessibility of your websites this tutorial can be very helpful because it collects the recommendations in one spot. The notes cover such topics as forms, tables, semantics, CSS basics and accessible CSS. If you are the type of person who needs to see a real-life example to help you understand a concept, these notes are available in presentation mode, web page mode or as plain text.
As I mentioned in “Fixing Problems” I have an annoying problem on my W2K server. When the SBS Health Monitor reports run a popup message says,”There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\harddisk\Dr1″. I found a reference to this problem on WinXP and it stated the problem was related to the zip drive. Since updating the zip software didn't fix the problem I tried the recommendation in the KB. I put a diskette in the zip drive. Today I did not get the message. The problem is not solved but at least the symptoms are not annoying me.
One of the silly things that gets said repeatedly is that I should not be against affirmative action because I have myself benefitted from it.
Think about it: I am 73 years old. There was no affirmative action when I went to college – or to graduate school, for that matter. There wasn't even a Civil Rights Act of 1964 when I began my academic career in 1962.
Moreover, there is nothing that I have accomplished in my education or my career that wasn't accomplished by other blacks before me — and long before affirmative action. Getting a degree from Harvard? The first black man graduated from Harvard in 1870.
The most dramatic rise of blacks out of poverty occurred before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. That's right – before. But politicians, activists and the intelligentsia have spread so much propaganda that many Americans, black and white, are unaware of the facts.
There is a lot of political mileage to be gotten by convincing blacks that they owe everything to the government and could not make it in this world otherwise. Dependency plus paranoia equals votes. But blacks made it in this world before the government paid them any attention.
Nor has the economic rise of blacks been speeded up by civil rights legislation. More blacks rose into professional ranks in the five years preceding passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the five years after its passage.
What moved blacks up was a rapid increase in education. There was certainly discrimination but, in many fields that demanded higher levels of education, there were not that many blacks to discriminate against in the first place.
Thomas Sowell
Jewish World Review
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.”
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
“Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.”
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
“We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Senators, Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
“Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
“There is no doubt that … Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of an illicit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.”
Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, Dec, 5, 2001
“We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.”
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
“The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons…”
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force– if necessary– to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.”
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
“There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years … We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction.”
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
“He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do”
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
“We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.”
Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime.. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation … And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction… So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real …”
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23, 2003
Today I tried to fix a variety of minor problems. Some fixes worked. Some fixes didn't work.
The book is well written and probably very effective on many people who are “plan your work, work your plan” people. Don't get me wrong I like the book and the importance he put on the five purposes of life:
What I do know about myself is that I feel I have been most successful as an oblique learner. At an early age I realized that I frequently cannot get to my more difficult goals from the most direct route. When I got stuck with a difficult problem in school, I realized a successful strategy for me was to back off. I would work on something else or work in a different direction realizing that in the end I would have to work even harder to make up for lost time. I remember in college I was working on a programming problem for several hours and seemed to be getting no where. So I called it a night and headed back to the dorm. As I crossed the drill field I started to reschedule my next day's activities to allow time to work on this problem again when I realized the solution to my problem. Naturally I turned around and went back to finish the problem. My gut tells me that the growth in my faith has occured primarily in activities I did not consider as on my direct route to Christ. God's plan has frequently not been my plan. It sure helps to be flexible if you are not perfect.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” [Quotes of the Day]
List-o-matic Dreamweaver Extension. We told you so. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
I coded my stuff by hand but I am not against a little automation. The one from the website is pretty good so I decided to try the Dreamweaver extension.
I continued to work on the temporary/miscellaneous installation file problem. I started to examine my disk with a utility I have used in the past, i-disk. Its okay but it could be nicer. So I went looking to see if there was a newer version. I had some problems finding it but I finally found it listed on a website called WebAttack.com. In their review of i-disk they were ambivalent about it so I decided to see what they really liked. They had a page where they reviewed a slew of file utilities like i-disk and they seemed to like a utility called foldersizes. Foldersizes is a visually more appealing product with a couple more bells and whistles. Its got a nice XPish motif and some nice reports. I downloaded it from their website, www.foldersizes.com. It worked fine until it ran into a folder left over from an aborted trial of Undelete called Recovery Bin. It never finished scanning that directory. Something was screwed up in the folder and the data should have been deleted months ago, so I deleted the folder. Since I had a “disk” problem, I decided to check the disk with Norton Disk Doctor. NDD found a couple of errors with the indexes and told me to schedule a chkdsk at bootup to fix the errors. I think my disk drive is lean and clean. My file search works much faster now!
