24 Dec 2003
It's Here

This could actually be good news for us. Our cows are safe - we don't feed them ground up downer sheep, as is the common practice in large feedlots! But it'll be bad for the beef industry as a whole, no doubt. We'll have to see how this shakes out...

First Suspected U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease Under Investigation. The first-ever U.S. case of mad cow disease is suspected in a single cow in Washington state, but the American food supply is safe, the agriculture secretary said. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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More Wally World Madness

To quote Walt Kelly's Pogo - "We have met the enemy and they is us!"

How many folks are aware that Wal-Mart Corp. alone is responsible for nearly 10% of the US trade deficit?

Wal-Mart rollout - or rollback?. The Inglewood community is resisting the retail giant's expansion in California. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

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Public Potties

The Green Man has a funny little bit on Toilet Pseudo-exhibitionism. I remember seeing a bit on TV about an establishment (an ice cream parlour, if I recall correctly) that had a similar installation with one way mirrors... pretty weird. Don't think I could do it.

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Get in the Wayback Machine

Whoa! My first was a COSMAC ELF - built it from scratch, with 256 bytes of RAM. There's a guy in the referenced article actually had one too! Bizarre!

First Computers [Slashdot]

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Moving News

Whew! I completed a major redesign of haxton.org today - in preparation to mving the blog over there. Figured I'd take the opportunity to get rid of some of the darkness hanging around - lightened the backgrounds, redid the menus, added all my stories from here to there.

I also made it back thru November putting titles on these posts to make indexing in Blosxom easier. What a royal pain! The only time Radio uses titles is in the RSS feed - otherwise they're ignored. Blosxom depends on titles to build it's indices - hence the problem.

The export tool by Andy Fragen is quite useful - not perfect, but very, very appreciated!

I also managed to get AmphetaDesk running on the Big Mac as a daemon (of sorts). Hacked a little Perl - I'm no Perl God, but I am getting fairly proficient at hacking on Perl sources. Now I gotta do a bit of hacking to get a "post" button for the blasted thing operating, and a bit more to get an automatic "upstreaming" function for my new setup.

Lot's to do, but it's gonna be fun.

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