Posts from — January 2005

A shell script to check on Apache: “I thought this may be useful to anyone here who is running a web server. I use it on my linux boxes, and with my Apache crash last night, I am now implementing it on my Mac OS X machine.

Filename: checkapache

#!/bin/sh

…”

(Via macosxhints.)

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this could be handy in some places

globegazette.com – Archived News Search: “On Nov. 22, it officially dropped. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates released that day, 2005 will be the first year in nearly 50 that America will not turn an agricultural trade surplus.

The dubious milestone was met with odd silence at USDA. Odd because throughout the fall presidential campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman talked herself hoarse each time some farm community in a swing state dedicated a new USDA-sponsored street light.

Now, as America is about to become a net food importer for the first time in generations, Veneman has no explanation of how Bush Administration economic and trade policies have taken American agriculture from a $13.6 billion trade surplus in 2001 to a flat line in four short years.
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(Via .)

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it will get worse, if it ever gets better.

How slowly we forget: “

Remember when red (as in communist) meant left and blue (as in blood) meant right?

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(Via The Doc Searls Weblog.)

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up means down, left means right, sounds like 1984 perfected doesn’t it?

Yahoo! News – Senator Says Lifetime Terror Detentions ‘Bad Idea’: “A reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them in courts was swiftly condemned on Sunday as a ‘bad idea’ by a leading Republican senator.”

(Via .)

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especially if ideological labels are used….. which they eventually will be….

she really is, here she talks about canada

so this year, i resolve to:

begin a writing practice, write 750 words a day, everyday

get fit

eat better

only drink one bottle/glass of beer a day, if that

save money to go on a long trip

and that is about it.