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This article in The Onion was printed January 2001. This was pre-9/11, and yet strangely prophetic. And funny in that “doesn’t it suck to be right” kind of way. My opinion? Terrorism sucks, but it’s not clear this has anything to do with Saddam or Iraq. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: the misdirection and sleight-of-hand that Bush has used to associate Iraq with terrorism is impressive. Not because it shows how clever he (or his aides) actually are, but more because it shows that a large number of Americans are cattle. ...

Powell Offers Proof of Saddam-Osama Link, February 7, 2003 By Gil Christner UNITED NATIONS - Secretary of State Colin Powell today offered incontrovertible proof of the long-sought-after link between Saddam Hussein’s Regime and the al Qaeda Terrorist Network. In a speech before the General Assembly, General Powell was able to show, through a series of “degrees of separation,” how Hussein was merely 6 people away from Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda. Using charts, graphs, and all AV equipment available to the U.N., Powell presented his case to the General Assembly and the entire world, which was watching via television cameras. Never rambling or tentative, a confident Sec. Powell spoke with a voice of authority, outlining the solid connection between the leader of Iraq and the group of terrorists deemed “the most dangerous people to Humanity” by Fox News Network. The series of charts and graphs were presented in 14 different languages, including Farsi, Aramaic and German. French was inexplicably left out of the languages used. ...

OK, I went and bought a book on this subject which contains dozens of possible transcriptions for common names. I feel it’s already earned its value. Here is one possible way to write Guu-Rei-Gu in Japanese: 遇礼仇 - one who treats his enemies with courtesy Would anyone else like me to look up their names? :)

Hello again loyal readers, sorry this is a little late. Not sure what I did Friday. I seem to remember leaving work more or less on time, like 5:30. I probably had dinner at some point. Oh, that’s right, L came over again and we worked on the first of the user migrations (me!) Saturday, we went up to Healdsburg to see M’s grandma and parents. A good time was had by all! It was M’s birthday and her mom gave her a huge blanket that she knitted, must have taken a long time. We got back kinda late but not too bad. ...

Last week I put in a request to have the IP address changed for one of my domain name servers. The change I requested has not been done yet. Instead, someone at register.com made a mistake and deleted ALL the NS entries for nekodojo.org. This made my domain inactive for approximately 36 hours this weekend. I need you to do the following. 1. Make the IP change to the domain name server record (host record) as follows. Host ID: H53361427-LROR Host Name: NS1.NEKODOJO.ORG Sponsoring Registrar: Register.com (R71-LROR) (old) IP Address: 209.157.144.25 (new) IP Address: 64.139.47.218 ...

Wow, this is almost becoming a regular feature. I bailed from work pretty much on time Friday, came home, and I think I stopped by the Russian deli for piroshki (though that might have been Thursday). M and I had piroshki, mine with a side order of leftover Tom Kha Gai soup. D called after we had finished eating and asked (of course) if we were considering dinner - we informed him that dinner was no longer a concern, but that we were open to any proposals for dessert. Met D and C later for dessert at Max’s. ...

Well it looks like register.com fumbled my request in a bad way. So if you need to reach me, please try my alternate email “gconnor@nekodojo.COM” or gconnor@av.com. Went something like this. Q: (12:13 am) Hello, I have moved one of my DNS servers. Can you please change the IP for ns1.nekodojo.org to 64.139.47.218? Thanks. A: (12:56 am) You’ve requested to modify DNS for your domain name. Please respond to this email … In the ‘Notes’ section, please outline the changes you’d like made to your account and state that you confirm those changes. ...

Oh is it time for another weekend report? OK. Left work just about on time Friday, and met with Laura here at the house. Laura is going to be doing some work for me on the Nekodojo family of servers, because I kinda would like someone else to do the sysadmin stuff around the dojo for a while, and she gets some internship points out of it. Together we will work on migrating the servers to the new DSL, migrating charon services to neko-base, and other cool projects, time permitting. Excellent! ...

Secret entry In case any of you decide to be envious, yes, I have someone, but no, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m getting any. Still haven’t gotten any since, well, let’s just say well before my last post on the subject. :( Maybe once M gets off her meds we can work on it more. Hmm.

Well the neighbor had some people over and they were all looking at papers around the kitchen table. And he took his “for sale by owner” sign down. So hopefully that means he will be selling and getting the hell out of here. Usually I can’t tell what is going on inside his place but he had the shades open, which makes me think he was showing off the excellent view to the people inside. ...