The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an amusing interview with Berke Breathed, of Bloom County / Outland / Opus fame.
I love Bloom County, as I’ve commented before. Re-reading and collecting those 80s comic books reminds me not only of my childhood, but how topical Mr. Breathed’s cartooning is and was. So much of what he talked about then still applies to today.
He has a 25th anniverary book coming out of his favorite Sunday comics he wrote.
Interesting… Jinzora, an open source music web management system, has announced they are working on version 2.0, that will offer an option of their normal PHP scripting, or a MySQL option.
A MySQL option is very intriguing, as I may be able to replace Netjuke, which has had one update to CVS in the 4 months as they work (or not work) on Netjuke 2.0.
I’ll have to keep an eye on this, and maybe even test out the current 1.1 version of Jinzora.
I made it to about 12:30 last night, and then started to nod off. Was awake on and off until 2 am when I finally crawled into bed.
Turned on CNN this morning. Was happy to see Wisconsin went for Kerry and Feingold, but to say I’m disappointed in the end result nationally, is an understatement.
I’m shocked at the margin of winning, and how many Senate races went Republican. Shocked.
And I’m not talking about conservatism.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s lead story at this hour is about election concerns in Minnesota.
Higher than expected turnout, and that’s saying something as Minnesota led the nation 4 years ago at 69%, reports of voter intimidation, Moveon.org staffing their tables, and running out of new voter registration cards are just some of the things covered in the article.
And the mouthpiece of the Republican party, Norm Coleman, mouthing off about concerns of fraud.
As expected, way too close to call. Indiana, Kentucky and Georgia to Bush, NH to Kerry.
Ohio just closed – too close to call.
Winning Senate races all over the place – Colorado & Kentucky are pickups, lose Georgia. Way too early to really tell on all of those already.
Go vote! Take a friend out and have them vote! Ask your friends if they’ve voted!
One report here locally from a friend is he arrived at the polls at 7:05. And there was already a huge line of 100-150 people waiting to vote.
Go vote!
Spent the weekend on and off attacking my to-do list.
Got the den cleaned up, a bit. Most everything off the floor.
Spent a good chunk of the weekend trying to stop the lockups on my Ubuntu desktop. It’s definitely a Nvidia bug. Started with X freezing, but the mouse pointer works. Found the bug on nvnews.net, but no solution. Asked for help on the Ubuntu forums, but no luck there. Asked for help on the TCLUG, but can’t even get to my mail now with the frequent lock ups.
I’ve installed and un-installed the Nvidia packages from Ubuntu, messed with my XFree86-4 configuration file, including making sure the modules are right, and even trying with and without the DRI module as some posts indicate. It definitely has something to do with the GL functions – the screensavers and GLXgears lock it up instantly.
The next two things to try are swapping 4200 cards, and maybe trying to build the Nvidia drivers from source (ugh).
I did get Vino working on the laptop – that’s pretty cool as I can just use the remote desktop functionality to read my email on my box from my laptop in the living room over the wireless connection. I’ll need to play with the screen resolutions a bit, as my desktop has 1600×1200 and my laptop is 1024×768, which makes it a bit hard to read at times.
All of this makes the case for getting my Athlon64 up and running – it might be my solution to dedicate that box as my primary linux box.
I disconnected my Linksys router I use as an access point. For some reason, unlike my D-Link A/G router, the Linksys won’t serve as a passthrough to my server, so any device connected to the Linksys won’t have internet access. I attempted to hook up a second D-Link, a vanilla 802.11g, but couldn’t get it to work like my A/G. It’s a pain in the ass to do it too, as I have to dedicate one machine to it, turn DHCP and all that fun stuff off, but I’ve learned I’ll have to have a second box hooked up to the A/G so I can figure out what settings I’m missing to get it to work.
To top it all off, I’m in the living room watching football, and my UPS freaks out. It’s probably my own fault as I don’t drain it periodically like I should, but it starts beeping and won’t stop. I’ll have to re-evaluate my power needs for my den. It’s just more to add to my to-do list. One step forward and two steps backwards.
Babies don’t care about daylight savings time. Even when you keep them up late, they just want to get up the same time they always do.
Of course, it might not be a baby thing, and maybe be a kid thing, as Alex was up at 6:30. That might have been just the noise from Zoe though.
I’ve been meaning to write this for the last day or two, but I went out lunch Thursday to a Vietnamese restaraunt, and had Pho for the first time. Pho has been on my list of things to try since I joined the respective mailing list.
A Vietnamese soup, quite popular in the US as well, Pho is one of the few Vietnamese dishes not served family style.
Typically made with beef, it’s a soup served in a large bowl with rice noodles, beef, and a number of assorted spices. This particular restaraunt had it’s choice from beef, meatballs, tripe, beef strips, rare steak, and a few others I can’t remember. On the recommendation of the waitress I had the beef and meatballs. It was excellent – can’t wait to fnd another restaraunt to try it out.
I wasn’t there, but my family was well represented with my father and sister in Madison today as John Kerry was joined by Bruce Springsteen and 100,000 strong.
We are 5 days away and every vote counts. Pick up the phone, ask a friend to vote, it doesn’t matter for whom, but get folks to the polls. Here in Minnesota, same day voter registration is in effect, so get out the vote!
More photo’s & news from today’s event in Madison here.
