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Boulder Colorado did it.  So can we…

Boulder Bike Story from Bikes Belong on Vimeo.

Best Line in it: "Problem is, Civilians dragged us into this war. Once you've been to war, you never want to go back. It's like France"

As some of you may know, I got a windows desktop a while back.  This is just a test from windows live writer to see if I can get a decent blog writer so that I can annoy everyone from my windows desktop.

Our long national nightmare is finally over, and I have a webserver, and a blog back

Next on the list is webmail, and the photo gallery...

I've moved mail (sending and receiving) over to the new fancy colo'ed server. Right now, if you're impatient and have to get mail now, you'll have to repoint your mail client to calcata.folkwolf.net As usual, support is, leave a comment or send me a message somehow, and I'll try and help you through it if you need help.

If mail works well over the next day or so, everything will be moving over there, and I'll point all of the dns over there, and you won't have to do anything.

From David Scrimshaw's post A guide to Blue Skies Music Festival

Although Blue Skies is an amazing cooperative event completely created by volunteers and dedicated to the creative arts, the environment and peaceful coexistence, the race for good camping spots is a savage competition that requires speed, strength and guile

I've been wanting to upgrade the folkwolf, this humble server that I've had for over 10 years now. As some of you may know, and our motd attests to, reliability ain't been a hallmark.

This has been for a few reasons.

1. It's sitting on a home DSL connection.
2. It's on an ancient 500MHz machine, with 512 MB of RAM. Fercrissake the iphone has a faster CPU than the folkwolf does...
3. I think the disk is starting to go.

So last week, after a friend of mine on the well made up this chart, I bit the bullet and signed up for Rackspace Cloud". Rackspace Cloud is a nifty service that will let you run a Virtual Server in their datacenter. For 1.5c / hr, It'll cost me ~ $11/mo to run the folkwolf, which, really, is about the same as I pay for it having it sit under my desk. As pros for this, a better, more reliable connection, free snapshot backups, and an upgraded OS (CentOS 5, rather than the woefully out of date version of Fedora that's currently there)

Two fascinating talks by people that you may not think are that fascinating. Make sure you have about 35 minutes. It'll fly by

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Adam Savage comes across on "Mythbusters" as "the goofy one" you get occasional flashes of what makes him interesting, but nothing quite as interesting as listening to him talk about what he's interested in.

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Mike Rowe is the narrator of "The deadliest catch", and the host of "Dirty Jobs". In both shows he displays so much respect for the subjects of the shows. This gives you an idea why. Also, why "follow your passion" is the worst career and life advice

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This quote captures so many things in one paragraph, the stupidity of organized religion, the monolithic perception of Islam in the western media, etc. All I can say is: Allahu Akbar.

John Green:

Those who feel the guidance of God as revealed through the Quran are protesting for freedom and political representation. And the people savagely beating those protesters also feel the guidance of God as revealed through the Quran.