Same-sex weddings start with union of elderly San Francisco couple (SFGate) - the slideshow is so worth it.
Questions and quotes for the Christian protestors follow… (it should be noted that I am a Christian also, but I do not agree that same-sex weddings are bad, nor do I agree that good people go to hell for following other religious/non-religious practices that are not necessarily Christian)
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The movers are still here, moving our stuff in, but the DSL and VOIP are up and running.
I’ve got the AC on full blast and the front door is wide open.
I have to make with a wireless connection to my attic (for the video game consoles) and also make good on my plan to make a public Wireless Access Point happen.
But the infrastructure is already there.
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This is a great read (from crayonbeam), which she didn’t comment much about, but which I see as a treasury of examples of privilege and entitlement, examined and unexamined, and it’s in the framework of gender, so it may be easier to take in than the scary jungles of race-related issues.
Har.
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Actually, it’s just time for our local intertubes to “go dark”.
I have been speaking portentiously all morning. I think it’s another stress symptom.
Anyhow, since the movers come tomorrow, I’m going to pack up all the associated Internet-connecting and Internet-connected devices today. The long-neglected “land line”, which is actually VOIP, so not really a “hard line” anymore anyway, will probably get enabled sometime tomorrow, or possibly later.
If you have our cell numbers, you can reach us there, and our intertubes in the new house should also get enabled sometime tomorrow.
My various gaming consoles may take a little longer to get attached. I’ll have to run cable or buy wireless equipment to get those bastards hooked up again.
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So my sweetie’s Powerbook G4 is having some performance and operation problems, and I just thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about what the symptoms appear to be and what what our action plan is to get it back into operation.
Updated to make certain decision-points a little clearer.
Updated 2 with alterations suggested by ckd, some wording corrections and some price estimates.
Tags: apple · drive-by · forensics · geek · hard drive issues · hdd · powerbook · troubleshooting3 Comments
As an archivist in this effort, I’m still taking the trouble. Otherwise, I think I would have quit by now. Anyhow, I’m posting new as well as updating the metapost.
Also, because I am linking to troller or almost-troller posts, let me remind the unwary reader/commenter about my policy on trolling on this journal (from the About page):
Generally I just ignore trollers, but on this journal it’s trivial to delete comments, and if you do troll me, it had better have some value. Be amusing or insightful or whatever. If you can’t be amusing or insightful and you troll me, your comment’s going in the trash. Consider this your fair warning.
This post is for convenience of people still coming to the scene and wanting to know what happened, and because at the tail end of discussion, I just got a trackback from the Body Impolitic blog.
I’ll add more here if any more appears on my radar (as well probably in an additional post).
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I didn’t know this before, and it could conceivably help if you happen to be trying to track down a troller by incoming domain name or e-mail address and you find inaccurate WHOIS information.
There is a way of dealing with false WHOIS information. You can report it to the InterNIC and they will process it and try to rectify it.
You start with this form (the Whois Data Problem Report) and follow the directions there.
The form does require your real name and a functioning e-mail address, so it will leave a paper trail that could conceivably implicate you should someone track it back, but it’s a good tool to know about.
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