The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for September 2005
Here is how to set up an SSHD service on your Windows XP Cygwin machine. This comes from a great guide from Pigtail.net on how to turn an old PC into a Linux Router… aptly named the Linux Router Project (LRP)
Local version of how to install SSHD. And how to install SSH
And yes, this works.
In my attempt at hubris, I’ve added a link to Top100Bloggers.com in my sidebar. If you read my site and like it, vote for me. It’ll make me feel like one of those big-time bloggers.
The thing to click on should look something like this
Click because you love me
Wavexpress has upped my hours. There’s a big release coming up and they want it to go well. So my life of leisure will be severely curtailed as I work full time instead of just a couple hours a day.
(from my last post ;-) I don’t know if this makes me into the slaving proletariat or the despised bourgeois.
…is a very simple WordPress-plugin to remove rel=’nofollow’ (as proposed by Google) from links in comments in WP’s output.
This plugin checks the date of any comment and removes rel=’nofollow’ if the comment is older than a configurable number of days. This gives the site admin a chance to remove comment spam whithout the risk of Google following the links.
This will hopefully make hyperlinks in comments and on my site more relevant to search engines. It offers encouragement to legitimate commenters to post legitimate links on the site.
update 10-29-05: Nonofollow wasn’t working correctly all the time and I didn’t bother to figure out why so I’ve switched to a different nofollow plugin, DoFollow. I’ve tried it out and it works very well. Note that it is a filter plugin… it doesn’t alter the database like NoNoFollow (I believe) attempts to do. This is probably a good thing from a forward compatibility standpoint.
“Come in Moonbat Alpha. Are you there Moonbat Alpha?”
“We read you loud and clear.”
The Maoist International Movement
Strap yourself in before you read any of the movie reviews. Prepare for your indoctrination now.
Some excerpts:
Men in Black – 1997
…The Men in Black consider themselves “above the system,” and indeed they are in this movie fantasy of the aspiring intergalactic bourgeoisie which long ago went beyond petty national conflicts like that seen at the Mexican border. The Men in Black want their rule to appear “neutral” and beneficial to humyn-kind, as if it were possible for a state to be class-neutral…
The Matrix – 1999
A Hollywood film of tremendous value — a great gift to the revolutionary movement on par with that of Reds politically and done artistically as well as can be with special effects. Humyn-beings both dead and alive are tended by machines in gigantic mechanical farms where they are used as batteries for the various kinds of heat and electricity that they produce. Not only does the script-writer uphold materialism as the existence of an external world independent of the subject (humyn mind), but also the script-writer shows us how science will conquer and make everything knowable including dreams. There are a few drawbacks to this film, but on the whole, MIM could not have asked for more in a two and a half hour Hollywood movie. We can use the movie to educate people about dialectics, modes of production, Lenin’s book “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism” and the drawbacks of anarchism and individualism.
Yes, you read that right. The machines are the good guys. That’s kind of a different take than you had originally thought, isn’t it?
Dearest Lazyweb, I saw… just last week… a friend or blogging aquaintance that has started a CD duplication service specializing in small runs. I can’t recall where I saw it? Do you?
Or if you just know of a good place to get 150 CDs duplicated with pretty sleeves, leave me a comment.
Now, when you do a search and pause for a second, the search bar will drop down some suggestions of what you might be looking for… things that are in my blog. This is derivative of Google’s (eerie but cool) Suggest site. This plugin comes from David Linsin. WP-Plugins.org
Phoey. I can’t get a free discount on my car insurance in California. That said, taking this driving class saved me a lot of money in New Jersey in 2002-2005. Some car insurance companies honor programs like this, some don’t. Read on.
I took an online driving safety course, sent the certificate of completion to my car insurance company and now my car insurance went down by $150 a year for 3 years! That’s $450 free money!
Here’s what to do:
– Call your car insurance company and ask what kind of discount they’ll give if you take an online drivers safety course that’s sponsored by the National Safety Council. My insurance, GE gave me $150 each year for 3 years. Some companies don’t offer any discount… Sorry.
– Take the course at http://www.nscddconline.com/ It’s also offered at
http://www.tutorials.com/catalog/catalog_item_n.asp?pid=2037 but they charge a bit more.
– Send your insurance company the certificate of completion that you’ll receive a week later.
The course costs $42… IE it instantly pays for itself. The course is mind-numbingly easy. It asks questions like: You come to a Stop sign on a busy street and an old lady is crossing, do you:
A) Stop, look and listen
B) Accelerate to clear the intersection quickly
C) Swerve and continue down the road
D) Turn on your hazard lights.
The course took about 3 hours for me to complete. It should take you less given this bit of advice: there is no final test and just about everything they try to teach you is about common sense.. They won’t ask you any nit-picky questions like “How many feet do you have to park away from a fire hydrant? 5, 15, or 20. (No, I don’t remember either)
I took the test in August 2002 and I’ve saved about $300 in insurance since.
Yes, this is legit, go to www.nsc.org. Click on “Driving” then click on “DDC-PC Online” and read up on it.
If it works out for you, I’d love to hear back.
(Pointed out to me by TJIC)
Very interesting ideas.
Affordable Family Formation
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