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Insignificant Microbe

OK. I went ahead and added myself to the Blogosphere Ecosystem on The Truth Laid Bear. I don’t expect ever to evolve beyond the “Insignificant Microbe” category as I never have and probably never will really promote this site, I just do it for my own gratification. I’m pretty much the only one who ever looks at it. But hey, might as well get on some lists for a few more occational random hits. :-)

The pMachine software I’m using for this also automatically notifies weblogs.com whenever I make an update. And I’ve noticed that apperantly a few other automated blog trackers apperantly take their cues from weblogs.com to decide when to scan things. Which is cool I guess. At least more robotic spiders will see my site!

Oh, and to make sure I get on both the link list and the traffic list at the Ecosystem, I added the silly sitemeter thing too. You can click on the traffic meter at the very bottom of this page and see all by stats. At least for the parts of my site I’ve added the new footer to so far. Right now it validates that I am the only one looking at this. Which is OK. :-)

Hmmm. After setting up the webcam and then adding the counter and registering myself for the ecosystem. I think it is time to call it a day. Or night. Or whatever.

Trouble Brewing

The strains are apperantly building up in Kurdistan.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aPBWwTSw.6GE&refer=uk

Turkey warned the U.S. that its troops will fire back at U.S. soldiers if another attempt is made to arrest Turkish soldiers in Iraq, Milliyet daily reported, without saying how it obtained the information.

(via Unqualified Offerings)

Heart Tossing

Eww! This is a little bizzare. Although at the same time quite cool. This kid had to have a heart transplant. But after it was over, they let him PLAY WITH HIS OLD HEART!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030711/168/4nldj.html

(via Dave Barry)

Late to the Blogosphere

I’m late. I knew I was slow starting to do this. Should have done it a long time ago. But at least I beat the BIG crowd!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46143-2003Jul11.html

The “blogosphere” may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.

(via Google News)

AbulCam

Oh yeah, the AbulCam is back! I have it set so I can easily swap it between Ares (the server for abulsme.com) and Zeus (my Powerbook). It is updating the website with pictures every minute when it is hooked to Zeus, more often (for now) when it is hooked to Ares (since it is a local file save instead of an ftp). Woo! Of course, this means I have to start making sure I’m decent when the camera is on again. Oh well. I should be able to do that. :-)

http://www.abulsme.com/abulcam.html

(I did eliminate the “Eating” section of the site since I’ve been doing really badly at going through those 100 restaurants closest to my place, plus I’m moving in a month anyway.)

Oh, and if anybody else has iChatAV and a video camera, Video Chat me at “Abulsme” on iChatAV. I want to try that. :-)

iSight

Of course I got it. Was there ever any doubt? Have the box in front of me right now. I probably won’t have anybody to video chat with on iChatAV, but I’ll try to set up the AbulCam again. It has been more than a year I think since the AbulCam was last in operation. I just couldn’t keep the old 6100 up as a webcam server any more. But now, this here should work. :-)

Houses and Cameras

In just a couple seconds I’m leaving to go meet Brandy (my agent) to sign some more papers and turn in some more financial documentation as part of me buying a house. Less than a month until closing. Gulp!

Of course, once I’m at her office, I realized I’ll be close to an Apple Store. Well, maybe not right next door, but not too far away. And I am getting a hankering for that iSight. Now, I’m buying a house right now. And I’m going to have to get stuff for the house. And I’m doing the next random trip shortly. I really should not be spending money. But it isn’t THAT much, right? Right? Pooh. We’ll see if I am able to resist or not. I really should wait a few months. We’ll see.

Both Wrong?

Charles Krauthammer goes off on Democrats for supporting intervention in Liberia but having issues with Iraq and comes to the conclusion that maybe Democrats only support military intervention in places where there are no US strategic interests. Whatever. Maybe in some cases. Dunno. But perhaps they are BOTH wrong? We really should only be sending in the military when there is an extreme need and our national interests are in danger. This was not the case in Iraq, and it is not the case in Liberia either. There was no need for us to go into Iraq (although now we have no choice but to make the best of it). There is no need for us to go into Liberia. The main argument at this point to go into Liberia would be to help heal the wounds with the rest of the world incurred by the Iraq adventure. That might be something worth considering this for.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40916-2003Jul10.html

(via MaxSpeak)

Rubber Duck, Come in Rubber Duck, Put the Hammer Down

This is a really fun unintentional experiment. I’d like to see graphs and charts though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3060579.stm

A consignment of thousands of rubber ducks is expected to wash up any day on the coast of New England – after more than a decade at sea.

Duh!

This whole concept is a shameful travisty of anything even resembling justice or due process. The defendants can’t see all the evidence against them. There is no client-lawyer confideniality. (Not to mention they haven’t been able to see lawyers at all most of the time.) Hopefully there will be enough public pressure on this that either these eventually get transfered to a civilian court (unlikely) or the military keeps “adjusting” the rules as they already have a little to make these a little closer to what one would expect in a fair process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/politics/13TRIB.html?hp

But as the Pentagon prepares for the first such proceedings in more than 50 years, it is encountering a potent criticism: many lawyers and bar groups say the conditions for civilian defense lawyers are so restrictive that they might not agree to participate in the process and thereby lend it legitimacy.