Nasty vegetables

Nothing brings a happy moment to sudden stop quite like bitting into rotten food. In this case it was a carrot. Yuck.

9/11

It's been 4 years. Wars are still going on, terror acts are still going on. We'll see what happens in the next 4 years.

More space on the network

One of the ideas that I had by putting my linux box on the network was to provide hard drive space for media like pictures and music. I have not turned it on in like 6 months. :-( Ideally I would just put on something like the Linksys NSLU2, but if I put my external drive on it the thing would never power down. I'd rather have something that powers down when it's not being accessed. So I have been looking at things like a Buffalo LinkStation but they are pretty pricey. I'll keep my eye out for something good though.

Music on the cheap

One of my co-workers pointed out allofmp3.com which is a site where you can cheaply get music in any format that you want. Very cheaply. Like less than 2 USD for an album. And rare stuff too that is very hard to find. I'm pretty excited about it 'cause I found a band that I love called Space where I have found it really hard to get the music.

Even though it's a Russian site and all that usually brings to mind, it (from what I was told) has won court cases that say they are able offer this service and everything is legal. I don't think that I'll give them my credit card though, I'll probably use PayPal when I do download stuff.

Yay cheap music. ;-)

Bodies...

Has anyone else noticed that for all the reporters asking people who have been to New Orleans they always get to a certain part of the interview where it goes like this:

"So, have you know, uhh, seen any bodies? Lots of them? Floating around? Gross eh? Did you, you know, poke them with a stick? Gross eh?
Now on to Bob for the weather..."

Okay, we get it. Lots of people died. There are bodies around, lots of them. We get it Media, we really do. You're starting to disgust me, not with thinking about bodies, but with you.

Ah crap...

We just moved from having Rogers to another ISP. I was afraid that I would loose the Yahoo! Photos and all the photos we have there. Well, we half lost it. My favourite thing about it was that I was able to upload the full sized photos and be able to download the same later. It was a great off site storage / backup for all the shots that I didn't want to loose. But with just a straight Yahoo! account I can no longer download them again. Crappy.

I have to figure out another good place to keep my photos for long term storage. *sigh*

Scary...

After checking out a slashdot story I was really startled by what I read in that guys blog: "Crime is absolutely rampant: rapes, murders, rape-murder combinations." The looting was on the news.

The thing is I just don't get it, not at all. Are people really that messed up that a flood is all they need to revert to the lowest possible behaviour? I don't remember things like that when tsunami hit aisa. I don't remember any stories like that when the ice storm hit eastern ontario / western QC...

Is is just the Americans? Are they just freaking crazy? One person being interviewed on the news was saying how he didn't think that him looting was wrong, because if it was wrong the cops would be out shooting people for it. WTF???!!! Someone has to shoot you for you to figure out that something you are doing was wrong? Well, I guess people only make mistakes once then eh?

I am sure that there are "reasons" for how things have played out but it just blows my mind. I really hope that it's a few giving the whole situation a bad rap and there are tons of stories of selfless acts of kindness.

It's just that those don't make the news.