According to the latest Federal Reserve figures. Woah.
Banks are now actually asking for credit card debt forgiveness from the government. And I was wondering why suddenly those damned “blank checks” from credit card companies were no longer filling up the mailbox.
Is the age of living beyond one’s means finally coming to and end?
We’ve been wondering what to do with our mother’s old fur coats. They hang in the back of the coat closet closet; a poignant reminder of things lost, and left to lose.
Considered giving the furs away to the local Glad Rags, however donating “thrift furs” didn’t really seem to make a lot of sense. Looking around for alternatives I came across Coats for Cubs, a campaign run by the US Humane Society.
Coats for Cubs repurposes furs into “blankets” for orphaned animals. According to the C4C site, “The furry blanket becomes a surrogate mother to orphaned animals, reducing stress and giving comfort.” Over 200 rehabilitators in the US and Canada participate in the program.
See the Coats for Cubs web site for to learn more about the program and how to donate.
Layla’s first trip to Salem.
I have no idea how she got up there.
Spooky.
What is this?
This is what you get for taking my advice running svnserve manually. Probably an upgrade has updated the svn binaries, though an older version of svnserve is still running. Either restart svnserve yourself, or figure out how to get the fancy shmancy init scripts to work.
Note that you may be seeing this on a remote client machine, though really it’s the server that’s the problem.
Just seen in the wild on an old-ish Fedora distro.
This works:
extension_dir = /usr/.../php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
extension = apc.so
extension = wbxml.so
Quick check shows good…
$ php -m
[PHP Modules]
apc
ctype
…
wbxml
xdebug
xml
But this does not:
extension = /usr/.../php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/apc.so
extension = /usr/.../php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/wbxml.so
And yet Zend modules seem to always require a complete path; eg:
zend_extension = /usr/.../php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so
If you ever find yourself unable to get your BlackBerry to connect to wifi, try the following:
Settings -> Options -> Advanced Options -> Host Routing Table
In the “HRT Editor”, click the BlackBerry button and select “Register Now”. You should get a “Registration message sent!” message and see some network activity. Click “OK” and try to access the Internet again.
If you’re lucky, you now get to say “Voilla!” This seems to work about 80% of the time.
I think this is how BlackBerry locks down their devices so that folks are required to purchase data plans from a carrier. No SIM card, no data plan, no wifi.
Would that this were rather more seamless.
If you find yourself upgrading a wicked old Fedora distro, you may run across an error like this:
Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available.
Try upgrading your kernel. To upgrade your kernel, make sure that only the latest version is hanging around. Because of a bug in legacy versions of yum, any older versions of the kernel must be removed.
To check your installed kernels, run:
$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
Note that if you simply run “rpm -q kernel”, you may miss smp kernels or other. The above will give you a complete picture. Remove all except the very latest version, then run yum update.
On October 11, 2002 Congress approved the “Iraq War Resolution” granting the Bush administration authorization to invade Iraq. It was to be a quick war, we were told.
Six years later, 1 in 3 Iraqis have been killed, wounded, or displaced. Over 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed with tens of thousands more seriously wounded.
The three trillion dollar Iraq War, burning through $10 billion dollars per month, has been funded with deficit dollars — money we do not have.
How much longer will we borrow to wage a war founded on lies; when our ailing economy threatens jobs, education, healthcare, and disaster relief?
On Saturday, October 11th, 2008, Bostonians will gather in Boston Common to make a stand.
For more information, see the official rally website and the program for a list of performers and speakers.
Update: This drew a much larger crowd than I anticipated; where I expected to see hundreds, there were thousands. Still much smaller than it needs to be, but encouraging.
Crowds will certainly grow as the economy worsens.
Before you finish groaning, here’s the rumored cast:
Col. John “Hannibal” Smith — Bruce Willis
Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock — Woody Harrelson
Sgt. Bosco “B.A.” Baracus — Ice Cube
At least according to IMDb.
Due out June 12.
I love it when a cheesy Hollywood summer blockbuster remake comes together.
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