Right Here, Right Now 3.0

With the resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor, I'd like to come out the closet as one who opposes judicial activism. For example, my feeling is that if you want women to have the right to an abortion you should elect representatives who will support that right. Not take the lazy way and rely on the courts to help you out. If you are opposed to the death penalty, then work for elected officials who believe the same way.

I'd rather have the court less involved in settling 'day to day' issues. For every Brown Vs. Board of Education, a decision which many would laud, there is a Dred Scott, a decision hopefully universally vilified. (By those who even know it exists.)

Imagine what this country would be like if we had an engaged electorate who understood the value of participation in political activities.

Shelby Foote was surprised that Bush stood by Rumsfeld after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke: "'Lincoln went through six leaders of the Army before he got to Grant, whom he trusted enough to leave alone. All the others always had to look back over their shoulders. And Lincoln had to. They had wrong strategies and wrong notions of war.'"

Wonkette:
"8:02: First mention of 9/11. Drink.
8:04: Second mention of 9/11. We're going to be soooo drunk.
8:05: 'Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed.'
Unlike most Americans, I could have prevented it."

Ok, back to work.

A colleague threw a party last weekend. Molly, Lilah and I attended, along with a few hundred of his neighbors and other work-mates

The value, for our purpose, is recent pictures of Lilah and Molly.

So, every web site can have logs kept of every access. One of the things the logs can tell you is the Referer. That is, what link did the user click on to get to your page.

Someone, out in the great internet cosmos entered this search at MSN: copulate

Among the top five or so results was a link to this entry on my very own blog.

We're full service at Right Here, Right Now.

Giveaways - gnomedex - JotSpot: "David Geller and WhatCounts will be giving away an Apple Mac Mini and several iPod shuffles for no apparent reason other than they're all really cool and he achieves some degree of satisfaction buying them and helping convert people to Apple products one at a time. And this from someone that was a Windows developer since the Windows 386 and 2.0 days. Also, the Mac Mini is the only computer that will fit comfortably into the front pouch on the company Segway."

I don't know what it means, but it's cool to me that someone thinks they're saving the world by giving away Macs.

My current and previous car have a feature that puts up a warning light on your dash when the next maintenance is due. At first the light just flashes at startup as the maintenance mileage approaches. As you get nearer to the designated mileage the light stays on.

Since we are trained to respond when a dash light comes on, I always get my car serviced so that they'll reset the thing and my tension level can ratchet down a notch.

I had the oil changed yesterday, the 10,000 mile service, and they forgot to reset the warning! I was torn between taking time out to go back to the dealership and driving with the light on for another 10,000 miles. I decided to go back, but I called to make sure I'd be in and out quickly.

The fellow at the dealership told me how to reset the light! I feel like I'm in on a trade secret - I'm an insider now! Whee. So, I was able to reset the light and saved the trip.

Life's little pleasures.

Update: I'm told the directions to do this are in the manual.... (I should probably read the manual.) :-)

ABC News: "'When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there,' Jones said on ABC's 'This Week.'"

Wow. This is apparently one of the guys who drove the Freedom Fries French bashing in Congress.

Yea, the team is really working hard.... I'd be jealous, but I'm too old to share a hotel room with anyone other than family. I will rue the day I have to make a company trip.