http://www.zen.org The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:21:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Robins have been around for a few weeks. Last weekend I saw some bees flying around, but got sad when I found a dead carpenter bee in my garden. Hopefully he just stayed out a little to long in the cold. Last night I clinched Springs arrival, ... http://www.zen.org/2008/04/10/spring-critters/ A friend of mine is set up with a satellite Internet connection to his home in a not-all-that-rural part of Ireland. He's been hosting his domain from there, with all email traffic and such going to his local server. Until recently, it was a perfectly workable solution, even ... http://www.zen.org/2008/03/29/using-postfix-to-block-spam-botnet-traffic/ For the longest time I've been sticking with having to only ever visit www.ros.ie using W1ndow$ on my laptop. Being self-employed, every two months I have to give some tax to The Man. This time, I decided to look again to see if anyone has discovered a way to do ... http://www.zen.org/2008/03/26/paying-irish-vat-using-a-linux-system/ A Barack Obama supporter rang my door bell a few days ago, wanted me to change my party from Green to Democratic to vote April 22. I have until March 24to change my party if I wish to vote Democratic then. I didn't change. Over a month ... http://www.zen.org/2008/03/13/pennsylvanian-delegates/ We recently moved zen.org to a different server, and in the process my dump and reload of our MySQL database worked---mostly. However any posts with UTF-8 Unicode characters didn't get displayed correctly. After spending too much time trying to figure out how to make mysql and mysqldump help me, I ... http://www.zen.org/2008/03/11/fixing-our-true-unicodeness/ Last night, 2008-02-27, Linus Gustave Heinicke was extracted from my wife's belly. Though a cæsarean section was scheduled for leap day, when 余艾蕾 went in for a preop the Doctors choose to make the fetus a baby then. He was just under 7 pounds. Height seemed to ... http://www.zen.org/2008/02/28/not-linus-van-pelt/ sven@bwf-03:~$ cat get.txt Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can ... http://www.zen.org/2008/02/26/refreshing-your-dyslexia/ Being 71 Chuck Norris thinks McCain might be too old. It turns out Mr. McCain's mother, a sprite 95, is still alive! She also seems to be quite the jet setter. http://www.zen.org/2008/01/25/john-mccains-mom-alive/ Is it me or does Mr. Huckabee have a similar stare to George W. Bush a dairy cow? http://www.zen.org/2008/01/05/michael-huckabee/ Up at 5am with an awake 1 year-old, you find ways to keep yourself amused. Watching the NASN cable channel in Ireland, they had a college football game between Cincinnati (the victor) and Southern Miss (the defeated). But it all went wrong when the announcer said, "...here on ... http://www.zen.org/2007/12/24/it-started-with-candlestick/