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GRAFFITI -- March 17, 2008 thru March 23, 2008 >> Link to the Current Week << Last Week << Mon   Tues   Wed   Thu   Fri   Sat   Sun >> Next Week Search this site : Welcome to Orb Graffiti, a place for me to write daily about life and computers. Contrary to popular belief, the two are not interchangeable.     About eMail - I publish email sometimes. If you send me an email and you want privacy or anonymity, please say so clearly at the beginning of your message.

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March 17, 2008

2044 - Good evening. Craig Zacker is the "author" of Network+ Certification, a textbook I'm using for my current course at UMUC. He notes about Linux: "Originally developed as a school project by a Swedish student named Linus Torvalds,...." Sigh. That's one of the lesser flaws in this book. But to get such an easily confirmed piece of information wrong — one has to wonder how much else he fubar'd that I haven't caught. Chores, chores, and schoolwork. Ciao!

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March 18, 2008

2200 - Good evening. Rest in Peace, Arthur Clarke. As one article noted, he was the last of the "Big Three" in Science Fiction, Asimov and Heinlein having been called to Valhalla about 20 years or so ago. Between the three of them, and Frank Herbert, they did much to cement my pleasure in reading, and in speculating about the future of Humanity in the Universe. It's been said that mostly Science Fiction is a very positive-thinking sort of field, as we (as a race) have to have survived long enough to get there. Given that the Golden Age stretched from the Great Depression through the worst parts of the Cold War, one could excuse the desire to find a better path. I perhaps favored Asimov for his characters, Heinlein for his exuberance, and Clarke for his precision and wonder. Herbert made me think. Well, they all made me think, and read, and think some more. Good habits to have.

Anyway, time to retire. Or at least, to sleep. Ciao!

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March 19, 2008

1733 - Good evening. Spring starts tomorrow. Good thing, because it's raining buckets here, with thunder and lightning expected later. More in a bit...

0939 - Howdy. Nothing really new. I had a good laugh this evening - it's just so funny watching pompous little twits melt down. Yeah, sometimes that's me, too. But not this time. I've been promised that I'm in a killfile now. One can but hope. On the school front, it's "Spring Break" - our weeks run Wednesday through the following Tuesday. So there's no reading or assignments this week, but plenty to do to keep the Study Group projects rolling. Now, to relax for a bit...

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March 20, 2008

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March 21, 2008

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March 22, 2008

1847 - Hmmm. No reason, really, I've just been busy. The dining room is fully sanded and respackled where needed. School group project work has eaten the evenings of late. The weekly shopping is done, since key stores are closed tomorrow. The taxes are done. (And we got bit by AMT this year. Bastards.) Work is work, and Spring is sprung, around here. Chilly, breezy, but definitely spring. Nothing else really to report. Oh, yeah. No Peeps, ever. Ciao!

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March 23, 2008

1445 - Good afternoon. I could have, perhaps should have, gone and done some work in the yard today. But I didn't. I did get the humidifier cleaned and re-filtered, put in a couple of new floor vent covers to replace crappy old rusting ones, and reorganized several boxes worth of paperwork. I'm about to get ambitious and clean up my desk some. But time keeps flying by, so I wanted to stop in and take care of business...

Five soldiers were reported this week to have sacrificed their lives in our service. These men, and all our service men and women around the world do us honor as they perform their duty, in hard and dangerous places. My condolences to the families and units of the fallen.ffffff

• Cpl. William D. O’Brien, 19, of Rice, Texas, died March 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when he was attacked by small arms fire during combat operations.
• Spc. Lerando J. Brown, 27, of Gulfport, Miss., died March 15 in Balad, Iraq, from injuries suffered in an incident currently under investigation.
• Staff Sgt. Michael D. Elledge, 41, of Brownsburg, Ind., died Mar. 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device during combat operations.
• Spc. Christopher C. Simpson, 23, of Hampton, Va., died Mar. 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device during combat operations.
• Sgt. Gregory D. Unruh, 28, of Dickinson, Texas, died March 19 in Mandali, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident.

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