This (alleged) homeless guy from Greensboro has a blog. Seems to be a pretty decent writer. I wonder when the RIAA will sue him for downloading music? (via)

Ted has another post about the UAE ports deal (which in turn references another post). I've been reasonably quiet to this point because I don't have much to say. This pretty well sums it up.

In a nutshell: The people running the port at the highest and lowest levels aren't likely to change in any significant capacity, so who cares who gets the profit from the deal? The security is going to be bad regardless of whether it is run by the UAE, the British or the US, so who cares? Spend the time and money on fixing the problems, not making problems where none exist.

After a couple of furious days of planning and scrambling to get everyone somewhat organized, we've made the move, and the move was to Mailstreet. To be frank, the start was rocky. But in the end, we are very happy with our choice of Mailstreet as a hosted Exchange provider. Well, we aren't quite done, but the end is rapidly approaching.

Tonight the dose of Zonegran goes up by another pill, to 200mg. This is one-half of the (expected) full dose.

A reader of Scott Adams' blog has written in to express her concern over the willy-nilly way in which Mr. Adams portrayed the listless, drunken, bib-wearing hillbilly in a recent cartoon. Get a life, people. It's a comic strip, and if you don't like it, look away.

Due to developments, I'm looking for some Exchange hosting providers. I tried 123together.com. Bad choice. Really, really bad choice. Not only is their service sub-par, the support absolutely stinks. The chat sessions go something like a conversation between dementia patients in a nursing home:

      Hi - I'd like to close my account.
      Uh, you're happy with your service?
      No, I want to get rid of it.
      Hold on a moment please.

Some time later, we start again. On three separate occasions, I was told to contact their support department via email. To this point, I have not received a single response. Nice. Luckily, their competence extends to their billing system, where I entered an American Express card number that I was sent in the mail the other day. Frankly, I was surprised that the Your Business Name Here account worked. But I won't complain.

Marty wants to know how I feel about the draft. Well, Marty, unfortunately, I don't know. Or perhaps that is fortunately, because the draft has not been active in my lifetime, at least not to that point where I was able to talk. So I don't really have an opinion on the matter. But I'm sure I can come up with one.

After the folks at the American Community Survey demonstrated their persistence by not only coming back over and over again, but actually changing the address on the form so that it reflected the correct one (it did say "drive", where it should be "avenue"), I finally broke down and gave in. I really didn't want to do so.

Sharing the wealth. Popular phrase. It's all the rage. Of course, these days it means that those who have somewhat more than others, relatively speaking, are going to be required to give up some of that so that the others can get some.

Walter Williams talks about the concept, where he points out that someone who holds to the liberties as envisioned by the framers of our society will be soundly defeated if they try and stick to such a concept.

Guess he's right.

As an aside, the local paper printed this Williams column in today's paper, while his site shows it was published on the 5th. Talk about being behind.

One of my favorite veggies (or fruits, perhaps - I'll leave that argument for you) is the zucchini. Of course, it's probably because I usually fry it. But I still really like those zukes. This simple recipe is not only easy to make, it's messy fun and it doesn't require much in the way of fancy preparation.

Starting tonight, I will take 100mg of Zonegran. This amount will gradually increase to a full dosage (400mg), and eventually will replace my Dilantin dose (currently 500mg). Stay tuned.