The latest posts on Hussy: Adrienne Barbeau and Jennifer Anniston

The latest sets of celebrity woman racy pics on Hussy (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy) are for Adrienne Barbeau and Jennifer Anniston (also here).

Britney Spears "triplets"

How about Britney Spears as triplets? Who needs the Olson twins?

Lindsay Lohan is still "out there"

SiteMeter blames server problems on increased Lindsay Lohan traffic! Lindsay is still "out there" being photographed and generating gossip news.

Why Cecilia Bolocco is a hot topic

The apparent explanation for why Cecilia Bolocco is a "hot topic" is this topless pic. She is obviously very nice and is not afraid to show off what she has. This see-through dress leaves little to the imagination.

So, is alt.binaries.erotica.amateur.female any good?

The answer to the question about alt.binaries.erotica.amateur.female is that yes, the group has some interesting pics. There could have been 337,836 posts of bad spam, but this mostly was worth having. There is also a good bit of interesting video. A video of a good-looking Pakistani woman being sodomized seems improbable, but it is probably the case. Because it is High Definition, it taxed my machine.

Amateur and girlfriend news groups

There is a lot of junk, but if you have a taste for amateur pics, the amateur (in all its various misspellings) and girlfriend news groups are a good source of material. When browsing for groups, I started to type in "amat" and found plenty of candidates. For example, alt.binaries.erotica.amateur.female had 427,984 messages when I checked. That seems to indicate a group worth reviewing.

"The Usenet" (news groups) is constantly evolving, but over time, I found that between interesting spam and actual posts, I could find decent "racy pics" in these places. I have been using NewsRover since January 2002 for reading binary news groups. I had been using Netscape and Outlook Express, and finally gave up on them. I wanted a reader that would handle multi-part files and all the various encoding schemes. NewsRover does that quite nicely. The one thing NewsRover lacks is SSH/SSL support. GigaNews provides SSL encryption, so I could use it if NewsRover would support it. There is a cludge way to get SSL, by using an external tool, but I don't want to deal with the hassle.

Fixing Firefox 2.0 downloads

On my main desktop machine, Firefox 2.0 was behaving badly on downloading image files. Firefox would hang every time I tried to download a large image file. I found the answer, which was to clear the download history. The problem when away after I did that.

Here is a page of Tasha, who I have seen over the last 7 or 8 years

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"RetroRaunch"

I had forgotten that "RetroRaunch" used to spam binary news groups that I read. They apparently still exist, as I found this pic in Google Image Search.

Fortunately, the Southern Baptists have not shut down the Internet

The Southern Baptists took at major shot at "shutting down the Internet", but fortunately, they didn't succeed. For a time, they created a business for people selling access to adult sites, but that must have evaporated (I hope). Now, there is "all kinds of stuff" "out there". An example is peepshows.com. Here is a pic I ran into on my "Tasha quest".

In my quest to find Tasha...

I have been browsing Google Image search, looking for the Canadian Tasha. I stumbled onto this Tash pic (not the Tasha I am looking for, but acceptable).

"SoloCuties.com"?

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The current spam

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We need to see a bit more skin before we get too excited about Danika Patrick

Yes, Danika Patrick is nice. Before I get too excited, I would want to see more of her than we have to date.

Sexy Emma Watson pic

This a sexy Emma Watson pic from the Locksley's Realm blog. He also has Bonnie Wright pics.

Another news group

Another news group that has material that you might like is alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.mature-women. Despite the name, it has the better sort of spam, in that SexyThirties.com is posting mpg files of various sizes, anywhere from about 1.8MG to about 10MB.

The latest set of celebrity racy pics on Hussy is of Helen Mirren

I just checked Hussy (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy), again, the latest set of racy pics is of Helen Mirren. This pic is from "Savage Messiah".

A $30 to $40 an hour Java programmer in Los Angeles?

I just saw a Monster posting for a Java programmer in Los Angeles at a $30 to $40 an hour rate in Los Angeles! To work at that sort of rate in that location, you would need to be willing to live on the street or in a tent in a park. Even in the Dallas area, someone would be insulted by an offer like that, at least in 2007 (maybe in 2003, people would have jumped at the chance to take it).

News Groups

One thing that I have found, in the 8-1/2 years that I have been reading binary news groups, is that groups will "die off", at least for a while. They may or may not come back to life, eventually. New news groups are constantly being started, as well. Some groups may devolve to being totally spam. Right now, the usual sort of spam is generally uninteresting. There have been times, although not for several years, when the Spam was worth viewing. Right now, spammers such as "Savage Babes" bore me. Hussy (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy) has used to have questionable material, and then died out. It had gone to spam for a while. Perhaps the current celebrity pics posting are spam, but they are worth a look. I am currently collecting what they post. "Horny Rob" has died out (again) in the last month or so. Very recently, it was extremely interesting, but it is hardly even getting spammed. Of course, the news provider affects the issue. GigaNews is trying to kill spam groups, so I added ThunderNews, to see if I could get what GigaNews wouldn't let me see. It has worked, so that I am seeing some postings in Thundernews for several groups that don't have any in GigaNews. What GigaNews has is long retention. They retain more than ThunderNews, and have SSL, as well, if you have an SSL-compatible news reader. ThunderNews really is "uncensored". GigaNews claims to be uncensored, but is doing censorship, anyway.

The latest post on Hussy is a Rosanna Arquette set

I just checked, and the lastest post on Hussy (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy) is a set of Rosanna Arquette pics with indexes. Here is a pic of her, topless.

GM "gets it", at least

General Motors seems to have understood what is required to compete. The new Chevrolet Malibu is a good-looking car.

More "Dancing at the Blue Iguana" with Kirstin Bauer

In another pic from "Dancing at the Blue Iguana", we have a terrific-looking Kirstin Bauer.

Daryl Hannah "Dancing at the Blue Iguana"

Here is a pic of Daryl Hannah from a movie "Dancing at the Blue Iguana".

An oldie but a goodie of Daryl Hannah

This is not new, but this picture of Daryl Hannah is still "good".

You like Sarah Jessica Parker?

Do you like Sarah Jessica Parker? There is at least one good pic of her.

So, why is Galilea Montijo a top Technorati search item?

I have to admit that I am ignorant enough not to understand Galilea Montijo's top rating in Technorati. I am guessing it is a bit like Tammy NYP, but I could be wrong (easily). Still, Galilea is "all right".

Do you like Heather Graham? I do.

The Phat Phree has some bad text and a good pic of Heather Graham. The text is bad because it works abysmally in Firefox.

I had this problem with Windows Explorer in Windows XP Professional

I have Windows XP Professional on my laptop and primary desktop computers. The desktop has been horribly slow for downloading files and for viewing folder contents. The problem was a system setting: I needed to turn off the transition effects for menus and ToolTips. This tip told what to do and it "worked like a champ" (I am big on cliched phrases).

The ALShow player

Have you ever heard of the ALShow player? I had not, but I have had trouble with Windows Media Player not being able to find the CODEC needed to play some odd file. ALShow seems to do a much better job of finding CODECs. It just worked for me for a problem AVI file.

Bill Whittle has a classic essay: "You are not alone"

Thanks to Jay Tea, at Wizbang!, I got to read Bill Whittle's new essay, which is a classic: "You are not alone". He says:

Cheating in class (or getting a diploma without passing the required tests), cheating by crossing the border illegally, cheating by committing crimes and not paying for it, cheating by bribery and corruption, cheating in general rewards Screw the Other Guy as a social strategy and makes chumps of the people who need a level of societal trust – they need retaliation against Screw the Other Guy – in order to continue to cooperate. Society needs to retaliate against cheaters because not to do so flips the coin from cooperation to betrayal. And that’s the end of everything we have worked for and cherish.

And – and – you don’t need to be a master of game theory to know this in your bones. Because if you are offended by cheaters, it is because you are being betrayed into – you are in fact forced into – becoming a cheater and betrayer yourself. Aways-cooperating dies quickly: if you never betray and the other guy always does, he goes free and you get 20 years every time. (In other words, he’s out getting high while you work to support him.) Sooner or later, even the most dense moralist gets the message.

When a tipping point is reached – when enough people are allowed to cheat – the system swings to a different stabiltiy mode (the default mode) and Screw the Other Guy becomes the only rational choice.

The rational choice. Think about that for a moment.

Does that make you angry? It damn well better. And if it does then you are not alone.

the Phat Phree has a Christina Ricci pic

I realized that I should check the Phat Phree, to see if there was a Christina Ricci pic there. There was. This is it.

The other new Hussy set is of Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci is "all right". She was the subject of one of the two latest posts on the Hussy newsgroup. Here is a pic of her. This is one of the pics included in what is in Hussy.

One of the latest Hussy posts is a set of Keeley Hazell pics

On Hussy (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy) is a set of Keeley Hazell pics with indexes. This is a pic of her, although not from the news group.

"Intentually"?

I had never seen anyone use "intentually", before. I went ahead and checked to verify that "intentually" is not a valid English word. Apparently, this is shorthand for the correct word, "intentionally". "Intentually" seems to be a malapropism for "intentionally", but could eventually become a word, if enough people keep misusing it in place of the correct word.

The worst president of all time

There is one man who wins the contest as the worst U.S. president of all time. He is a former president who is still living and doing and saying bad things. I was shocked at how badly he did as president, being a former nuclear power program officer. They are usually really sharp, but he is such a political radical, way out of the mainstream, that colors everything he does and says. He single-handedly converted me from center-left to center-right. The key event was the botched Iranian hostage rescue. By the time Jimmy Carter left office, I wanted nothing more to do with liberalism, of his brand. I still voted against Reagan. The only option for me was John Anderson, a liberal Republican who ran as an independent candidate in 1980. At the time of the failed Iranian hostage rescue attempt, I was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. I have told the story before of how I took my son to early morning swim practice in my uniform (navy shirt and trousers and black tie). The retired navy captain who cleaned the pool for the team told me about the failed attempt. For whatever reason, I was devastated. I had seen the minesweeping helicopters loaded on board C5A's at the Norfolk Naval Air Station, heading for the Middle East. These were the helicopters used in the raid. This page tells the whole sad story. And Jimmy Carter has the gall to call George W. Bush the "worst president ever". Bush may be bad, but Carter was orders of magnitude worse. All you have to do to verify that is look at the record: ridiculous inflation; helping the Ayatollah Khomeini return to Iran; the botched rescue attempt, after cutting military spending and mismanagement; a bunch of really unqualified buddies put into government; a consistent "hate America" view; I could go on, but won't. I guess you can tell how I feel about former President Carter. He is the guy who moved me to the right, politically. Where was Curt Le May ("let's bomb them back to the stoneage") when we needed him? (He was dead, and there was no left with the guts to do the job)

Halle Berry fakes

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Henry Payne on Jennifer Granholm

Henry Payne has a pretty unflattering cartoon of Jennifer Granholm, today: "If we don't raise taxes, the Tigers will lose". Notice Jennifer's moles ("The Moled Wonder").

Mandy Moore?

Nihilist in Gold Pants writes about the movie "Because I said so" (he didn't like it). He does have a pic of Mandy Moore, though (hint: he thinks that she is OK). By the way, there are Mandy Moore fakes "out there" (on this page).

Horny Rob's world is an odd place

One thing about the Horny Rob news group is that the women are often top of the line. I would not include the nice lady Xiola in that category, but she is at least "OK". She has her own paysite, at this point. The really top of the line women are "Tiny Tove" and Anuschka Marek (now getting up there in age). "Horny Rob" now has "Heidi", supposed to be the daughter of "Tiny Tove".

Firefox 2.0.03 works much better for downloads

I have been using the latest version of Firefox 1.5.x on this machine, and I have been really unhappy with downloads. I just switched to Firefox 2.0.0.3 (which I have been using on my laptop) and downloads are much faster. I had not expected that, but I am thrilled, as it was very badly behaved. It was slow to download and hung the browser while doing the download.

"Suspect" my foot: he was the killer

Several miles from where I was in Mesquite, Texas, this morning, there were several robberies and a killing (in the first). They all were in places that I have been in the past, and in a neighborhood that I visit frequently. A "bad guy" robbed a donut shop and then, seemingly for fun, killed the woman who ran it, and then went down the road to a What-a-Burger and robbed it. He didn't shoot anyone else, right then. He eventually hopped on I-30 and headed west for Dallas. He bailed off and tried to do more damage. He finally was trapped and started shooting at Dallas police officers, who killed him. In the process, and officer was wounded. The nearby grocery stores no longer stay open 24 hours, the way they used to do, because it was inviting guys like this to rob them. They are just too conveniently located near the highway. The Dallas Morning News and KRLD radio have more details.

Jerry Falwell

Jerry Falwell was the favorite target of the left, especially the GLBT left. In reality, Jerry Falwell was much more complex man, who was more sympathetic, when you actually knew something about him. I had seen him at business events in the latter 1990's. At the time, he was morbidly obese, and it was obvious that he needed to lose a great deal of weight. I would guess that he never did, and that is why he died at the relatively young age of 73. You get a sense of the real man when you see the king things that odd people like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Larry Flynt had to say about him. Our lefty buddies really hate to read this sort of thing, as they start frothing at the mouth.

The latest post at Hussy has Jessica Alba pics

I just checked and the latest post at alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hussy is a set of Jessica Alba pics with indexes.

My second day of using the Sprint Mobile Broadband USB Modem

I am into my second day of using the Sprint Mobile Broadband USB Modem (a Novatel Wireless Ovation U720). I am liking the experience a great deal. Admittedly, the speed is much less than if I was connected to WiFi or my fixed wireless setup at home, but it still provides a much better experience than using a "locked down" Dell box, running Win 2000. By "locked down", I mean that I don't have administrative priveleges, and there are all sorts of restrictions imposed on the box. The machine is remotely administrated, and updates or new software are often pushed at inconvenient moments. Not only that, bu the NEC MultiSync LCB1560V+ has a smaller viewable area than my laptop. My laptop is running Windows XP Professional, and I have administrative privileges (obviously). Even though my laptop only has 512MB of memory, the experience is still better than the locked down machine with 1GB. Part of the issue is the firewall that the Win 2000 box sits behind. The Sprint Mobile Broadband gives me a conduit outside of the firewall, and that makes a huge difference. I use McAfee Total Protection for Small Business for firewall and anti-virus, so I am still protected. Perhaps from my disjointed writing, you can tell how fried and into my ADD mode that I am today. The fried part is due, at least in part, due to delayed jetlag from my trip last week to the Netherlands, which is seven hours later than Dallas.

I sat at my desk, trying to install the Sprint Broadband USB device, and ran into a problem (UPDATE: It works!)

I had hoped that I could easily install the Sprint Novatel U720 USB DORA on my laptop, a Winbook with Windows XP Professional. I quickly ran into an issue, and received an error message: "(Error 678): The remote computer did not respond". Perhaps I am not within the Sprint data network. I thought that I might be there, as I can use my phone without a problem. After talking with my team leader, I came back to my desk. He suggested that there just might have been a low signal strength. I tried again and he was right: I was connected, off, and running. This gets me around being stuck behind a firewall.

Oddly enough, Object Space founder Graham Glass likes Ron Paul

I have known Graham Glass for about 15 years. He is one of the founders of the late, great company Object Space, which florished for a time and then died out. Graham moved onto other things, and made his fortune there. I guess he has libertarian tendencies, because he likes maverick Ron Paul, who I voted for in 1988, when he ran as a Libertarian. After that, the Libertarian Party went oddly weird and ran off into the weeds. In any case, Graham has written a series of blog posts about Ron Paul. Graham's take on Ron Paul is that:

I hope that the media pays more attention to Ron, who actually understands and defends the mechanisms of liberty instead of tearing them to pieces.

I am glad that I am not counting on making money from manmade global warming

Clayton Cramer has a blog post about "Neptune and Global Warming". This strongly suggests that our current warming is due to increased output from the Sun:

One of those nasty global warming skeptics is pointing to an article about changing brightness of Neptune:

Incredibly, an article has appeared in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters showing a stunning relationship between the solar output, Neptune’s brightness, and heaven forbid, the temperature of the Earth. With its obvious implications to the greenhouse debate, we are certain you have never heard of the work and never will outside World Climate Report.

So the porn tape is supposed to be Monique Fuentes, not Galilea Montijo

Yes, Monique Fuentes is all right (to say the least). Monique Fuentes is said to be the one in the sex tape, instead of Galilea Monitjo. At least one other pic that was said to be Galilea Montijo is actually someone else (Veronica Mayra). While we continue to hope to see more Galilea Montijo skin, it may be a bit harder to find that we would like.

Wireless broadband

I have also taken the plunge and got a wireless broadband device for my laptop. This is not a card but a USB2 device, as I wanted to have the option of using WiFi, as well. I found that WiFi, from Eurospot and at the airport, while I was in Amsterdam, was very convenient. I am a Sprint customer, so that is what I bought, today. The unlimited rate per month is about $50.

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

We have finally taken the plunge and are starting to install compact fluorescent bulbs. What appealed to me was the much lower heat generated. I am finding that they generate more light than the low-wattage bulbs I had been using. Naturally, there is a Wikipedia page about them.

Weight Watchers Update: I hit my goal weight today

I started following Weight Watchers back on the last Saturday of February 2006. Today, down 59 lbs, I hit my goal weight. I actually want to lose about five more pounds. The amazing thing is that I traveled to the Netherlands, leaving last Saturday afternoon and returning on Thursday afternoon. Since I weighed in two weeks ago, I had lost another 2.8 lbs. I attribute the weight loss to having walked a great deal while I was in Amsterdam. I went shopping on Wednesday afternoon for gifts, and I was out walking for about two hours.

Maybe this deal won't be so bad for Paris Hilton

Professional celebrity Paris Hilton has run into a spot of trouble. The LA Times suggests that perhaps she won't have to serve her entire sentence. I suspect that the whole deal is simply some publicity hound official trying to make a splash. He also must not like Paris Hilton's "style".

Global warming is better than the alternative (from Der Spiegel)

Der Spiegel has an article that says that global warming would be a good think, while global cooling is bad. This is based on our last experience with this sort of climate changes in the last 2,000 years.

I cannot do anything that needs Google.com from Amsterdam

A nasty feature of Google, from my perspective, is that Google checks your IP address, and gives you access only to certain things that are based on your country. I am not able to check my Google Adsense earnings, because that involves my accessing Google.com (apparently). Google is so politically correct, that they censor what they allow people from various regions to see (such as from the People's Republic of China, for example). I think that keeping me from seeing my Google Adsense account from Amsterdam is pretty extreme.

A nasty feature of Google

When I try to use Google Image Search from Amsterdam, I am stuck with the Netherlands version, which seems to be censored, oddly enough. I would not have expected that to happen in wide-open, liberal-minded Amsterdam or the Netherlands, generally. I was looking for racy Cate Blanchett pics, partly because she has some problem, right now, where she looks anorexic! I am not sure what the deal is, if her heroin addiction has gotten out of hand, or what the explanation. In any case, combined with an extremely bad hair style and being skin and bones, she looks extremely bad. I had the idea that she has looked much better than now.

Very tall people

One striking feature of being in the Netherlands is the number of very tall men and women. I understand that the Dutch have the greatest average height of any country, followed by Norway. I grew up in a city with a large Dutch population, and our next door neighbor had a Dutch last name and was in the neighborhood of seven feet tall. His daughter, who was my age, was several inches taller than I was. I am not surprised about Norwegians, either, after my three years working in Minneapolis. There were many tall men and women. The women would often be blonde or red-headed. They would be either raving beauties, or would look like they could play defensive tackle for the Vikings, if they firmed up a bit.

Amsterdam and the Netherlands are nice

I have to say that I struggled a bit at first, but now am a lot more at least, being in the Netherlands on a business trip. The country is radically different from the US in many ways. What they have is a great commuter train system, trolleys, and busses. In Amsterday, the population density is extremely high, but you can walk easily. You need to ask, probably, about how to use the train and trolleys, but they are easy enough. I made a flying trip to The Hague, today, and figured it out well enough. I did use a taxi to get to the Amsterdam Central Station to and from the hotel. We stayed on the south side of town.

So what do you think?

Being newly arrived in the Netherlands, my initial impression is that it is an expensive place to be. On the other hand, I have found some really friendly, helpful people. I know where there is an ATM close to the hotel in Amsterdam, and I am writing this, because I found an Internet cafe that was reasonably priced. I was also able to solve my phone problem by getting a pre-paid T-Mobile sim card with a Netherlands phone number. The down side is that I have not figured out how to get around on my own, yet.

Traveling

I will be traveling between Saturday and Thursday, so that will disrupt blogging, flying out and returning. While in the Netherlands, I hope to do some blogging, from Sunday evening, other evenings and the early morning.

Yadhira Carrillo is not too shabby, either

Yes, Yadhira Carrillo is also a hot lady. You can see more here.

Galilea Montijo continues to be hot (as if she could be any other way)

Galilea Montijo seems to be still a hot search topic on the Internet. Yes, she is a hot lady. She gets around a lot. You can see her in YouTube.

So, George Tenet and "Ron Jeremy" played soccer together in High School?

Tmz.com says that former CIA director George Tenet and the porn star "Ron Jeremy" (real name Ronnie Hyatt) played soccer together in High School. (Thanks to Steve Silver)

Yes, the Dallas Mavericks folded

In a shameful display, last night, the Dallas Mavericks completed their collapse by losing by 25 points to Golden State. The main factor was that Dirk Nowitski could sink a shot. He ended up with just 8 points. Some "MVP", huh? I was wrong about the Mavericks. I expected them to be swept in four games, but they actually won two.

Ségolène Royal?

Neoneocon has this pic of Ségolène Royal. "Neo" says of her: "she trades very heavily on her charm—and a host of other traditional female characteristics, as well".

I wouldn't mind seeing more of Ana Martin-Villalba

I have seen just enough of Ana Martin-Villalba to make me want to see more. This is about all that seems to be "out there".

Does this Monica Bellucci pic work?

What I wondered was if this Monica Bellucci pic worked for you?

You say you like Monica Belluci?

Did you say that you like Monica Bellucci? There are some pics of her "out there", such as this one.

An amazing thing

What amazes me that memorizing eight characters that are a combination of upper and lower case letters as well as numbers is actually quite easy. In less than a day, I can reprogram myself to memorize a new password constructed in this way! Is suspect that the eight characters is a factor, as the size must be critical and then the mind has amazing capabilities to recognize obscure patterns.

So, the young Wendy Richard was nice

You can tell that Wendy Richard would have been pretty nice, when she was young. She might not be too bad, still, even now that she has aged. Besides being an Eastender, she was on "Are you being served?", as Miss Shirley Brahams.

Digg: the biggest threat to the Internet is lawsuits or other legal action

I can sympathize with the Digg owners on the HD-DVD encryption issue. "Big Media" is being very aggressive with legal action on everything to do with music and video. They are hanging on to their current business model and fighting any attempt to bust it. This sort of thing has the power to shut down Digg, so they have to be careful. At this point, the encryption string has saturated the Internet, so to some extent, Digg is insulated. Business Week has a "Tech Beat" article on the subject. The DMCA is one of the most evil things to come out of Washington in a long time (since "the War on Drugs").

I'm still looking for more Akiane pics

I keep looking to see if there are more Akiane pics out there. If you don't know about her yet... Her's is such a radically fringe story that she is eminently suitable for living in Idaho.

Graham Glass likes Mike Gravel!

What do you know. Graham Glass likes both Mike Gravell! Graham is a transplanted Englishman, so we shouldn't be surprised if he leans to the left.

Global Warming is getting bad

Too many Martians drive large pickups and SUV's (particularly H2's), and it is rapidly accelerating Global Warming on Mars. Clayton Cramer has the story:

From the London Times: Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.

Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

We just got nailed by a storm

The weather in the Dallas area is cooler than normal and we are having more severe storms. We are on the trailing edge of one wave that just went through. The winds were blowing into my neighbor's yard and they were strong enough to break off TWO fence posts at the ground. There are at least two panels down and one or more very rickety. UPDATE: They say that we got hit by 85 mph straight-line winds. That is what took down our fence.

Nortel is doing well

Probably no one but me has noticed, but the attempt to knock Nortel stock down, has failed in a big way, because there was good news. The good news contradicted the downgrade from Goldman Sachs. TheStreet.com has the story. Yahoo Finance has an AP story as well.

One of our favorite Canadian honeys, Belinda Stronach

So you like Belinda Stronach. She is a bit exotic, but she is still one of our favorite Canadian honeys.

The Weather Channel crashes the "locked down" IE6

This seems crazy, but in our tightly "locked down" environment, the Weather Channel website is constantly crashing IE6 (the only allowable browser). It happens multiple times a day. This is such a tight environment that we are not allowed to use the Google or Yahoo toolbars.

Steve Silver says that Alycia Lane was after Rich Eisen

TV personality Alycia Lane (KYW Philadelphia) was apparently going after Rich Eisen, TV sports guy. The only problem was that Rich's wife saw the racy emails. The Post Chronicle has the story. By the way, there is apparently a concerted effort to remove all Suzy Schuster pics from search engines. I was frankly amazed that for a prominent woman, she is totally absent from imagery (seemingly). That is true with Google, Yahoo, and Clusty.

Paul Graham has "The Hacker's Guide to Investors" for startups

Paul Graham now is involved fulltime with helping "startups" start. He now is somewhat involved in venture capital and has written a guide to the field for startups: "The Hacker's Guide to Investors":

So you shouldn't start a startup that's expensive to start, because then you'll be at the mercy of investors. If you ultimately want to do something that will cost a lot, start by doing a cheaper subset of it, and expand your ambitions when and if you raise more money.

Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible.

David Horsey on the nervousness in DC

David Horsey has a cartoon in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the nervousness in DC over the "escort service" scandal. It is vintage David Horsey.

The "United Kingdom" dissolved?

DavidB, writing at Gene Expression, talks about the possible breakup of the United Kingdom, after 300 years:

If the English find themselves governed by Scots and Welsh, whom they subsidise, but over whom they do not have reciprocal power, the sleeping dog of English nationalism may finally wake up. The West Lothian Question would be raised with a vengeance. But the outcome would probably not be independence but just some arrangement within the UK Parliament for purely English matters to be reserved for English MPs to decide.Second, what about Wales and Northern Ireland? At present the Welsh seem much less enthusiastic for independence than the Scots. Support for Plaid Cymru is weak outside the Welsh-speaking areas. So I would bet against Welsh secession from the Union in the foreseeable future. Northern Ireland is a very different matter. I suspect that there will be some form of united Ireland within the next 15 years, regardless of what happens in Scotland. The flourishing economy in the Republic is one factor, but recent political realignments are equally important. The most startling political sight of the last year was that of the Reverend Ian Paisley laughing and joking with the Taoiseach in Dublin. The reality is that the progressive elements in Irish society and politics detest Sinn Fein almost as much as the Unionists do. So I would expect to see some kind of revised Irish Constitution - secularised and with safeguards for the North - that the majority of the Northern Irish can sign up to. And if both Scotland and Northern Ireland have left the United Kingdom, the remainder will surely need a new name. I suggest 'Kingdom of England and Wales', which abbreviates nicely to KEW.Finally, is all this desirable? Viewing it from an English perspective, I don't care strongly either way (though I would care rather more in the event of the 'West Lothian' nightmare scenario). In politics, as in other matters, 'if it aint' broke, don't fix it'. I cannot see anything so badly wrong with the present system that a breakup of the Union is necessary as a remedy. Breakup would also involve a host of complications over international obligations, the EU, finance, the monarchy, and the armed forces. But I assume that these could be resolved without insuperable difficulties. In particular, I assume that Scotland, a united Ireland, and KEW (or whatever) would be members of the EU, so that free movement of goods, labour, and capital would continue. The loss of revenues from North Sea oil (asuming that these go mainly to Scotland) would be roughly balanced by the end of tax subsidies from England to Scotland. The economic effects of a breakup would therefore be modest.Subject to these complications being dealt with, I think there would be considerable potential advantages for England. The centre of political gravity would shift towards the free-enterprise right, and both Labour and Conservatives would respond by reshaping their policies. But the greatest advantage might be psychological. With the end of the United Kingdom, we could draw a line under the errors of the post-war years, with their delusion of continuing great power status. We could stop pretending to be a world policeman, and reshape the armed forces for the purpose of national defence and internal security. The UK's nuclear weapons could be decommisioned or converted to a small, flexible, genuinely independent 'force de frappe' (i.e., not under de facto American control, like the present Trident system). We could stop apologising for the British Empire, which was as much Scottish and Irish as English anyway. We could pursue foreign, internal security, and immigration policies based on national self-interest. But I stress that these are only potential advantages, and they would depend on finding English politicians with balls, which have been in short supply in recent years.

Do I detect a bit of anti-Americanism/anti-Bushism here?

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