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News, Bad Drivers, Technical ·Sunday March 30, 2008 @ 18:27 EDT (link)

20080325: WA MPD 4 (custom) plate, white Cadillac Esplanade (an SUV, what a shock), "Pacific" something on the side (Pacific Geriatric Rentals?). Picked up this bogey along Novelty Hill at around 1815, went slow (about 10 under) all the way home (until I turned off at Big Rock Road), in rush hour. Perhaps a spiritual cousin of BTLH?

20080315: Went out to re-frame my Isaiah 40:31 picture ($92 with tax), and bought a few more DVDs: The Riddick Trilogy (3-in-1), Battlestar Galactica (we may start buying/recording the TV series; this is the movie that started it all), Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard, Dirty Harry, A Few Good Men, and Kiss the Girls (mostly from the bargain bin).

20080316: DVD watch tables/page code activated.

20080317: Finished Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Back to GRE preparation. Finally got a good diff of AsPublished (Gold) against EcmaDocumentation (current Production); there are a lot of new sections.

Got property tax information (not a bill; mortgage provider pays it): of the almost $4k I pay, almost exactly 50% goes to schools that I do not use nor benefit from (if you want to argue that, read back a ways for refutations of the obvious); other items are reasonable (library, emergency services, ferry/ports, water management). To be fair, people with children should pay all school-related expenses, on a per-child basis, reducing my bill by half and increasing theirs by same, depending on count(sprog).

20080318: Started using a day planner (the CLAC one, as it happens).

20080321: Watched Battlestar Galactica; pretty cheesy since it's old, although it's contemporary with Star Wars which has stood the test of time much better (I suppose the updates help, too).

20080322: Broadstripe is doing much better; average (over a little more than a week) is down to about 3% packets dropped.

20080325: I put my web pages and code into Subversion (source control, "svn") recently, and it's already been helpful: it helped me see what changes temporarily broke my bank statement verification script (reconciles our database against our bank's Quicken-format output files).

20080327: Fixed internal finance page currency conversion (using an external site); the site started returning gzipped content, so I used WWW::Mechanize::GZIp instead of plain WWW::Mechanize, and the match code needed a small tweak.

20080328: Looks like Spamhaus re-adds everything to their PBL (Policy Block List) yearly, even after removal. I understand the reason (because the IP could be reused and really be dynamic, depending on how the ISP assigns IPs) but it's still annoying. Has a CAPTCHA, so I can't script my site's removal (which is the point, of course).

20080329: Snow in March, stays, just a couple of inches.

20080330: Honey's picking up my (Isaiah 40:31) picture today; frame is fixed (damaged January 18). Yay, it's here, I hung it back on the wall. Updated (emerge --update world) MythTV system, kernel and all. A few conflicts, but nothing unmanageable.

DVDs finished: Live Free or Die Hard, Blade: Trinity, The Matrix Revolutions, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series, Kiss the Girls, Dirty Harry, John Travolta Triple Feature.