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Tuesday June 11, 2013

Today’s text

Luke 7:36-39

One of the Pharisees invited [Jesus] to a meal. When he arrived at the Pharisee's house and took his place at table, suddenly a woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him at his feet, weeping, and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, he would know who this woman is and what sort of person it is who is touching him and what a bad name she has.'

What do you see?

A woman with a bad reputation or a human soul who loves extravagantly? A histrionic display or an unshackled heart?

A generation ago Billy Joel sang that he’d “rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.” Jesus agrees with Billy. So do I.

When the saints, like this Pharisee, focus on properness and purity they are no fun and uninteresting. They are also blind to the only things that matter, loving, laughter and life.

And the Spirit of God is nothing if not the Spirit of life, laughter and love.

The Divine Spirit sets the heart free from its narrow constrictions to risk looking ridiculous, over-the-top and foolish for the sake of the love that bubbles at its core.

The Pharisee, Simon by name, lives comfortably within the constrictions of proprieties of law and convention, but I’d rather hang out with the woman who cried at Jesus feet and wiped them with her tears.

God knows, she’d make me nervous. I’d squirm in her presence because at age 60 there is still too damn much of Simon in me.

I learned social niceties quite young and was told the ‘nice people’ do the ‘right things’ don’t have bad reputations, and ‘good Christians’ are polite, respectful and don’t engage in unsettling emotional displays..

I should have known immediately that this was nonsense and had nothing to do with Jesus, but I guess I am a slow learner.

The woman would shame me, too. The free flow of her heart, shedding tears onto the feet of the soul who had healed her soul, reveals the hesitance of my heart, my tendency to hold back and be cautious. Such hesitancy resists the Spirit’s urge to praise and sing, laugh and weep at the crazy giddiness of the gospel of God’s illimitable love.

It also obscures the beauty and joy that would flow through me (and you) just as certainly as it does through this woman.

Weeping, pouring her heart onto Jesus feet, she is a compelling portrait of a soul set free, a heart come alive. She, not Simon, is the model of true humanity.

She invites us to throw our cautions to the wind, forget our self-protective proprieties and let ourselves feel … and express … the crazy love that is the Spirit within, hungry to be set free.

Pr. David L. Miller

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Preparedness Project: "Go Fish" Bag

We have one more St. Patrick's Day Game
for YOU.
Help LUCKY find his 4-Leaf Clover!
Here's the Packet:
Print Shamrocks onto White Cardstock
Cut and Laminate.
Attach the Shamrock's to Popsicle Sticks
and hide them all over the yard.
What a perfect day for a Treasure Hunt!
Each Shamrock has a Number or Points.
The person with the most points WINS!

Now let's go FISHING . . .
Go Fish in a Bag, is the
Preparedness Project for Today!
This game will go into your
Family Emergency Activity Bag.
(It's great for church as well!)
You will need:
1 Small Bag of Rice
Plastic Letter Tiles
(I got mine at Walmart for $4.95)
You'll have extra . . . but we have plans to use them later.
or Wooden Game Tiles
1 Vertical Badge ID Holder
Printed PDF File Pictures of Fish
I also added some plastic fish . . . just for fun!
(I got mine from Zurcher's.)
Here's the PDF:
Photo Mounts or Double Sided Tape
1/2 Yard Heavy Clear Vinyl
(I got mine at JoAnn's in the Tablecloth Section.)
Quilt Binding Tape & Matching Thread
and a Sewing Machine
Cut 2 pieces of 8 1/2" by 8 1/2" Clear Vinyl
Sew around 3 of the sides - 1/4" seam.
Add Rice, Plastic Fish and Game Pieces.
Make sure the rice only fills the bag 1/2 way up.
To make game pieces:
Cut fish from PDF page and stick with double-sided tape
to the plastic or wooden tile.
You will stick a fish on one side and the "Go Fish"
square on the other side.
Finish sewing the the last half of the bag.
Add quilting tape to finish the edges.
Make sure you push the rice and pieces back when
you are finishing the edges so that you don't
hit anything with your sewing machine needle!
Finish by adding a ribbon with the badge attached.
I put the ribbon over the seam ends where
I started and ended with the quilting tape
so that you couldn't see the seam.
This will hold the pictures of all of the fish so that they
know what to look for.
Cut cards and place back to back in the clear
vertical badge holder.
Here's the PDF:
Add the picture to the badge and  . . . YOU'RE DONE!
Soooo Easy and the best part, beside hours of
entertainment for little ones . . .
You will at least have a bag of rice
to eat in an emergency!

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Roses, Gerbera Daisies, Mums, Alstromeria ~

How delightful it was to work with Jennifer, from Ohio, to preserve her sister, Amy's Bridal Bouquet and make beautiful gifts for Christmas! All the bridesmaid's flowers were also sent to me and other gifts were made from them! Pictured are Bookmarks, a Beveled Glass Ornament and 11x14 Preserved Bridal Bouquet, vacuum-sealed with the Wedding Photograph! Note that in the upper corner of the art is one flower from each bridesmaid bouquet and in the bottom corner is the boutonniere from the Groom!


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Sunday, March 13, 2016

New Discoveries.

As with all new endeavors, there are always new discoveries. Much to my surprise, a recent project for one of my doctoral classes opened up an entirely new realm. It is the world of video.
I am so grateful to Dr. East Haradin for her encouragement  in my Practice Based Learning class. She has lent us her heart and offered support and motivation to grow, expand and to ask ourselves how we can become more of ourselves and bring this facet of our being to the medicine that we practice.

Just weeks after completing a three year professional training in Somatic Experiencing, I began my Doctoral classes through Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where I received my MSTOM. The completion of this program is the next part of the journey as I begin to research Integrative Neuroscience and explore our relationships with rhythms and the natural world.

So many beautiful aspects of my work are now coming together. Creating the video with pictures that I have taken and small videos from nature has been a reminder of how everything may be interconnected, even though it may not always appear so at the moment.

My fascination with nature, internal regulation, its' rhythms, and mending of the nervous system are coming together in a poetic and personally meaningful way.
This is the first video that I have ever made, but I'm inspired to create more pieces in the future.

Thank you Dr. East Haradin, Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Mary Giuffra for being such generous luminaries on the path.

Happy Spring!

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Sandals Comes To Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The Barbados government has signed an agreement with Sandals Resorts International (SRI) paving the way for the Jamaica-based hotel chain to take control of the Almond Beach Village.

The Freundel Stuart administration also announced that SRI has already purchased the Casuarina Hotel in the south of the island for its ‘Couples’ resort.

“We are quite excited to have both of these properties coming to Barbados at this time. It is a tremendous boost for our tourism industry at this time. It sends the right signal as far as confidence is concerned. It is going to be an investment north of BDS$500 million (One Barbados dollar = US$0.50 cents) over the next several years and it will see 1,500 people eventually employed over both hotels,” Tourism Minister, Richard Sealy, said.

The two resorts would bring an additional 800 rooms to the island’s hotel stock and, according to Sealy, could result in 130,000 more visitors coming to the island.

He said an additional benefit for Barbados as a result of the agreements would be the amount of income generated on the local market.

“In terms of the spend, these are high quality resorts and apart from the employment that I spoke of… the estimate is that BDS$22 million would be sourced in terms of local goods from Barbadian businesses,” he added.

SRI founder, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, said he was pleased with the acquisition, noting “being in the Caribbean and not being prominent in Barbados is not good for my organization”.

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men seldom make passes
In the words of the great Cicero: Caecilius est pater. Metella est mater. Quintus est filius. Okay, really those were the words of the Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 1, where we followed the lives of a Pompeian family, which were generally unexciting, until the end of the unit, when Vesuvius began erupting and multi in flammis peribant.

I thought about them when I saw the preview for this week's episode. I didn't expect to actually see them in this week's episode. *geek love*

Otherwise, no deep thoughts. Episode = fabulous.

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You got to fic Pompeii to learn Latin? How cool is that???

No fic, but the little stories in the course were pretty fun. We were using it in uni but it was really meant for middle school. I remember our prof reading us a bit from her teacher's guide about how to deal with our distress when all the characters died tragically. (Except Quintus, who escaped to Briton and had further adventures in Bath.)

Excellent -- could you please tell me the name of the text? My son should learn Latin, and he's just going into Middle School. :-D

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Oh, duh... Hal said the same, though I guess I thought she went to Cambridge and took the course when I read it. *facepalms*

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I think I'm falling in love with this show even more, if that's possible.

It's more likely that they were both using the same historical source, I guess, but it was still really cool. :)

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Creed Engineers has come forward to help printers making their life easier by offering Vinsak brand CtP (Computer to Plate) plates. India is a country with over 1,50,000 printers (approx collected figure) comprising majorly of tiny and small. With the introduction of innovative products in all fields of graphic arts during last two to three decades, the print quality of printed products – commercials, books, packaging, etc – has come up significantly. The credit towards this goes ultimately to availability of equipments and consumables comprising of high quality printing machines (sheetfed and webfed), richly produced printing inks, highly textured paper manufactured within India or imported one, and finally the printing plates (pre-sensitized and CtP).

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But with the passage of time, the entries to all such ‘out of bond’ manufacturing eventually opened up and new breed of entrepreneurs surfaced. These new sets of producers help small time users a lot because of a close personal contacts and encouraging adoption of new technologies without much hesitation which otherwise have been a forte for comparatively big time users.

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Example - your hips have a tremendous amount of inherent 3D movement capacity. If any of your two hip joints do not move efficiently because of lack of mobility or stability (usually both) forces will be dissipated somewhere else. The other segment/segments that have to take the extra forces will not be able to tolerate the loads (over time) that are placed on the tissues.

Therefore, most low back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain and cervical pain have a culprit that has to be regulated. There are however many great traditional strategies for the symptom itself which is still valuable for us.

Since the hip itself has many large muscles and strong connective tissues it has a great amount of force tolerance in all three planes of motion.

Most people today do not have great hip motion in all three planes. There are many factors affecting the hip structures. We have our daily environment, asymmetrical sports and repetitive loading of the same structures in the same angles and speeds.

A lot has been accomplished to establish good routines in physical training to take care of these problems. It has unfortunately failed since it is not based on scientific principles of forces. Most stretching, training and rehab are based on muscle research only and do not incorporate all three planes of motion. Strategies that just incorporate three planes of motion without other considerations are better than one plane but not specific enough in most cases.

Again, many of the strategies are based on insufficient research, tradition, expert opinions and structural understanding of muscles. There is an abundance of research that we can use to claim that leg extension is a great exercise for the anterior thigh. This research does not hold water against authentic movement.

Thus, the missing link is functional understanding of muscles, nerves, fascia and bones and how forces act on them. With our exercise system you will use the functional strategy which is a logic solution to permanently change movement behavior.

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Very interesting and our understanding is established in literature. Muscle is however a very small piece of the complex human movement puzzle. Since so many "diagnostic" tools today tells us that one muscle is weak, short or has a timing issue - it is interesting to understand the basic principle behind muscle function.

We know that muscles do not have brains therefore they are in authentic situations not driven by thoughts, they are driven by forces ultimately the proprioceptors themselves. We do have conscious tasks but the movement itself is subconscious. This is why it is not a good strategy to think about "straight spine", "contract your glutes" and so on since those queues or thought processes are not authentic.

We have to make the muscles work based on the reactions of the environment,

We know so much more today about connective tissues than we did before. If we can accept that connective tissues like fascia, aponeurosis, ligaments and tendons have far more to do with human movement function than what we previously understood it is clear that we have to change our training, rehab and conditioning.

What we seek with our interventions here at Procedos is not only muscular reactions in 3D but are even more interested in the movement of the connective tissue in 3D eventually with load for those who tolerate it.

The best movements we do are elastic by nature. This means that less ATP is demanded by the cell. Traditional strength training is mostly based on TUT (time under tension), mechanical tension, muscle damage and metabolic stress. Those principles have given us much in terms of understanding the stress adaption for muscles.

We do however continue to evolve our training methodology based on the principles of biology. If less ATP is demanded by our cells when the body can create elastic recoil movements, we will sustain movement for a longer period of time without fatigue. On top of this, if the training now is in 3D we will also strengthen the connective tissues since mechanical loading will create biochemical responses that densify the connective tissue. In this video you can see how the fibroblast moves through the collagen and makes it stronger.

Think about this - your anterior cruciate ligament is connective tissue. Do you want a strong ACL? Do you want strong connective tissue over your back that can transfer forces to other places? Yes, you do and there is only one way to systematically train for these adaptations - Welcome to Procedos.

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SuperValu Inc., one of the nation’s leading grocery distributors, will welcome more than 3,900 grocery industry professionals to St. Paul, MN, this week for the company’s first-ever national sales expo, a three-day trade event. The expo will feature more than 20 educational sessions and over 330 expo booths, providing independent grocery retailers from over 1,250 stores the opportunity to gain valuable insights, innovative merchandising ideas and best-in-class grocery retail solutions from industry experts.

The expo, themed Sales 4 All Seasons, began Aug. 12 and runs through Aug. 14. The event will be held at the RiverCentre convention center in downtown St. Paul.

“We are thrilled to invite many of the grocery retail industry’s finest to our inaugural national sales expo,” Janel Haugarth, SuperValu's executive vice president and president of independent business and supply chain services, said in a press release. “The Sales 4 All Seasons event was created specifically for our independent grocery retailers. Along with unprecedented opportunities to network and share best practices with their peers, the expo will offer our retailers a one-stop resource to drive sales, build loyalty and grow their businesses.”

Sales 4 All Seasons will be the company’s largest, most comprehensive selling expo to date and will feature 330-plus vendor booths staffed by category experts on everything from fresh produce, meat and seafood to center store, frozen, bakery and deli. Seasonal merchandise offerings, consumer packaged goods suppliers and service providers from across the country will offer diverse solutions for SuperValu’s expansive independent retailer base. Expo guests will also have exclusive access to new products and SuperValu’s innovative private brand lines, as well as limited-time promotional buying opportunities.

In addition to a chance to join their peers to discuss the state of grocery retail and what lies ahead for the industry, expo visitors had the opportunity to attend some of the more than 20 educational sessions during the Sales 4 All Seasons “Education Day” on Aug. 12. Sessions explored a range of diverse, on-trend topics — such as how to drive sales through gluten-free products and smarter snacking options, and the effects of new technologies on the retail industry.

Headlining the expo’s Education Day was keynote speaker and best-selling author Jason Dorsey. Known as The Gen Y Guy, Dorsey wrote his first best-selling book at 18 and has been featured on a variety of shows, including "60 Minutes," "20/20," "The Today Show," "The View" and "The Early Show." Dorsey will deliver unique insights and research on millennial shoppers, an increasingly important and unique demographic in grocery retailing.

Adding to the Sales 4 All Seasons experience, SuperValu has also launched a mobile app to assist attendees as they navigate the convention hall. The SuperValu Expo app, which is available for all iOS and Android-compatible devices, will provide an easy-to-use event map, a schedule of educational sessions and activities, articles related to topics discussed throughout the event and more.

Additionally, SuperValu will announce the winners of its 2014 Master Marketer Competition on Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. The competition recognizes and celebrates the top marketing campaigns led by the company’s independent retailers across the country.

“The Sales 4 All Season expo is not only an excellent opportunity to come together and  share the latest innovations in grocery retailing, it is also a chance to acknowledge and commend the industry’s best work from the past year,” said Haugarth. “The Master Marketer Competition is a way to acknowledge the exemplary work of our independent retailers, who go above and beyond each day to grow their business.”

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Second, it is again a good idea to label your boxes by which room they need to go to in the new house. Unlabeled boxes can get missed in the mess up, or you could end up with many duplicates with the same name. You might have ten packages of garments, for example, but whose clothes are they? Tagging boxes through which room they go to in the new residence also helps your movers put them in the right place for you, making things much quicker for you to check them and put stuffs away in their new spots.

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Freedom "Freedom is more than a word" {UK} [1972] (Progressive rock, Heavy)

Vertigo vertigo vertigo... A really strange label that had (or have) bands like Black Sabbath, Dr.Z, Tudor Lodge. And everything is getting expensive these days. But how ever Freedoom its a really nice progressive rock band and pretty heavy too, from the UK and the opening track is really awesome with viola and great guitars. If you know anything about the band you can write it in the comments. That would be really kind.

The line up:
Roger Saunders: Vocals, Piano, Lead Guitar
Steve Jolly: Lead Guitar
Pete Dennis: Bass, Accoustic Guitar, Vocals
Bobby Harisson: Drums, percussion, vocals

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This is from tapestry of delights...
A heavy rock group who had a good live act but whose albums were rather mundane. The best track on Through The Years (the US edition) was Freestone, the opener. The title cut, Get Yourself Together and London City were competent but unexceptional heavy rock tracks, whilst Thanks was mellow and more mainstream. The final track, Toe Grabber, was based on boring guitar riffs. By the time of their final effort for Vertigo in 1972 they'd veered towards country-rock!

Bobby Harrison had previously banged the skins for Procol Harum and went on to perform vocal duties with Snafu. Ray Royer had played guitar in Procol Harum. They formed Freedom when they were given a generous out of court financial settlement to leave Procol Harum because they were considered to be incompatible with the rest of the band's sound.

They also contributed two tracks, Nobody and Frustrated Woman, from their first album to Probe's Handle With Care sampler. The flip side of their Mercury 45 can also be heard on Psychedelia, Vol. 2 (LP) and Hen's Teeth Vol. 1 (CD). This is an excellent slice of pop-psych penned by Ray Royer.

Prior to their first UK album they put out an album called At Last, which was only released in Germany (Metronome MLP 15371) 1970 and in France on (Byg 529325) 1970. This is reputed to contain some good slices of psychedelia. During the Winter of 1967/8 Freedom (Harrison, Royer, Mike Lease (keyb'ds) and Steve Shirley (bs, vcls) were invited to contribute to the Soundtrack of the film 'Nerosubianco' ('The Attraction'), which was masterminded by noted Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis. The resulting album has now been issued in the UK by Tenth Planet and sounding similar to Procol Harum or instrumentally to early Traffic is worth a listen.

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Hit Dice: 30d12+33 (228 hp)
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The Stealth bonus listed above does not include the -10 penalty for its constant howling.

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I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

“I’m interested in how many times you felt it was necessary to say the word normal”

Now here is a nice little oddity. A British-Irish Supernatural Horror film set in America featuring Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd.

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Dark in tone and humour I am not a serial killer succeeds in doing what we have seen before but offering us something new.

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I could watch Christopher Lloyd in anything so it was great to see him try something different.

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What’s the newest Python Comp. Sci. Textbook?

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

A Computer Science textbook that uses Python as its core language was released, I believe, this year. However, I CAN’T FIND IT! I searched google, amazon,, and used all the terms you’d normally think of using, and I can’t find this book anywhere. The book is black, and has a picture of a snake’s head on it. Can anyone help me out with finding this book?

Where Can I Go That Isn’t Twitter?

Friday, November 28th, 2008

In the few years since Twitter’s launch, they have shrunk the number of ways you can interact with it, shrunk the number of hours in the day when you can reliably get or send messages through it, and, now, shrunk the number of useful web-based services by two, with the announcement that stikkit and I Want Sandy will be shutting down, as a result of their purchase of Values of N, creators of the two sites.

I only just started trying to use twitter again in the past week or so, and my desktop client has recorded at least 3 or 4 outages in the past week. Between that, and now this news, I think I’m just going to give up. What are they planning to do — add Sandy-like features to twitter? Why? To attract more users, insuring that their availability will sink to zero-nines? Blech.

Linux on Laptop = Epic Fail

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I brought my MacBook Pro in for a warranty repair yesterday around noon. Since then I’ve been using a Lenovo T61 to get basic work done, and also to see if any progress has been made in the area of Linux support for my laptop. I bought this laptop specifically because a website said that it was very well supported by Linux distributions “out of the box”, including video and wireless. I was sure to make hardware choices that didn’t require special third-party drivers… I’ve been doing this for 10 years, so I have some understanding of how to buy a laptop that I plan to put Linux on. Well, this time I apparently failed.

First, I had Ubuntu installed, and I was never able to keep the wireless card working consistently. To be honest, Ubuntu is the best distro I’ve had on this thing so far. Next, I gave OpenSUSE 11 a shot, and there’s been no end to the issues. Of course, it started with the wireless card. I have an Intel 3945ABG wireless card, according to lspci and dmesg output. In fact, here’s my lspci output right here:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)

I’m running the KDE4 desktop, and tried using the default NetworkManager icon that’s in the systray to get things working. From what I saw there, it appeared that my card wasn’t scanning. I put in my network details manually, and tried to connect, and it failed with no errors. In the NetworkManager log there was lots of output, but nothing particularly useful. It just said the association took to long and that it was now marking that connection as ‘invalid’. Great. So here I am, trying to use Linux on the desktop, and only 5 minutes after the very first system boot, I’m tailing log files and debugging, and basically playing sysadmin, which is exactly what I don’t want to be doing on my desktop system. Restart NetworkManager, see what dhclient is doing, reboot, check /etc/modprobe.d, lsmod…. fail. Now what?

Well, I opened kwifimanager, and it said that I had indeed associated with an access point. So… I *am* scanning? Hmm. I had no IP address, so I figured I had probably fat-fingered my WEP settings somewhere. Tailing /var/log/messages agrees, saying WEP decryption is failing. So I double-check everything, all looks normal and correct to me, I try again, and No Bueno. *sigh*.

Finally, I reverted to command-line tactics, and ran this little line:

iwconfig wlan0 essid <myssid> key <mykey>

Magically, it works, where all of the GUI nonsense had failed. Now here’s a question: how the hell do you get this to “just work” at boot time? Well, I had about 10 emails to send to clients, so I put that question off and fired up a browser and…. fail. WTF?

I had an IP address, pinged my router, pinged another host on the network, all good. Pinged an external IP I know by heart, fail. Ugh. Ran ‘cat /etc/resolv.conf’ — empty. Apparently, dhclient didn’t update the information it got from my router. It also didn’t update when I set the domain in NetworkManager to ‘home’, because it still said ‘search site’. I added the proper lines in there, and tried again in the browser… fail. Now what?!?

Ran ‘netstat -rn’. I don’t have a default gateway. *sigh*…

route add default gw

And I finally have internet access.

Of course, I can’t work 24 hours a day, so I went to bed, and left my laptop running so I could get right back to work in the morning. Or not.

I had foolishly chosen to use an OpenGL screensaver. Overnight, it completely locked up the machine, rendering it useless without forcibly rebooting it. So much for getting right back to work.

Well, let’s see if I can get some of these issues fixed by updating the software, since I’m now at least connected to the internet (of course, after the forced reboot, I had to do the iwconfig->route add routine again). Ran the updater, picked some extra repositories, and it goes off to set things up. Unfortunately, it also prompts me to import probably 50 or so GPG keys. Annoying. More annoying is, after all of that, it fails to update any of my software, even though it tells me there are updates available. Why you ask? Here’s what I got…

Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found)

Click ok. Get same error again. Click ok. Get slightly different error…

Unexpected exception. Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found)

Click Ok, get another message…

Please file a bug report about this. See for instructions.

I go there, the URL isn’t valid. I find the Troubleshooting page on my own, and there’s a bunch of generic troubleshooting information there. More command line sysadmin-ish stuff in there. Just the kind of stuff I don’t need to be spending otherwise billable time on. I give up and decide that I’ll just deal with it in its broken-ass state for the next 10 hours or so until I can get my beloved MacBook Pro back.

Help me pick a new feed reader

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I’ve been using Google Reader since it was created. I really love the *idea* of Google Reader. I like that scrolling through the posts marks them as read. I like that you can toggle between list and expanded views of the posts. I like that you can search within a feed or across all feeds (though selecting multiple specific feeds would be great).

All of that said, I’d like to explore other avenues, because I don’t like that there’s, like, zero flexibility in how the Google Reader interface is configured. My problem starts with large fonts…

I use relatively large fonts. If you increase the font twice up from the default size in firefox on a mac (using the cmd-+ keystroke, twice), and you have more than just a couple of feeds, you wind up with this really horrible side pane with the bottom half of it requiring a scroll bar, and the text wraps, and it just looks terrible. What makes this really REALLY REALLY annoying is that:

  1. I don’t use the features included in the *top* part of the side pane, ever, at all (like ‘trends’ and stuff), and
  2. You can’t resize or disable that part of the side pane.

I’ve used folders and some other features to try to alleviate the issue, but it’s just a compromise, and I’d rather not do that if something else would work better for me. I’ve had a couple of quick glances at just a couple of other readers, but I thought I’d get some input from the lazyweb to see what your thoughts are. Is there a browser-based feed reader that has some of Google’s niceties, but perhaps with a little bit nicer/more configurable interface? Out of curiosity, are you using a Mac-compatible fat-client reader that just totally r0cks in some way? If so, let me know in the comments.

MacBook Pro: Should I Just Get a Refurb?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I hate glossy screens. I’ve tried them. I don’t like them. It’s true that it would probably be good for my eyes in some way, since I do a lot of reading on the laptop and things *are* sharper with the glossy screen. However, there’s just no way I can deal with having a glossy screen all the time, because I don’t have control over the lighting when I’m out and about at client sites or working from a coffee shop or something. If there’s a really busy background, or a huge window at your back, the screen becomes distracting and in some cases unusable due to its highly reflective nature.

Maybe this is a ploy by Apple to actually sell off all of their refurbs and clearance items in a hurry, and then they’ll offer the option on the new MBPs.

This experience has shown me something interesting about myself and my stance toward Linux on the desktop. I’ve run Linux on desktops for about 10 years. In the past 2 years it’s been less often, because that’s around the time I started making friends with the Mac. Over that time, I have apparently reached the point where I will sooner deal with the glossy screen nonsense than go back to using Linux on the desktop full time.

If Apple provides nothing else of value to the Linux community, they at least serve as a proof of concept that, if hardware compatibility is removed from the equation completely, UNIX-based machines can be extremely successful desktops.

Boto 1.5b glitch, and workaround

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Boto is a Python library for interacting with Amazon’s web services. I’ve used it in the past, and am currently using it for an ‘s3get’ implementation based on a simple example I found buried in a post on Patrick Altman’s blog.

While testing my code, I noticed I was getting import errors from boto/, because I didn’t have a module on my system named ‘hashlib’. Then I found an svn trunk commit that clued me in to the fact that I wasn’t supposed to have hashlib, because I was running a pre-2.5 version of Python. They had put in a fix for pre-2.5 users, but somehow it wasn’t being obeyed.

Then I noticed that the import errors weren’t from, where the fix was committed, but from, which was explicitly importing the module itself. Closer inspection revealed that it was also importing, which itself imports hashlib. I commented out the explicit import in (and, later, in boto/s3/, and stopped getting import errors.

If you’re still having issues with Patrick’s code, it’s probably because you need to change this line:

if name == 'main':

To this:

if __name__ == '__main__':

MySQL Problem and Solution Posts: r0ck.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Taming MySQL is… challenging. Especially in very large, fast-growth, ‘always-on’ environments. It’s one of those things where you seemingly can never know all there is to know about it. That’s why I really like coming across posts like this one from FreshBooks that describes a very real problem that was affecting their users, how they dealt with it, why *that* failed, and what the final fix was. Post a link to your favorite MySQL Problem and Solution post in the comments (oh yeah, and “subscribe to comments” should be working now!)

On Remote Workers and Working Remotely

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I’ve been on both sides of the remote worker relationship. On the manager side, I’ve managed some good-sized projects using an all-remote work force. Indeed, I’ve hired, managed, fired, and promoted workers without ever knowing what they look like. On the worker side, I do most of my work remotely, and I have for some time now. Judging by the amount of repeat business I get, I’d say that I’m more than acceptably productive working remotely.

In dealing with various clients, recruiters, prospective employers, business owners, and talking to friends who manage people for a living, I’ve heard pretty much every excuse/reason there is for not wanting to deal with a remote work force. I’ve heard and experienced successes with remote workers as well, and they all have a few key things in common, which are missing from the stories of failure. I’ll talk about them in a minute.

I first want to just say that I’m not some kind of fanboy who thinks remote workers are the answer to every problem. There are valid reasons for not having remote workers. For example, it’d be hard to build cars with a remote work force. Some things (some!) just require a physical presence. Whoever maintains the printers at your company really has to be around to change out ink cartridges and stuff like that.

There are certain classes of jobs, though, that are well-suited to working remotely. There are even classes of jobs that are necessarily performed remotely to some degree (field sales and support technicians for example), that could be made 100% remote with the proper tools and processes in place.

So what makes a remote worker success story different from a story of failure?

Always be prepared…

The number one difference I’ve seen between success and failure in managing a remote work force is that  successful managers spent the time to prepare the managers, the team, the department, the organization, and the remote workers themselves to work remotely.

If you don’t prepare for a remote work force, you will fail miserably. As a result, I’m a big advocate of treating “Let’s go remote!” as an internal project with goals and milestones just like any other project. Preparing an organization to manage a remote work force takes a good deal of forethought, with a focus on communication and collaboration tools, reporting, accountability, scheduling, etc. In addition, you have to prepare the remote workers themselves, to insure they know what’s expected of them in terms of reporting their status, scheduling, communication, etc. They also need to know *about*, and *how to use* the tools they’ll be expected to use from home.

You have to plan this. You have to prepare, or you’re going to be like the HR manager who told me their company no longer allows for remote workers because “we tried it once and the guy made a complete mess of things”. When I asked the HR manager why he attributed that to the geographic location of the worker, he said “good point, he could just as well have made a mess here in the office”. You need good workers no matter where they’re going to work. The workers need expectations and goals from the manager, and the manager needs feedback and communication (and results!) from the worker. Tools help to facilitate these things. This is already a long post, so I’ll probably make a tools list in another post.

Communicate, and set expectations

Before the tools come other higher-level decisions and communication. For example, one problem I’ve heard more than once about remote workers is “we can’t hire a remote worker full-time, because then everyone will want to work from home”. As if they didn’t already all want to work from home! Everyone would love to have the option! Even if they didn’t take advantage of it, they’d consider it a really cool perk! They’d tell all of their friends about it, because it would make them jealous, and guess who their friends will contact first when they start to look for other opportunities?

You have to start somewhere, and you can’t just swing the barn doors open and let everyone go their own way on day 1. If you have an existing corporate structure in place with assets and services and regular meetings and the like, then you have to decide who can make the most benefit from a remote situation the soonest, make them the pilot group, and manage the expectations of the rest of the organization while the pilot group prepares to move to a remote workspace.

1, 10, 100, 1000

A common software application rollout strategy is to make it accessible to 1 user, then 10, then 100, then 1000, then… move up from there. In preparing your organization or department, you might consider a similar strategy.

I work for a client right now where I’m the “1”. If I can work effectively with the rest of the team (in the office), if I can produce results, remain accessible as-needed during working hours, manage the expectations of my team with regards to my presence (appointments happen), and overall be an asset to the team, then the management may decide that it can work on some larger scale – even if ‘larger’ means 2 instead of 1. It might also be useful to do a ‘remote rotation’ so that glitches can be caught early before making a physical presence in the office optional.

Success, of course, means getting together with the team and figuring out what tools will be used to best emulate an office working environment. We use IRC for 99% of our communication, falling back to email when we need to cc managers, we have a wiki for documentation and status updates, we have a trouble ticket system, everyone has everyone else’s phone number, blackberry PIN, or whatever. We’re a technical group doing system administration. It’s working wonderfully.

“But if the sysadmins work from home, the developers will want to work from home!” Maybe so. That’s where you have to manage expectations, and communicate with your workers to let them know that the company’s ‘office optional’ project is in an early alpha stage, that it’s being tested on the group most familiar with the technologies involved, and most capable of exploiting those technologies successfully to produce results. Once the geeks work out the shortcomings, and management is able to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan, the tests will become more widespread.

Really, it’s not a whole lot different from doing anything else that affects the whole company: changing payroll providers, healthcare options, software and desktop hardware upgrades and replacements… it just takes communication. The process has to be managed, just like every other process.

There’s more than one way to do it!

There’s no one solution out there. When I joined php|architect Magazine in 2003, it was run by Marco Tabini, and I was a remote editor. A couple of months after joining, I became editor in chief, and was in charge of remotely managing the magazine. I did it differently from Marco, but he still remained involved and engaged through good communication.

Python Magazine was created and managed by me, and for the entire lifespan of the magazine, I have not seen anyone else involved in its production in person. Ever. Design, production, web site admin, executive administration, tech editors, authors, accountants… time lines, budgets and planning documents… all remote, and mostly delegated. I started the magazine with the thought that at some point someone more engaged in the community and with Python should take charge — I was just a “temp” to get the vision off the ground. Sure enough, when I handed the magazine over to Doug Hellmann, he did things differently from me, and it’s working out wonderfully for him as well!

Everyone has their own management style. Don’t think that just because your management style is a little unique you can’t handle remote workers. Good managers are creative, and aren’t afraid to execute on creative solutions.

Reunion with Drupal, Break from Django

Monday, November 17th, 2008

My Drupal Reunion

I started using drupal maybe 3-4 years ago. At the time I wasn’t all that impressed. I liked it better than Joomla (Mambo, at that time), and it was a little more featureful than PHP-Nuke. But even back then I hated that this thing was really making some sweeping, grand assumptions about what I would be using my Drupal site for. I used Drupal for, and it was ok. I left Drupal once, to give MediaWiki a shot, but the truth is I didn’t want a wiki, so I went out and tested a bunch of other applications, and wound up back at Drupal. The 5.5 release was quite a bit better, and it got the job done.

About 2 weeks ago (maybe less?) I downloaded version 6.6. I poked. I prodded. I looked for new themes and found lots of them, and they were pretty cool. I looked for theme and module-building tutorials, and there were lots of them, and even entire books were published on each of the topics – even specifically for version 6 of Drupal. I looked for modules, and found a few useful ones who actually showed a trend of following the Drupal releases pretty closely. I also found that a couple of things I had used as modules in earlier releases were now built-in.

I fiddled on and off for a few days and was able to get a site together for my company’s web site that’s way, way better than the wordpress site that was there before. I’m also redoing the main site using Drupal.

What about Django?

I know that lots of you were encouraging me to keep moving ahead with Django. I *will* be moving ahead with Django at some point, but what I found is that doing example projects using the dev server and deploying a real application using Apache are such vastly different beasts that doing the former doesn’t really help make you qualified to perform the latter. When I had my site ready to go, and I had it working on my locally-installed dev server, I found myself completely lost when it came time to get it working on my webfaction account. It really shouldn’t be that hard, but it is. Or it was for me.

You can all take comfort in knowing that I still hate PHP and consider it a necessary evil. For the moment, though, I have a couple of projects involving PHP coming up. By the time those projects end, I hope I can be more skilled with Django, and with Django deployment. I’m not even going to mess with the dev server anymore. It’s just a damn tease. I’m going to sit down and spend some time with Django on Apache with mod_* and finally come up with answers to all the questions I had that nobody anywhere seemed to have any reasonable answers to. When I figure them out, I’ll post here and you can all flame me or learn something new, perhaps depending on your own skill level 🙂

In the mean time, while I don’t typically do book reviews, I’d recommend that anyone using Django 1.x stay away from the book “Practical Django Projects”. It’s specifically non-1.0, and you’ll be tripped up from the very first sample app, and it doesn’t get better from there. If you want to learn from the book (and there’s learning to be had from it), download 0.96.x, and use that to go through the book. When you’re done with the book, read the release notes for Django 1.0. You’ll have to make some alterations before moving your apps to 1.0, but overall you’ll be just fine.

To PyWorks Speakers and Attendees

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I’ve gotten several emails over the past couple of days about meeting up at PyWorks. This is reasonable, since I was the main engine initiating contact with prospective speakers back in the June-August timeframe. However, much to my disappointment, I won’t be attending PyWorks this year.

The story is basically that, in September, the startup I was working for was bought out, and I was thrust into managing projects to migrate the various components of our infrastructure to their new home with the new company. I was also executing a good number of migration tasks myself. This is not to mention the meetings and phone calls and long email threads, all while still maintaining the production site on a day-to-day basis, which is no small challenge.

Life just became a little nightmarish there for a while, and for the good of the conference and my sanity, I told Marco (Tabini, of MTA, who runs the conference, and Python Magazine, and php|architect… the list goes on) to turn over the conference organizer responsibilities to someone who could commit themselves fully to the tasks at hand.

So, I won’t be there. I’m not happy about it, but in the end it was better to turn over the conference than to destroy it altogether.

I’ll see you next year, and I guess there’s still a small chance I’ll make it to PyCon. I expect things to be settled before then.


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'al-Qaeda' Was In Fact A Database

based on a report by Kurt Nimmo. November 19, 2005

“al-Qaeda” never existed in the form now claimed by the Bushites and the corporate media.

“al-Qaeda” was in fact a database of CIA-recruited and -trained mujahideen and an email address connected to that database.

Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with that database and thus all references in the corporate media claiming he is the leader of “al-Qaeda” are false.

Terrorists falsely attributed to “al-Qaeda” were organized by the U.S. military and NATO and financed by a CIA front bank in Washington and unleashed in Bosnia.

The CIA front bank later shared a connection with prominent Saudi Arabians who are suspected of financing the 9/11 hijackers.

All of this information was predictably discarded by the 9/11 whitewash commission.

Of course, none of this arcane information means squat to the American people, many whom believe Osama teamed up with Saddam to pull of nine eleven and “al-Qaeda” is a real terrorist organization run by the elusive “devils” Bin Laden and his murderous cohort, al-Zarqawi.

In fact, the official story is so embedded in the American psyche, thanks to the relentless efforts of the corporate media, it may never be possible for the truth to emerge.

You have been reading excerpts from "Al-Qaeda the Database Unbound" by Kurt Nimmo. You can read the entire piece here: kurtnimmo.com/?p=131. Thanks to kurtnimmo.com. We visit often and we hope you will too.

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It Is The War Which Disgraces America

excerpts from a column by Bob Harris. November 29, 2005

To those who repeat the current GOP spin that opponents of the war are motivated by a hatred of Bush or a desire to see America disgraced, I would like to respond:

I can speak for no one else, but it seems obvious to me that it is the war which disgraces America. It is the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people which disgraces America. It is torture which disgraces America. It is imprisonment without trial which disgraces America. It is the use of chemical weapons which disgraces America. It is disdain for international law, the use of military power as a first resort, the intentional confusion of the Iraqi people with terrorists thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, and the corruption of the very word "democracy" which all disgrace America.

As an opponent of the war, I am trying to stop my country from being disgraced any further.

As to hatred, yes, I will confess: I hate the actions of everyone involved -- including Bush and his entire team, who are obviously most responsible, but also including plenty of Democrats (Biden, Lieberman, Clinton, etc.) -- in creating the current fiasco.

I would also eagerly forgive anyone able to admit that what they have done is wrong. I forgive John Murtha. I forgive Walter Jones. I forgive John Edwards. Forgiveness is, after all, one of the most important things we can offer.

I could be wrong, but I also believe the majority of humanity would agree.

You have been reading excerpts from "'Death squads' in the Iraqi police" by Bob Harris. You can read the entire piece here: tinyurl.com/9mrtu. Thanks to Bob Harris. We visit bobharris.com often and we hope you will too.

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