A.B.H (anybody but Hillary) rhetoric already underway.

OneNewsNow.com has Gary Bauer saying, “So I hope that we can, as a movement, be very wise about this, and not savage candidates that we may very well have to support in 2008 if they’re running against Hillary Clinton.”

Let me be clear.  I am done with the lesser of two evils garbage.  I have been for a long time. I didn’t vote for Bush either time because of it.  Oh I know.. then I’m “throwing my vote away” by not voting for someone who can actually win. Right (sarcasm). I’d say it’s the opposite that is true.  Voting for someone you don’t think is the best person for the job is throwing your vote away.

Frankly, I’m surprised and a little disappointed to see Gary Baurer with the GOP kool-aid mustache.

Goodbye Bill Gates

First, before I say anything, let me say it’s ultimately my fault for not having better backups of my data (yeah, it’s been 9 months).  Secondly it’s my fault for not having better backups.  Had I had current backups we all know Vista (Yeah, I know – I know – Believe me – I know) would have never gone belly up on me.

Oh Don’t feel too bad, Bill.  I’m still gonna visit from time to time (only because Dreamweaver makes me (for now). Quickbooks just made the switch easier for us.

Yesterday, I finally reinstalled Vista and my next step is to partition the hard drive (oh and <sarcasm class=”extreme”>thanks for changing how that was done too</sarcasm>) and then create a dual-boot with Linux (Ubuntu) as my primary OS.

More on that as the days go along.

And if you are curious as to what caused the crash all I was doing was trying to clear some disk space. Vista’s shadow copies were taking up 10 Gigs of space on my hard drive (minimal space they say, right)! I rebooted and :p she was gone.

I was able with a Helix/Linux boot disk to recover many of the files I needed.  But it was so time consuming that it wasn’t worth much of the effort.  Did I mention I am a fool for not taking the time to back up my data in the first place?

Please don’t help me row my ship of fools.  Get off and make a back up of anything you deem mission critical today.

BTW: If you are reading this because you fried your hard drive and didn’t make backups, let me know and I’ll be happy to help as much as I can.

Not So Fast » This guy’s awesome

Kristin of “Not So Fast” fame had a great link to whyfirefoxisblocked.com where you’ll find a longer-than-need-be rant about how firefox is blocking ads (Anyone else just hear Tony’s voice in their head say “and this is bad.. because?”). Doesn’t he realize his little tirade is just as likely to convert more MSIE users to the firefox side? I guess he doesn’t.

Furthermore, I don’t mind a site having ads on it – and I’ll even click on them if they interest me (not all marketing is evil) but I am reminded of a quote from the Wizard, Roy Williams:

You’re going to need a day job until folks figure out how good you are. Experience &#8212 deep and wide &#8212 is essential. If you work really hard and are lucky it’ll still be at least 2 years before you begin to gain some traction. Be committed. Don’t worry; just keep getting better. The kings will find you.

Read the rant for yourself, then come please back and let me know your thoughts about whyfirefoxisblocked.com, ads on websites and your favorite browser (I’m part of the firefox cult, btw).

 

Maid jailed for serving urine to boss

Reuters reports from Hong Kong that an Indonesian maid has been jailed for six days in Hong Kong for serving her boss a cup of water containing urine, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

The 29-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of “administering poison or other destructive or noxious substance with intent to injure,” but insisted she had used the urine to treat a skin condition and its appearance in her employers cup was….  a mistake.

Whoops.   I was waiting for her to say, “It was a mistake, besides.. he’s a jerk.”

More here (oh, and it gets stranger).