select a candidate (2008) quiz – alan’s results:

<td> <a href="http://www.dennis4president.com/" target="_blank"><b>Dennis Kucinich</b></a><br />Score: 43 </td> <td> <b>Agree</b><br />Iraq<br />Taxes<br />Stem-Cell Research<br />Health Care<br />Abortion<br />Social Security<br />Line-Item Veto<br />Energy<br />Marriage </td> <td> <b>Disagree</b><br />Immigration<br />Death Penalty </td> <td> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.barackobama.com/"><b>Barack Obama</b></a><br />Score: 42<br /><a href="javascript:playVideo('1748087', 'Interview%20with%20Barack%20Obama', 'v', 'Political%20-%20Democrat', '389500', 'Political', '', 'www.WQAD.com');">Video</a> </td> <td> <b>Agree</b><br />Immigration<br />Taxes<br />Stem-Cell Research<br />Health Care<br />Abortion<br />Social Security<br />Line-Item Veto<br />Energy<br />Marriage<br />Death Penalty </td> <td> <b>Disagree</b><br />Iraq </td> </tr> <p> <tr valign="top"> <td> <img src="http://web.
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Loose Change – again – 911 and American wars

If you’re tired of propaganda; tired of conspiracy theorists telling you that your media is mostly brainwashing you into the party line of big brother… Wake up. There is a lot of conspiracy theory which must be wrong. It’s nuts… so you choose not to belive it. You don’t accept things at face value. You look for evidence to refute crazy stories. Good. Do so. But do so, also, to the “official story”.
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Cloth Diapers for Penelope

Thanks to Anita doing research (and generally being excited in all things baby’ish) we have a more solid conviction to cloth diapers. http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/joy-of-cloth.html – good article on pros and cons http://www.greenmountaindiapers.com/newmom.htm – good pictures and helpful info on how to use and chose which type And in case you haven’t heard or picked up on it… we have pretty much decided on the name “Penelope” after finding out that it was going to be a girl at yesterday’s ultrasound.
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Karl Rove’s Father’s Secret…

A Little Bit of History [BME Guest Column] And now I wondered if that son ever cried for the man who raised him and watched him grow up? I’d be curious as to how Karl Rove would ever explain his pierced, gay father? He never told the people in Louis’ phone book that he had died, nor invited them to a service if there was one. No one even knows where he is buried.
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Ultrasound images, healthy development

Here are the ultrasounds from Anita’s Dr. visits. Poor quality images all, as they are on some kind of heat-transfer paper they don’t last, especially not in the heat. That said – they weren’t good quality images in the first place. They are neat images though.amazing to see it grow from a bean to a vertebrate in a fairly short period of time. Fingers and toes… brain and legs. All looks healthy.
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Firebug is the best tool for AJAX web developers

Firebug is a fantastic Firefox Add-On which allows realtime viewing and editing of a page’s DOM, CSS, etc. as well as net usage reports, and even JS timing and profiling. If you work on the web, it’s well worth your time to familiarize yourself with this tool. Here’s a video presentation: YUI Theater: Joe Hewitt, Welcome to Firebug 1.0 » Yahoo! User Interface Blog – summary
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Petition to save Internet Radio

Petition to save Internet Radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetr I’ve been reading up on copyright laws in America and internationally and it seems blatantly obvious that the extra costs and constraints put on internet radio are one symptom of a larger problem… that our copyright system is outmoded by the technologies of the past 20 years. That’s a larger problem for another day {read “Free Culture” for more information}.For now… lets look at Internet Radio.
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recreating the RAID array

So, due to a degraded HDD in my RAID5 array, I decided to build a new array. I bought 4 320G Seagate drives… those drives have many benifits, not least of which, a 5 year warranty. I already have a 3ware escalade RAID controller (7506-4LP), one of the best options for a hardware RAID controller. Instead of building another RAID5, I chose to build 2, RAID1 arrays. I chose this because it’s much easier to buy 2 hard drives (upgrading one mirrored pair) than to buy 4 hard drives (to upgrade a 4 disk array).
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3DM2 (3ware raid management tool) on Ubuntu

Ran into a problem installing the 3DM2 (3ware raid management tool) on Ubuntu today. Got an “” error when trying to run the install script. After a bit of debugging, I figured out that the failing variable was in the “check architecture” section of the script… In my case, I simply stripped out the logic and put in the following text to just set variables to my specific setup: After that it worked fine… but once installed, the service wouldn’t start… due to the following error “Failed to create SSL context”.
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