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Week of January 29, 2006 to February 04, 2006It's always something smallSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 4, 2006 - 10:28pm.
on Culture wars | Race and Identity | Religion | War
You remember your last breakup, right? Didn't you put up with stuff, try your hardest, overlook so much...and while you're sitting there gritting your teeth some straw was just the last one.
Some of you lashed out. Some of you relaxed and said, oh that's the way it is... It's always something small. And what I don't understand is, everyone claims they're worshipping the same God so they should KNOW how folks are going to react. I mean, picture this: A cartoon. In the upper right hand corner, rays of light pierce a billowing cloud bank. In the lower left hand corner, a burning bush. In the center, a figure recognizable as Da Vinci's Jesus pissing on the burning bush. The caption: "I'll be right home, Dad...I just have to put out this fire!" You didn't think I'd let Black History Month pass entirely, did you?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 4, 2006 - 6:51pm.
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Civil Rights in America: Racial Desegregation in Public Accommodations, was put together by the National Park Service for review stuff for inclusion in the national Register of Historic Places. The lengthy pdf starts with an historical overview of the sorts of discrimination that took place and the sorts of places that discriminated. It ends with a list descriptions of significant locations, with the occasional high-quality photograph interspersed.
Nice home-schooling resources for Black folks. Check it out. You know you're curiousSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 4, 2006 - 5:46pm.
on Race and Identity  Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time. Just a reminderQuote of note: More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed Judge's Report Shows Cheney Aide Is Accused Of Broad Deception By Carol D. Leonnig This is getting to be quite disturbingSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 4, 2006 - 9:15am.
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And why should unearned income be taxed at a lower rate than earned income?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 4, 2006 - 8:35am.
on For the Democrats | Politics
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the cuts they want to extend the most — special low tax rates for investment income — overwhelmingly enrich the rich and will be even harder to justify in the years to come, when, by all reasonable estimates, the country's financial outlook will have deteriorated further. MetaprogrammingSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 4:31pm.
on Media | People of the Word | Politics
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The ad, which may air again during future "24" episodes broadcast in the home states of Republican senators who have raised questions about the Patriot Act, is an unusual example of an interest group so closely meshing political persuasion and fictional entertainment.Group airs ad during `24,' hoping to influence Patriot Act debate BY MIKE DORNING Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON - Jack Bauer, the fictional counter-terrorism agent on the Fox Network's popular "24" show, hasn't actually waded into the debate on civil liberties versus terrorism surveillance as Congress considers making changes in the USA Patriot Act. Let's see how deep into the Greek alphabet we get this yearSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 12:25pm.
on The Environment And hey...why not see if anyone in the Bush regime learned anything. La Niña warms winter, bodes ill for hurricanes A new La Niña, a cooling of the ocean surface that can have global consequences — from the promise of a warmer, drier spring in Georgia to a new wild card in what forecasters already expect will be a hyperactive hurricane season — has emerged in the Pacific, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday. Past cooling episodes in the same area of the central Pacific have been linked to increases in the number and intensity of hurricanes, but climate experts say it's too early to tell what role this La Niña will play in the 2006 hurricane season, already expected to be more active. They'll just appeal until they get to Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and AlitoSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 12:05pm.
on Culture wars | Justice By DAVID KLEPPER
The Star’s Topeka correspondent
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court today ordered a district judge to reconsider subpoenas issued at Attorney General Phill Kline’s request for abortion clinic medical records. The unanimous ruling orders Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson to use tightly drawn restrictions on any requests for medical records. That means Kline’s investigation of late-term abortion and sexual predators may go forward, but only if the court’s demands are met to keep the privacy of clinic patients. The ruling, awaited for nearly a year, was released about 9:30 a.m. today.
Kline is seeking the complete medical records of 90 girls and women who received abortions at two Kansas abortion clinics. He said the records — containing the sexual, mental and physical health histories of patients — are vital to investigating illegal late term abortions and child predators. All this Republican corruption has me thinking
The common excuse for the corruption is the cost of campaigning, specifically television ads.The obvious answer: public financing of political campaigns.
But how? Actually, I think we have a model: C-Span. I propose two new channels, supported by cable networks as C-Span is.
I'm Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 6:57am.
on News Gun-toting motorists more prone to road rage GUN lobbyists like to repeat the quote often attributed to American writer Robert Heinlein, that "an armed society is a polite society". But this is certainly not true for motorists. A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that motorists who carry guns in their cars are far more likely to indulge in road rage - driving aggressively or making obscene gestures - than motorists without guns. Some 23 per cent of gun-toting drivers admitted making rude signs, compared with 16 per cent of those who did not carry guns (Accident Analysis and Prevention, DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2005.12.014). Hilarious, in a grim sort of waySubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 6:50am.
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Let's see if he gets the death penaltySubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 6:43am.
on Justice | Race and Identity Quote of note:
Teenager Attacks Three Men at Gay Bar in Massachusetts Why is it I feel the U.N. is going the way of the League of Nations?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 6:19am.
on News Quote of note:
The Next 'S-G' Almost invisible to the general public, a major international election campaign is underway. It is the equivalent of primary time now, and candidates are flying quietly into New York, Washington, Beijing, Paris, Moscow and London, meeting with foreign ministers and other officials with little or no fanfare, and slipping out of town again, often denying they are running for anything at all. Although most Americans have not yet heard of any of the candidates, the winner will instantly become a major world figure. A Bush appointee retaliation against whistleblowers?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 3, 2006 - 5:23am.
on News NO. Really?
How much you wanna bet he has a job lined up with someone that wants to privatize launch operations? NASA's Inspector General Probed There's a link to the video at the L.A. TimesSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 9:28pm.
From the Los Angeles Times
By Matt Lait and Lance Pugmire
Times Staff Writers February 2, 2006 A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who shot a 21-year-old Air Force security officer in an incident captured by a video camera appears to have violated accepted police tactics and may have committed a criminal offense, experts in the use of force by police said Wednesday. The experts cautioned that the low quality of the digital recording may obscure some important evidence. But what is visible — the image of the deputy firing multiple rounds at 21-year-old Elio Carrion as he appeared to follow the deputy's order to get off the ground — was shocking, they said. No one expected a real policy statement anywaySubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 12:22pm.
on Economics
THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S CALL TO REDUCE MIDDLE EAST IMPORTS: On Tuesday, President Bush announced a "great goal": "to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." But that isn't as great as it sounds. Consider that foreign imports currently make up about 65 percent of our total oil consumption, but imports from the Middle East constitute just 17 percent of total imports, about 11 percent of total oil use. In other words, President Bush's goal amounts to reducing oil consumption by just 8.25 percent over 19 years.
Just a shout-outSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 11:56am.
on Seen online
That Colored Fella is all old and crotchety.
You defend your policiy with the argument you have, not the argument you'd like to haveSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 10:40am.
on Impeachable offenses
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President Bush is not giving up the battle over domestic spying. He's fighting it with an army of straw men and a fleet of red herrings. In his State of the Union address and in a follow-up speech in Nashville yesterday, Mr. Bush threw out a dizzying array of misleading analogies, propaganda slogans and false choices: Congress authorized the president to spy on Americans and knew all about it ... 9/11 could have been prevented by warrantless spying ... you can't fight terrorism and also obey the law ... and Democrats are not just soft on national defense, they actually don't want to beat Al Qaeda. Ooooh, harshSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 10:21am.
on Politics
Powell is America's nowhere man
By Fred Kaplan Special to the Los Angeles Times It's been one year since Colin L. Powell left high office. Where did he go? So sad, even tragic, is the tale of this man's evaporation. Once, he might have made a serious run for president, under either party's banner. Just a few years ago, he ranked among the most-admired Americans: a proud Jamaican immigrant who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, rose through the Army's ranks to general, then to White House assistant, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and finally the first black secretary of State. It was from this pinnacle that he crashed and burned. Outmaneuvered at every turn by the tag team of Cheney & Rumsfeld, shut out of policy on the major issues of the day, bamboozled by false intelligence on Iraq and ordered to link his credibility to the public case for a war he didn't believe in, Powell left office in tatters after George W. Check and balance THIS, muhfugga!Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 9:21am.
on Impeachable offenses
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Did you read that thing? If that's it, the program is illegal as hell. By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush's domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said Wednesday. Oh, stop itSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2006 - 9:04am.
on Supreme Court
All he did was not allow Missouri to bypass the appeals court. And we do not appreciate the blatant distortion.
In First Case, Alito Leans Left New Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. split with the court's conservatives last night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. ShannikaSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 7:53pm.
During my recent blunder I lost your email address. Could you hit the contact form or re-register?
Let's go reaching backSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 1:39pm.
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By LiveScience StaffOver a span of nearly 400 years, as many as 12 million people were placed in bondage and brought across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to work, primarily, in the mines and plantations of the New World, Price and his colleagues said.Skeletons Discovered: First African Slaves in New World posted: 31 January 2006 12:26 pm ET Archaeologists have found what they think are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas. See? That wasn't so hard, was it?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 1:16pm.
on Justice On the whole, librarians rock.
FBI Agents Back Down When Librarian Refuses to Let Them Seize 30 Computers Without a Warrant A Question of InfluenceSubmitted by Temple3 on February 1, 2006 - 12:44pm.
Pardon my lack of introspection on the question, but here it is. Canada is the leading exporter of petro to the US but appears to wield none of the political influence of nations like Saudi Arabia. What are some of the geo-political and historical factors informing this apparent disparity? Thanks.
Black Intrapolitics: I am in basic agreement with Eugene RobinsonSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 10:28am.
on Race and Identity
...who is is missing Mrs. King, but also the unity of purpose of the of the mid-20th century Civil Rights movement.
What do I think? Well, I was going to write it up here but I decided it would make a good second (second ? yup.) post at Intrapolitics.org. Y'all who expressed interest should register over there so I can give you posting privileges. Right now, just think of it as blogging until I get some other stuff going. Actually, right now the Supreme Court is pretty representative of the American politySubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 10:19am.
on Supreme Court
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"We changed from a court split 4 to 3, with two in the middle," said Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, referring to the dual swing votes of Justices O'Connor and Kennedy. "Now it's 4-1-4, and now it's Kennedy."Alito Vote May Be Decisive in Marquee Cases This Term By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will have only one vote, of course, but it may be the decisive one in several of the marquee cases that will dominate the balance of the Supreme Court's term. The N.A.A.C.P. is being practicalSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on February 1, 2006 - 9:12am.
on Education | Race and Identity
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N.A.A.C.P. Is Bush Ally in Connecticut School Case By AVI SALZMAN NEW HAVEN, Jan. 31 — N.A.A.C.P. officials said on Tuesday that they were trying to intervene in a lawsuit over the No Child Left Behind Law on the side of the Bush administration and against the State of Connecticut because of a core principle: that states do not have the right to ignore federal legislation that aims to help minorities. Member of racist organization confirmed for Supreme CourtSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 1:59pm.
on Supreme Court
Alito Is Sworn In as Justice After 58-42 Vote to Confirm Him
By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 —Samuel A. Alito Jr., who has been widely praised for his intellect and integrity but both admired and assailed for his conservative judicial philosophy, was sworn in today as the 110th justice in the history of the Supreme Court. The ceremony, at the Supreme Court, came shortly after Justice Alito was confirmed by a sharply divided Senate, which voted 58 to 42, largely along party lines. The vote gave President Bush a political triumph just hours ahead of his televised State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Maybe they should just shoot poor peopleSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 1:52pm.
on Culture wars | Economics Quote of note: Welfare policy is only one of many flashpoints in the bill, which reduces federal spending — primarily in social programs — by about $40 billion over the next five years. The higher education community is up in arms over changes in student loan programs, which account for $12.7 billion of the spending reductions. Cuts from Medicaid benefits, estimated at $7 billion, also are coming under fire. Bill Tightens Rules for 2-Parent Welfare Families WASHINGTON — The wide-ranging spending-cut bill scheduled for a final House vote on Wednesday includes provisions toughening welfare regulations, including work requirements on two-parent welfare families that experts say is almost impossible to meet. Congressmen should be reading Glen Greenwood instead of modifying WikipediaSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 1:03pm.
on Impeachable offenses
re: the upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on domestic spying
I believe we should not leave it up to the members of the Judiciary Committee -- again -- to decide for themselves which questions will be asked. We should try to play an active role in demanding that the Attorney General be held accountable and that the real questions raised by this scandal be meaningfully explored. Towards that end, I have created a preliminary list of what I believe are the ten most significant and pressing questions (although I admittedly cheated with the number of questions by employing a standard lawyer trick of packing in sub-parts to the questions, but at least I openly acknowledge my treachery). I hope anyone who has additions, revisions, changes or other ideas will add them over the next couple of days so that we can have a comprehensive list of the questions that ought to be asked and how those issues ought to be pursued, and then urge the Judiciary Committee to pursue them. For the sake of manageability, I have divided the 10 questions into the following two posts -- first, questions 1-5, then questions 6-10. Judiciary Committee Chair Arlen Specter last week sent a list of fifteen questions to Attorney General Gonzales. Many of those are obvious questions and I constructed my list so as to not overlap with Specter’s list. Please leave any comments on this post, not the other two. I believe the paramount objective with these hearings is to force out into the open the theories of Presidential power which the Administration has embraced in order to justify its transgressions of FISA -- not just as applied to eavesdropping but with respect to all decisions broadly relating to the question of how this country will respond to the threat of terrorism. Thus, the questions posed to Attorney General Gonzales should absolutely not be confined strictly to the question of the NSA eavesdropping program, but must explore how the Administration’s theories of its own power apply generally. An article worth two postsSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 12:43pm.
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Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases SURPRISE!Submitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 12:30pm.
on Politics | Race and Identity NOT:
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, January 30, 2006; Page A05
No one's opinion but mine should even be visibleSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 10:42am.
on Media | People of the Word | Politics Wikipedia had to block Congress from accessing the site! Statement of the dispute This RFC is being opened in order to further a centralized discussion concerning actions to be taken against US Congressional staffers and possibly other federal employees who have engaged in unethical and possibly libelous behavior in violation of Wikipedia policies (WP:NPOV, WP:CIV). The editors from these IP ranges have been rude, abrasive, immature, and show disregard for Wikipedia policy. The editors have frequently tried to censor the history of elected officials, often replacing community articles with censored biographies despite other users' attempts to dispute these violations. They also violate Wikipedia:Verifiability, by deleting verified reports, while adding flattering things about members of Congress that are unverified. About damn timeSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 9:51am.
on Education | Race and Identity By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — After nearly a century of political infighting and delay, the Smithsonian Institution on Monday selected a prominent space on the Mall near the Washington Monument as the site of its National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Supporters of the project, including many black cultural, political and academic leaders, who labored for years to have the museum approved, greeted the selection by the Board of Regents, the institution's governing body, with elation. Preparation for the State of the Union Address for non-wonks - on tax cutsSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 9:21am.
on Economics
via the NY Times:
What a shame
The one time I agree with John Tierney, he's behind the financial firewall.
Just Doing His Job After I wrote last year about Richard Paey, the wheelchair-bound patient who's been in physical agony for two decades, a lot of readers asked me what kind of monster could have prosecuted him for obtaining painkillers. If you watched "60 Minutes" Sunday, you could see for yourself. Mrs. Coretta Scott KingSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2006 - 8:12am.
on Race and Identity  A little later: Dr. Spence is still looking out...thanks to him you get an excellent profile and biography of Mrs. King. I needed to see not all Republicans are evilSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 7:11pm.
on Impeachable offenses Quote of note:
Palace Revolt Yet somehow this reduced level of service isn't expected to impact Big Pharma's profitability at allSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 7:01pm.
on Big Pharma | Health | Politics Quote of note:
I don't know whySubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 1:39pm.
on Open thread | Random rant ...but when I hear American politicians talk about "The American People" it hits the same nerve as when Marxists talk about "the masses." They had to leave the country to get a defenderSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:50am.
on Impeachable offenses
This one is from the free section of the New York Times. The opening paragraph is an example of the false "balance" Paul Krugman decries in the pay section. The title is significant because the author is a Brit (I am sooooo tempted to use xenophobe code words here, but I'll pass for the moment). England has been deep into public surveillance for years...so deep that this year they're implementing a system that will track the movements of every car in the country, in real time. More repercussions of my screw-upSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:31am.
on Tech If you registered here after December 23rd, 2005, I lost your registration. Clumsy...stupid. I'll be setting up a proper back-up routine for Intrapolotics.org as well a a better way to realize I'm overstressed than deleting a database. Yeah, you saw this before tooSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:28am.
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Alito's 'Didn't Inhale' Moment I'm a few years younger than Judge Samuel Alito and a graduate of a different Ivy League school, but I remember vividly the intense heat around the issue of turning those male bastions into diverse co-ed institutions. After graduation, I worked briefly as a fundraiser for Yale in Chicago, and I would not infrequently encounter the cold distain and disapproval of alums who had opposed the admission of women. Why hadn't I been a proper young lady and chosen Vassar instead, they wanted to know. These crusty old Blues tended to be equally aghast by the rising admission of black and minority students under the affirmative action programs then taking hold throughout the Ivy League. A view from "above" of the situation in HaitiSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:17am.
on Africa and the African Diaspora Didn't want to lose this one either. Quote of note:
Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos A view from the ground in HaitiSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:11am.
on Africa and the African Diaspora I didn't want to lose this one from Yesterday. Haiti: A coup regime, human rights abuses and the hidden hand of Washington Ben Terrall
Can we use them in political campaigns ans Supreme Court nominations?Submitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 9:05am.
on Tech Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time _ in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth. Wacky? Science fiction? It might happen this summer. Just the other day I lay flat on my back as a scanner probed the tiniest crevices of my brain and a computer screen asked, "Did you take the watch?" The lab I was visiting recently reported catching lies with 90 percent accuracy. And an entrepreneur in Massachusetts is hoping to commercialize the system in the coming months. Open Source PropagandaSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 8:57am.
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Who cares...we got calculatorsSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 8:33am.
on Education Now if only we can figure out what buttons to push... Quote of note:
Failing to teach them how to handle real life Okay, let's pretend yesterday never happennedSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2006 - 8:31am.
on Tech On discovering personal limitationsSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 29, 2006 - 6:56pm.
on Random rant I've actually destroyed a website of my own three times...once per year blogging, come to think of it... First time was my first paid-for-by-me web space. P6 started on Blogger then moved to space donated by someone who saw some potential in what I was doing. I bought my own web space so I could control email addresses and such. I was very unfamiliar with the tools and carelessly dicking around I deleted my entire web directory. One panicked phone call to tech support got the previous night's backup restored. Then there was the stupid deletion of the N-Net, to which the current incident bears an uncomfortable resemblance. Thinking back, there's a common factor to all three errors. Basically, I get into a real-world state that's both unpleasant and long-term enough that I lose focus and start looking for escape activities. Just random things. In this case I was going to reuse a test database when creating a new one was almost as fast...would have saved time, as it turns out. Jesus, I did it againSubmitted by Prometheus 6 on January 29, 2006 - 5:16pm.
on Tech Too much stress, obviously...Fortunately, I had a backup, unfortunately I forgot to do it last week, so about a month of P6 is dead...gone... I need a break. |
