Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Haven't we heard this before?
Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror - New York Times
The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
I didn't know if I was going to write about this, or even if I should. But, there's a big deal in my house today, and it's a story I need to tell.
My daughter turns 18 today. Parents and children reach that milestone every day. Our experience with parenthood has ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
I love this ...
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Last night in the locker room after we lost in overtime to the heat. I was asked by reporters to answer some questions. I told them i would if they asked good questions and didnt ask the same cliche’d questions they had asked ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
I listened to the ESPN Radio podcast this morning, including a clip from yesterday's "Mike and Mike" show. The clip was an interview with the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowhers. I was already quietly impressed with how the organization handled the Ben Roethlisberger accident. At the end of the ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
It's officially hard drive week at the Steidler-Dennison household.
I replaced a dead old 40 GB drive in my main Ubunutu machine on Saturday. I swapped 40 GB for 160, bringing the total storage on the machine to 400 GB. That's important, because it shares drives via NFS with the other ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Everyone's provisional frontrunner for the '08 Democratic presidential nomination ran into a little trouble yesterday.
USATODAY.com - Activists jeer Clinton over Iraq stance
Anti-war activists in the "Take Back America" crowd booed Clinton for opposing a withdrawal date for U.S. troops, an approach pushed by Kerry and cheered by the crowd.
"Sometimes this ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Following right along with a government that seems to follow no standard practices:
USATODAY.com - FEMA lost $1B to fraud, errors
Millions more was sent to more than 1,000 people who used names and Social Security numbers of inmates in prisons along the Gulf Coast and across the country. In one case, ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
CamWorld Turns Nine
Just a quick note to mark this site's 9th birthday. I do not know if I will ever return to blogging on a more regular basis. So many other things are happening in my life right now that blogging has had to take a back seat. I still ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
These are the people charged with keeping us safe.
Homeland Security accepts fake ID
(CNN) -- A man using a fake identification card was able to enter the Homeland Security Department headquarters in Washington, he said, even though the United States government considers the type of Mexican-issued card he used invalid.
Homeland Security ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
This is a bit surprising from a conservative court.
Justices Open Door to Lethal Injection Challenges [NY Times, free subscription req]
WASHINGTON, June 12 — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that condemned prisoners can challenge the humaneness of the lethal blend of chemicals that are to be used to execute them.
I've ...
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