Bob Morris @ Feb 20th 2004 12:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sounds like Ralph is running
From a Nader listserv
Watch Ralph Nader announce his decision on the 2004 presidential race this Sunday morning, February 22, on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Can’t imagine he’d go to the trouble of appearing on Meet The Press and notifying his listserv in advance if he wasn’t going to announce he will run.
Bob Morris @ Feb 20th 2004 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Getting married in SF
Wow. What better “defense” of gay marriage could there be than these wonderfully moving photos of lesbian and gay couples getting married in San Francisco.
And - San Francisco sues California over ban on gay marriage!
San Francisco went on the legal offensive Thursday, suing the state to overturn laws that stipulate marriage must be between a man and a woman.
The city’s action almost ensures the legal battle over same-sex marriage eventually will reach the California Supreme Court, which has been the city’s goal since it began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples eight days ago.
But there’s more!
Daley backs marriage for gays in Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley says he will have “no problem” with Cook County’s issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But the possibility is not immediately in sight.
Mr. Daley, in response to a journalist’s question on Wednesday, went on to defend gay and lesbian couples from accusations that they were trying to undermine marriage.
What’s happening now in SF is an earthquake, and the tremors are being felt everywhere.
Bob Morris @ Feb 20th 2004 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
Grocery strike: Negotiations into ninth day
Negotiators in the supermarket strike talks spent more than eight hours at the bargaining table Wednesday and will meet again today, swelling hopes on the picket lines.
With pressure to settle mounting on both sides, the talks — heading into their ninth straight day — were described by people close to negotiators as the most serious since the strike began four months ago
Some weeks back, management walked out of the talks after about an hour. Now they’ve been talking hard for days. Maybe, just maybe, an agreement is near.
Meanwhile, back on the picket lines:
Rallies at Southern California markets end in arrests
More than 40 people were arrested Thursday during supermarket rallies in support of grocery clerks idled by a four-month strike and lockout.
The granddaughter of late farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez, state Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, and an 86-year-old member of the Gray Panthers activist group were among those arrested during civil disobedience rallies.
(Thanks for the photos, Preston!)
Bob Morris @ Feb 20th 2004 00:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
Aaargh
A few days back I mentioned how computer programming errors, which can be maddeningly difficult to solve, are often due to something completely obvious staring you in the face. Yet you never see it until, well, you see it. Instead you engage in much gnashing of teeth and burrowing through the code until, oh, you realize you did something air-headed. At least that’s been my experience - and that of other programmers too.
I just did this with hardware. My main PC had been acting oddly. When it rebooted, it would lose connection to the net. So, I’d unplug the router and modem, wait for modem to recycle, reboot, and was back on the net. Most odd.
Yesterday I got a new computer, tested it there, it went on the net fine. Plugged it in at home, and - no internet. Even more bizarre, it could find the router, but the other PC, which could access the net, couldn’t find the router.
This led to much gnashing of teeth, and calling friends knowledgeable about networks and routers. No one had a clue. Called the router tech support. The first tech, after trying lots of things, hadn’t a clue either, and bounced me up a level.
After 15 minutes, the senior tech almost in passing said, so the modem cable is plugged into the wan port on the router, right? And I looked at the router and started laughing because, Lordy, while moving equipment around a while back, I’d accidentally plugged the modem cable into the wrong port on the router.
And when I explained this to him, he was laughing too.
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