Day October 23, 2004

Greg Shaw pioneered indie rock labels back when no one thought it could be done. He died this week at 55. The LA Times has a comprehensive obit. “He was an extraordinarily important individual in the history of rock ‘n’ roll,”…

More than 800 former soldiers have failed to comply with Army orders to get back in uniform and report for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Army said Friday. That is more than a third of the total who were…

The computers have been moved and the wireless network installed. 128 bit encryption with MAC addressing! Translation: You ain’t breaking into this net, no how, no way. I’m using the highly rated LinkSys Wireless-G with Speedbooster. The installation is easy…

Hopefully, I’ll just be down for a few hours as I transfer the computers and set up the new wireless net!

A recent little-noticed Russian thumbs-up to the Kyoto Protocol is destined to give Moscow a major leap forward in the global economy. This, of course, leaves only a few backward, arrogant countries primarily the US, who have refused to ratify…