Solution to the energy crisis?
Bob Morris @ Apr 14th 2007 13:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
Well, we would need several million of them, but still…
Archive for April 14th, 2007
Underwater turbines for the East River
Bob Morris @ Apr 14th 2007 10:12 - Category: Renewable energy ;
Six giant turbines are being placed underwater in the East River around New York City. They will use the strong tidal surge to produce power. One has already been installed and is supplying power to nearby businesses.
The turbines were developed by Verdant Power, who are looking at installing these low-impact, sustainable energy devices worldwide.
On absence
Bob Morris @ Apr 14th 2007 00:23 - Category: Anti-war ;
Sue was gone on business for a week and returned Thursday. We’ve been married two years, this was the first time we’d been apart that long, and I missed her a lot.
Imagine what it must be like for newlyweds in the Armed Forces and Reserves when a spouse gets shipped to Iraq for a year. Not only is it a long separation, it’s dangerous over there, with the real chance the spouse could come back maimed, in a body bag, or waking at night screaming in terror from nightmares.
For reservists, they may lose their home or car, as the microscopic pay they get won’t hardly make the mortgage or rent. Maxed Out talks about this, and about how US soldiers often have huge amounts of credit card debt, much more than the citizenry at large. That’s because they can’t make it on what they’re paid.
Spousal abuse increases when a spouse comes back from a war zone. Often, who comes back isn’t the person who left. They’re colder, tenser, more violent.
No one ever really recovers from war. And now the Bushies are sending ever increasing numbers to Iraq to stay there even longer, more cannon fodder from their insane wars.
“Just another poor boy / off to fight a rich man’s war” –Steve Earle
Spam comments
Bob Morris @ Apr 14th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Polizeros has been getting about 1,000 spam comments a day of late, and while you never see them because Akismet traps them first, they are a nuisance, as well as putting an extra load on the server.
Virtually all of them get posted by spambots to old posts. Right, like someone is going to read a three year old post here and respond to the spambot’s offer to make their mortgage bigger or manhood smaller (or whatever it is their confused little brains are trying to sell.) But such spam comments happen all the time, about 1,000 times a day here.
So, I just installed another WordPress plugin, the highly useful comment timeout from James McKay. This automatically turns off comments made to any post before a predetermined date, thus killing most spambot attempts. So far, it’s working quite well, spam is now down to 40 per day rather than 40 per hour.
