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Farwell Hard Drive you shall be missed
You brought me much joy even though you were a disk
You were so good at file storing and retrieving
But now your death leaves me grieving
Through install after install you were always so speedy
And now I must lay you down to rest in eternal Hard Drive Glory

RIP WD120

Congrats Ian and Dennise and welcome Ema Beth!  May the Lord bless you and your family.

I’m a Mega Man holic.  It’s true.  I’ve been playing Mega Man since the game first came out and I love the series.  When Mega Man X came out on the Super Nintendo I fell in love.  It seems that Capcom has found yet another way to intise me, Mega Man X Collection.  That’s right, Mega Man X thru Mega Man X6 and Mega Man Battle and Chase (a racing game never released in the USA).  I haven’t gotten to play the game(s) yet but you can make a “sure fire” bet that I’ll be playing it tonight :)

As promised I’m writing a response to Nagin’s speech that he gave the other day. For those of you who don’t know who Nagin is, he is the mayor of New Orleans that called out in anger for the lack of response when they were hit by hurricane Katrina. While I agree that the federal government was slow in responding to hurricane Katrina I think its crap for people to assume the slow response was racial. As part of the rebuilding process for New Orleans Mayor Nagin gave a speech that was to some inflammatory.

As we think about rebuilding New Orleans surly God is mad at America. He’s sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane and its destroying and putting stress on this country. Surely he’s not approval of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We’re not taking care of ourselves. We’re not taking care of our women. And we’re not taking care of our children. When you have a community where 70% of its children are being born to one parent. We as black people. It’s time. It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don’t care what people are saying uptown or where ever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way, it wouldn’t be New Orleans.

Excuse me?! What in God’s name are you thinking? I thought you were giving a speech to encourage people to come back to the city. Instead you decide to insult the government, insult the African American community, and then insult any non African-American all around MLK Jr. Day! Good job. Rather than trying to pull everyone together (a la MLK Jr.) you divide the city and piss off the nation.

So let’s break this down some. The comments about Iraq really don’t have any place in this speech. The speech was supposed to be inviting people to come and help rebuild New Orleans so where does Iraq fit in? If the 70% statistic Nagin gave is true then yes that is an alarming statistic, one that ANY race, gender, nationality, etc, should be concerned with. I still don’t see how this is helping to get people to come back. “Hey everyone, we have a serious problem with family values. 70% of children born are born to one parent. Doesn’t that sound like a great place to come and raise your family.” Seriously, what are you thinking? The only person in the last couple of years to make a criticism and not get marked a racist was Bill Cosby. And then we come to “Chocolate”. Yes New Orleans was a predominant African-American city but to have the nerve to tell any non African-American we don’t want you here?! How can this country become united (MLK Jr.) if the leaders are dividing it?

Some of you reading will probably consider me a racist for saying what I’m about to say but it’s something that’s been bugging me for a while. STOP PLAYING THE RACE CARD!!! When the city was hit by Katrina the government response was horrible. “The city is 60-70% African-American so it must be race related right?” No, it’s not race related. It was horrible response. Let’s rebuild New Orleans everyone. Race Card. It’s going to be a “Chocolate” city and “I don’t care what people are saying uptown or where ever they are.” For the love of God stop playing the race card. Not everything is about race. Stop trying to make it race related. For those out there that think that Nagin’s comments were not inflammatory ask yourself this. If a white mayor said “We’re going to make this a marshmallow city” what would be response from that? Or how about a “Mexican”-American mayor saying “Chorizo” city? I could go on and on but I won’t. Stop playing the race card. It’s old, it’s annoying, and it makes everyone take a step back instead of a step forward.

I just heard about this little hack/feature on a podcast. Start up Pinball and when the game loads type “hidden test“. When you click and hold the left mouse buttom you can control where the ball goes. Check it out.

I heard about this on WOAI Radio down here in San Antonio. I have a long list of things to say about this but it’s late, I’m tired, and I’ve got to be up in 6 hours. I’ll post about this some more tomorrow.

I’ve had these for a while and I’ve been meaning to put them up. Pictures of a young Bill Gates posing for some magazine way back in the day.

I just downloaded Flock, a browser based off of the Mozilla engine. At first glance it runs just like FireFox but with a pretty GUI however there are a few things that make it stand out. The first thing that I noticed is that you can directly synchronize your favorites with del.icio.us and it has an integrated blog-it functionality. I still perfer FireFox but it’s a nice browser to play around with. Check it out just to see what they offer. Read more »

Believe it or not but I, until recently, have never seen American History X all the way through. I’ve seen parts of it when it was on TV and I knew of its background but I’ve just never seen it. Well, one of Stephanie’s co-workers let us borrow the movie and it’s everything I thought it would be. I will say to those that have never seen it, it’s rated R for a reason. Spoilers ahead.

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I have an IMAP server set up for my email and I was having some issues with it. While on my home desktop I tried to send an email but got a “Relay access denied” error. I could receive no problem but not send. So I’m Googling for the answer and just about all the hits I came across said the same thing. “Remove your account and then re-add it.” Now why in the world would I remove my account if I can receive messages?! Finally after playing around with my mail reader I found the setting that tells the client that the SMTP server requires credentials to send mail. I don’t know why I didn’t see this before! The moral of the story, if there is one, check your SMTP security settings before you delete you email account.