Recently in Intention Category

Well, it seems I was right about the Augusta Ballet Company. I have it through the grapevine that the Augusta Ballet Board has voted itself a presenting company only. This only formalizes what I’ve suspected since the ‘reorganization’ several years ago. I can’t find a link in the Chronicle, or other local news outlets because, I’m certain, the board would prefer to have this decision be somewhat quiet.

Supporting Ballet is so much easier without those costly dancers and artsy fartsy types living, working, and paying taxes in the community.

I wrote a fairly pithy letter to the editor at the Metro Spirit. Recently, the 'Augusta Ballet', announced a party celebrating the retirement of their debt. The first sentence uses the weak construction, 'Some people say...' without telling us who are 'some people'. This is a celebration of what exactly? Below is my letter:

balletdebt.pdf

Tess had a little inspiration this morning:

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My heart is full and pray President Obama uses his mandate well. I'm not sure I could be any more proud to be an American.

I just saw this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7472722.stm

I understand that they have a relatively small geographic area; ‘slightly smaller than Maine.’ and they have lots of money. Still, one marvels at their use of space. Their policy on crumbs found on airline customers aside (it’s a big aside, I know), one is curious how it is that we can’, in our infinite wisdom, afford similar efforts of engineering.

My theory on this is probably population density and relative ethnic, tribal hegemony. I'm guessing that the more populous, hegemonous, and dense is a population, the easier it is to get things done. It's too bad that we cannot somehow formulate some sort of national identity. I'm not talking about patriotism as much as self identifying as an American. After 911, there were AdCouncil ads with people of various backgrounds saying, ‘I am an American.’ I wish we could somehow get back to that idea.

So, Tam and I have volunteered to be evil for The Pillowman at Le Chat Noir. I'm looking forward to it; especially since I don't have to talk. I'd like to do more acting if it weren't for the whole talking thing. I just finished reading the play. I would have to say that it is dark. So dark in fact, that I believe this should be the theme song.

So, I installed Ubuntu Server 8 today on an aged Dell that's been sitting around. The installation was as easy as falling off a log. Really. It was straightforward and apt-get is stupid easy. I did this because I needed a development platform for this Drupal book I'm working through. I started to put it on my Macs; but, getting GD to play nice with Leopard has proven a pain. All of the workarounds I've seen are for Leopard Server.

I'm hoping to deploy Drupal for Augusta West's (here is the old one) new website. I'll have to be patient with myself as I learn this stuff. At least I'm having fun learning something new.

I'm watching this:
Real Audio Link
The first speaker after the chair was Representative Cliff Stearns. He goes on and on and is wrong, wrong, wrong. Guess who's paying his way in DC?
Here comes Fred Upton. Guess where his money comes from?
Here is Mike Ferguson His top donors?
His argument is that piracy, read bit-torrent traffic devastates the internet; and yet, check this out.
John Shimkus?
From what I hear so far, it's a three hour hearing, these shills for the telcos are full of it. They want content creators to pay for the privilege of residing on their networks. It's the same as saying that only Lamborghini's will be allowed to drive on surface streets. That's great if you can afford a Gallardo; unfortunately, that's going to make we mere mortals unable to play. This is how the ISP's want it. I think the chairman of the hearing has it right on the money that there are so many red herrings in this debate you could fill an aquarium.
Please write your representative and tell them to support network neutrality

 
Here is another place, saying it better than I can…

Another success for DD-WRT! I just revived my cousin's old v2. I had to flash it twice, once with the mini to get passed the usual Linksys crap, and then up to the full v23 with dd-wrt. Fun. Now what to do with it? I haven't quite decided yet. I've got an Airport Express that does pretty well on one side of the house; so I guess I'll put this one in the wire closet for the back yard. That is, unless I give my cousin back his now working router, even though he was going to throw his away. Oh well. I have a Buffalo router that needs the dd-wrt treatment in case I do the right thing.