- So I was sitting around on Monday, trying to set up my PC laptop so it would dual-boot XP and OpenBSD (which went about the way I expected: I’ve accidentally wiped XP, and can only boot OpenBSD on it), when suddenly I heard a pop and then a hissing sound from my trike. I hadn’t ridden it since last Friday, and for some reason the front left tire suddenly popped and went flat. Blegh. Now I have to remember how to change a tire before I can go for a ride again.
- They’re installing cameras everywhere in downtown Minneapolis. Since Target Corp is paying for it and that’s called
charity
(perhaps the strangest use of that word I’ve ever seen). Go to Skyway News Online for the complete story. [jim] - Military waste under fire / trillion missing -- Bush plan targets Pentagon accounting. They lost a trillion!? And 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. How do you lose 32 tanks? Or 56 airplanes? Or a trillion dollars? Sheesh. And people wonder why I think we shouldn’t give the government so much money.
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