We rented Moulin Rouge last night, our first time seeing it. What a sensory treat! I really enjoyed the performance of Jim Broadbent. He's been in a couple of other fun movies recently: Bridget Jones' Diary (Dad) and Topsy Turvy (Gilbert). But you might also remember him from Time Bandits, Brazil, The Crying Game, Little Voice, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Erik the Viking, and others. Mr. Broadbent doesn't usually get the most glamorous role, but he always plays it with a manic gusto.
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It's the end of another era today. After not much luck in trying to sell a 13+ year old truck we are donating it to charity at www.donateacar.com.I bought the truck brand new while at an FAA training class in Oklahoma City, OK back in 1988. The OK economy was anything but ok at the time and the running joke was: What's the difference between an Oklahoma oil man and a pidgeon? The pidgeon can leave a deposit on a cadillac.
Goodbye old friend...
If you're reading this, then somehow you've found my new domain hangout. I'm switching from sover.net to oneononeinternet.com, mostly because the new one is so easy to type (right...). Actually mostly because the new one provides 20x the storage space, up to 50 email accounts (not that I need them), shell access (how hard is that??), access to server log files, the latest versions of all my favs (php, mysql, perl, apache, etc...), and seems to have pretty impressive plumbing into the internet. Mostly it's nice to have shell access to do things like cron jobs, procmail, and use a command line again. I've been a loyal sover.net dude for over a half dozen years, primarily using them as a dial-in ISP. But now that I have starband satellite internet access I don't need a dialup ISP and sover.net's web hosting offerings are rather antiquated and expensive.
If you are trying to stop the burglar before he crawls in the window, then tools like Snort & Dragon might help the cause. Too bad there isn't the rottweiler or doberman equivalent in the computer world. It would be supremely satisfying to know that not only did you prevent your system from being hacked, but the dork on the other end left with a chunk of butt missing. Ditto with all of this spam I've been getting. I don't want to shuffle it into other folders or block it before it reaches my email program, I want the email to return-to-sender and they pay for return postage (metaphorically speaking). If a get-rich idiot spammer ends up having to shell out thousands of dollars and isn't making enough to offset the costs then their spam attempts will surely start abating.
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