The week is over-what have I done? The same as every other week. <sigh> Well, I’m spending a weekend in Cleveland next month, and Erika is spending a week in Fort Worth in June. So that breaks up things a bit.<\/br><\/p>\n
So, the journal sez: edited the SeaLight<\/a> Fri., went to a circle supper, our babysitter got her car towed, class, golf practice Sat., kite thing on Sun.-flew a demo, OWL<\/a>, the disk in my laptop died, and now it takes forever to boot. Working on graphics and 508 stuff, as usual. A UI review next week! Hopefully this will be the start of more.<\/br><\/p>\n Politics: They picked a new pope. Why is this in politics? Because the guy is hyper-conservative, and a former Nazi youth. Even if he didn’t like it, there is indoctrination there… The liberal Catholics aren’t liking this much, but they weren’t too happy with JPII too. We shall see-he’s 78, which makes this an interrregnum, and one that will probably look like JPII without the charisma. I give him 5-10 years, 15 max. Bush is still defending Bolton, and Powell and Voinovich have spoken up-this looks DOA. The Senate Reps are going to toss the nuclear option soon-but it looks like the moderate wing is going to be a bit squeamish-Frist only needs 5 votes to do it. It’s sick-and they want to get rid of judges by cutting off their money as well. It makes my blood boil-they want to do away with any semblance of checks and balances. The irony of it all is that a lot of the rulings they don’t like-Schiavo, for instance-are coming from conservative judges, Bush has a higher percentage of approved nominations than Clinton, if you count all judges-the Reps are limiting their counts to district and higher. The process is now highly politicized, both on the nomination and approval side. rrrrr.<\/br><\/p>\n Computers: more mergers-looks like consolidation. Interest rates are going to creep up as inflation does, gas is through the roof, the real estate bubble? Who knows-the problem is that the deficit looms-there’s a comic that talks about a guy coming out of a 20 year coma-the doc is telling him that Reps run things, and that the gov’t is bigger than ever with huge deficits, and that Clinton did all the things the Reps were talking about. Again, ironic, no? So, what did I pick up this week? MythTV<\/a>, maim<\/a>, google sdk<\/a>, deep green<\/a>, git<\/a>, subversion<\/a>, drupal<\/a>. My laptop’s hard disk died-replaced it, installed Win2K, now it doesn’t boot. The MIS guy said trash it and get another one. So I’m putting Fedora on it to see if that’ll take. So far it’s going in OK-we’ll see.<\/br><\/p>\n