June 26, 2006
My first post is up, talking about the proposed flag burning amendment.
It may be akin to heresy, but I just donÂ’t think we need an amendment against flag-burning. And my reason has nothing to do with the rarity of the practice or the sanctity of the First Amendment. Rather, my opposition has to do with the question of property rights.Unfortunately, some in Congress donÂ’t see it that way.
Drop by the site and read the rest!
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June 25, 2006
Chandler: I just don't want to be one of those guys that's in his office until twelve o'clock at night worrying about the WENUS.Rachel: The... the WENUS?
Chandler: Weekly Estimated Net Usage Systems. It's a processing term.
Rachel: Oh, that WENUS.
I've spent too much time worrying about how my blog looks, how much traffic I'm getting, and whether I am interesting/topical enough.
So I'm taking the day off for me, my Darling Democrat, and the Apolitical Pooch.
I'll post tomorrow.
In the mean time, one of the two mentioned above wants her belly rubbed. I'll leave it to your imagination which it is.
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June 17, 2006
Annika sez: i heard a rumor about a hacker threat?Yes. It's a group of Turkish Islamist hacker-wannabe's going after The Jawa Report. They can't actually break in, so they've settled for a Distributed Denial of Service attack which takes us offline.
Unfortunately, the shared filesystem I built to keep us going in these situations decided to choose today to drop off its perch, so I wasn't able to bring everything back up on the other server. Right now, I'm copying everyone's files across, one blog at a time.
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update: Okay, I think it's all fixed, except for The Jawa Report, which will be back as soon as the attack is over.
I have managed to separate things so that when an attack starts, we can just block it, and only The Jawa Report will go offline.
Thanks, Pixy, for everything you do for those of us in the Munuvian Universe.
And may these Islmaist sons of swine, who keep attacking the free men and women of the blogosphere in a futile attempt to silence the truth, one day receive a gift ordered from the same catalog as that recently delivered to Abu Musam al-Zarqawi.
MORE ON THE ATTACK ON JAWA REPORT at Ace of Spades
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June 12, 2006
I'm not a fan of rape shield laws, as I believe they stigmatize those accused without subjecting the accuser to the same sort of public scrutiny that the accused must face. But at the same time, I have some concerns about the sort of information that was posted.
So, folks, what do you think -- should it stay or should it go?
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June 11, 2006
A couple of his summer fill-ins have taken a serious interest in thePhilippines, and has been posting about some of that nation's greatest natural resources.
Really -- go take a look at the eye-candy.
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June 07, 2006
I wanted to write about the death of one of my heroes -- President Ronald Reagan.
I also wanted a safe space to talk politics without adding extra stresses to my marriage to my Darling Democrat.
So began Precinct 333, a Blogger blog that morphed into Rhymes With Right the following spring when I joined the Munuvians the following spring at the invitation of one of my online companions.
I'd like to thank every person who has viewed my blog -- and especially the commenters and linkers. It has been an honor to have most of you here (spammers excepted), and I thank you for the time and energy you have put in helping me build this blog into something I've come to be proud of.
May we have many more years together -- and my the growth continue.
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And what the heck -- let's turn this into a special Blogiversary Edition linkfest and open trackback carnival!
You know the rules -- link back to this post with your best/favorite current posts. I won't limit your number of posts, but instead ask you to exercise prudent judgement about how many you send.
Some folks have told me they have problems trackbacking to this site. If this is the case, please use the Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger to establish the link.
And, of course, don't forget the big three rules.
No Spam. No Porn. No Problem.
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June 03, 2006
SplatSorry about the explosions, fires, earthquakes and other catastrophes today.
Yuri, the server that runs most of the blogs, got hit by a denial-of-service attack.
After disconnecting the server from the internet (if I left it connected, it would crash), I started copying all the blogs across to Kei, the other server.
Then Kei ran into a spot of disk trouble, and it crashed too.
If you're reading this, it's a sign that things are almost back to normal. Except that the entire load of mu.nu is now sitting on one server rather than two. So I have to pry everything loose again somehow, hopefully without eight hours of downtime this time around.
Update: All blogs have been moved and should be working now. I need to activate Fluffy, and I'm sure I've forgotten a couple of other things.
Thanks, dude, for all you do. I really don't say it enough.
And by the way -- where did you get those server names?
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