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The least flexible component of any system is the user. -- Lowell Jay Arthur


Tuesday, June 24, 2003


Troll count

Well, it seems that the troll who posted that comment on my site last week has found himself an ISP that protects trolls (if in no other fashion than through neglecting to punish their activities).

I gave them three business days to respond. Either they ignored my complaint, or don’t bother to actually read their e-mail. I have, accordingly, taken the matter up one level to their Internet access point, a company which I CC-ed on the original complaint.

That company, Level 3, responded within a few hours with a link to their AUP, which clearly applies not only to their customers (companies who re-sell access), but their customer’s customers as well…

The offending ISP?

Network Access Solutions of Herndon, VA.
Their phone number is (703) 241-8539.

If any of you live in that area of the country, let them know you care, won’t you? The offender accessed my site using IP address 64.8.206.74 at 2:32pm Pacific Time (5:32 pm Eastern) on Thursday evening, June 19th. Spread the word, as often and as thoroughly as possible. Don’t threaten, just tell the truth: that they permit known trolls to proliferate.

Posted by Drumwaster at 04:13 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: Asshats |

Well, the sun is finally out

So I guess that means summer is really here, but according to my trusty thermometer (which is just outside the door), it’s only 68 degrees. So it’s a little on the cool side, but a very pleasant day, nevertheless. Call it “mid-spring”, rather than “summer”.

We actually had a rather nice fireworks show here the other night (some event downtown, but I have no idea what it was). The kids in a nearby apartment block have apparently secreted away some firecrackers, and we hear them go off every now and then. My wife is always nervous about them, and asks (every time), “Is that a gunshot?”

I always reassure her that it’s not (the difference seems instantly clear to me for some reason - maybe the military training), but the big BOOM in the sky was recognizable as an explosion, so I went out to look. It took some convincing for her to come out and watch the display, but it was very pretty.

I’m still trying to get her to go to a minor league ball game with me, because you get the same kind of play, with a lot more enthusiasm, and there’s even a chance of meeting a future major-leaguer and - who knows? - maybe even a Hall of Famer… (my mother met Ken Griffey, Jr., that way, during his extremely abbreviated minor league career).

Maybe once the move is over…

Posted by Drumwaster at 12:35 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Recall Gray Davis!

Recent news is that Gray Davis and the Democratically-controlled State Assembly and State Senate have voted to triple the automobile licensing fees. They have to make up for the spending spree somehow, and cutting spending (by getting rid of the illegal aliens on the California gravy train, as one example) just never occurred to them. But since this is a “fee” and not a “tax” - even though almost every adult in the state has to pay it - it doesn’t require a 2/3 majority in the state legislature (which the Democrats don’t have), just a simple majority (which they do).

I have signed this petition, and I urge any of you living in the state of California to do so as well. Or if you don’t want to sign the petition on-line, scout around at shopping malls and other public gatherings, and sign the physical petition. If you don’t live in California, but think it’s a good idea for the most populous state in the nation to be reduced to fiscal bankruptcy because of a morally and intellectually bankrupt state government, then feel free to contribure a few bucks to the effort. It would be greatly appreciated by those of us here…

As of this morning, they have gotten a little more than half of the approximately 800 thousand signatures they need to put it on the ballot in November.

Other sites on this issue can be found here and here. Spread the word, and kick “Shades of” Gray back to the rock he slithered out from under.

Posted by Drumwaster at 09:33 AM | (0) Trackbacks
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It’s Tuesday!

And that means that it’s time for another episode of ”This-or-That Tuesday”, and since I missed last week’s entry (because of the domain move), I’m including both in the extended entry below…


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