Kennon’s Space

I rolled up to a drive-thru Wells Fargo ATM this morning to get some cash on the way to the office and was greeted with some corrupt or missing .DLL’s. Hey buddy! Yer GINA ain’t loading…at least it didn’t default back to the MSGINA or something stupid like that. I suppose I could have hit OK on the dialog box and made the ATM reboot if I hadn’t been in a hurry to get some coffee but unless the camera system on the ATM is running Windows too it probably got some good pictures of my mug so I left well enough alone.

Looks like it’s time to reinstall the OS. Over the last couple years I have actually come to appreciate Microsoft servers at work. Being primarily a Linux admin I am basically the Maytag repairman around here as I very rarely ever touch my servers except on patch days. So in this economic climate I have learned to appreciate the job security Microsoft brings to my data center, and I am sure whoever gets sent out to this ATM will be glad it isn’t Linux based either…

A great article by the WSJ detailing yet another instance in which we see that the Federal Government is evil regardless of who is at the helm. I sure hope those enemy of my enemy Puppet Theater fans who voted for Obama instead of real change are feeling pretty stupid right about now. So much for any hope of them repealing the “Patriot” Act.

“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there’s the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foisted on the somnambulant public.” – Mr. Universe, Serenity.

Wow bet someone at the Globe is going to get fired for printing this piece. Speaking out publicly against the church of Gore tends to land you in big trouble. The author of this article hits the nail on the head when he points out:

“But considering how much attention would have been lavished on a comparable run of hot weather or on a warming trend that was plainly accelerating, shouldn’t the recent cold phenomena and the absence of any global warming during the past 10 years be getting a little more notice? Isn’t it possible that the most apocalyptic voices of global-warming alarmism might not be the only ones worth listening to?”

*GASP*