Chris Gulker: Texttext-only channel for Weblog(Untitled)- March 30, 2004 Moving day: so, XO, our service provider of almost 5 years, are being such idots that I will be moving gulker.com much sooner than planned. As a result, the Herald Examiner message board and comments server will be down until I figure out technologies that will run on the new, hosted service. BTW. if you own XO stock, dump it. They're hopeless, with clueless, unempowered customer service people. These guys are unlikely to survive... expensive service that's bad...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/29.html#a2169 (Untitled)- March 29, 2004 Congress to criminalize P2P: Senators introduce legislation to impose jail time for sharing as little as one file, while the House may consider a bill lowering the bar for taking people to court. Entertainment lobbyists appear to be winning their war against peer-to-peer networks. By Xeni Jardin in Wired News...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/29.html#a2168 (Untitled)- March 29, 2004 gulker.com will be moving servers sometime in the next couple of days: there will likely be some DNS weirdness as we go from our 144K IDSL line to a managed hosting facility. We'll leave both sites up until the DNS changes propagate. Main advantages should be much better response times: www.gulker.com is slow for people using broadband connections (like our new 3 mbps Comcast ADSL line), and our vendor, XO, won't match SBC and other competitors' rates (XO charges $150 month SBC wants $54). ...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/29.html#a2167 (Untitled)- March 29, 2004 Methane has been found on Mars by 2 independent groups, according to a report in the Independent. Living organisms are one of the ways methane is produced...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/28.html#a2165 (Untitled)- March 24, 2004 Jack Valenti to retire: check the very last line of this Eonline report. I guess I'd say yay, except that the people mentioned to replace him are pretty grim...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/23.html#a2160 (Untitled)- March 23, 2004 Hmmmm... may be time for a gulker.com overhaul... stay tuned...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/23.html#a2159 (Untitled)- March 22, 2004 Music Makers: the Music Maker Foundation helps blues artists with everything from recording to finding living quarters. Founded by Tim Duffy 20 years ago, the foundation is described as "part recording company, part artist management service and part social welfare agency." And, the Foundation's music is available on iTunes! 2 volumes of Songs from the Roots of America are available for $9.99 each, with more than 20 songs per album. Artists like Whistling Britches Thompson, Cootie Stark,...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/22.html#a2158 (Untitled)- March 22, 2004 Telling words: "Many in the church had hoped to avoid a confrontation on homosexuality, one of the most contentious issues facing the church since the Methodist split over slavery in 1844." From the New York Times. The reference is to the current controversy in the Methodist Church. Bretheren in Christ, do we not see the comparison Some Methodists supported slavery, upon a time. Had those people spent the time to ask Christ, in their prayers, what their path forward should be Please, if you...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/21.html#a2157 (Untitled)- March 22, 2004 Guy's night in: with spouse out of town, I'm free to experiment with culinary tastes - and a price point - that don't normally fly hereabouts. Tonight's dinner was turkey sausage (Jodi Maroni's Yucatan) sauteed with peppers, onions, okra, corn and tomatoes. A little dry white wine was the only other ingredient, other than a touch of brine from the Bruce Foods canned okra. The ingredients, from Trader Joe's and Safeway, came in under $3... delicious, if you ask me, and easy to make...http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/21.html#a2156 (Untitled)- March 21, 2004 Prejudice and faith: regular readers know that I have made it my Lenten mission to learn more about fellow Christians who oppose homosexuality on religious grounds. I have been grateful for those who have reached out and tried to help me understand what I see as bigotry. Thank you. The dialog has been welcome. But, I keep coming back to a basic tension. During the 60s, when some groups cited religion as a justification for racial discrimination, I came to the conclusion that you can't be a..http://www.gulker.com/categories/text/2004/03/21.html#a2154 |