As we all figured was the case and as Ruth did an excellent job of explaining at the last meeting, the whole deal concerning the attempt to squelch the web site was in order for Joseph apparently to get revenge for getting himself kicked-off of the web site committee.
Thanks to Ruth for bringing forward this information in front of everyone in the meeting. I'm going to make sure this was added to the meeting minutes for posterity.
What is the most awesome part of all of this is that poor Kim could have had all of this resolved THREE months ago if she had just shown up to the first meeting following the posting of the article that she didn't like. Not only that, but if the results of the vote last Tuesday is a good judge of what would have happened at the first meeting (and I think it is), then she could have gotten her way in 5 minutes or less.
Unfortunately, Kim joined forces with Joseph & Co. which stretched-out the whole thing to three grueling months. My opinion is that revenge is always a poor motivation for anything. People make grave errors in judgement when revenge is their motivation. Unfortunately, revenge seems to be the only motivation that Joseph has as far as the neighborhood is concerned.
Note to others looking for allies in the neighborhood in the future: Avoid Joseph & Co. They will just spend months screwing around trying to address their hidden agenda instead of helping you out and in the end they will fail miserably on all points.
I believe this is the beginning of the end of the reign of terror in Boylan Heights.
Thanks be for that!
Jeff
My, they are a busy little bunch. It's coming down to crunch time, and they're flailing all around in their last ditch efforts to see who's cuisine reigns supreme! Unfortunately, their dish is the poo poo platter served-up from the back yard of their leader's rental property!
Shame on them for trying to fill the heads of the innocent with their skeevy slimey goo they call "neighborliness" and then sending them out to do their dirty work. Grow some backbones and make the call yourself next time, losers!
Mr. Rogers is turning in his grave!
You all need to get out more. You really have WAY too much time on your hands. Have you considered taking positions in Iraq? Maybe you all could sail there together!
Thanks,
Jeff
So, they're at it again. I laugh at them.
Legends in their own minds.
Go on back out to Portland and drown yourself in a cup ... screw that... just drown yourself.
You are truly pathetic and have become what you faught against in your youth.
Liberal my ass!
You're as conservative as they come.
Cry yourself to sleep tonight,
Jeff
Suddenly and sadly we lost our cat Casey on Tuesday morning. We had been taking her to the NCSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital for an unusual nail bed (claw bed) infection for the past couple of months when on Sunday night she suddenly started having trouble breathing.
We took her to the emergency service that the vet school where they started to treat her immediately, but sadly she did not respond to any therapy.
By Tuesday morning she was in distress -- not able to breath easily on her own -- even in an oxygen tent. With much remorse and sadness, we decided that euthanasia was the kindest thing we could do for Casey.
Casey and I were best buddies. She was always happy to see me and eager to get a good petting or scratching from me. I will miss her terribly.
I will miss the way that she would stand guard outside the bathroom while I or Heather were showering, the way that she would flirt with me while sitting at the foot of the bed while I got ready for work in the morning, the way that she would nuzzle my scalp while I was trying to sleep, and many other things. She was my cat according to Heather. She knew that I had picked her out from Snowflake Rescue and that I was her biggest fan.
She did have trouble relating to our other cats, but was extremely tolerent of children -- a rarity in cats.
I will remember Casey always as a friend who loved me very much and who I loved right back.
I miss you Case Cat,
Jeff G.
I understand that I have some new readers. Well, welcome to my little corner of the internet where I rant and rave over various items.
You will no doubt gain some added perspective of just what makes Jeff tick from the few, but pointed entries that I make to my blog.
Most of the more grouchy entries can be traced to caffeine withdrawl headaches. I am a confessed caffeine addict. I have no intention of changing this aspect of my daily life. Beware that if you happen to see me any time before 10AM, I probably haven't had my first caffeine of the day and I'm likely to be less than charming.
So, one might ask, when are you charming, Jeff? Well, that depends on a lot of things. I won't go into them here, but suffice it to say that it may happen periodically.
This server upgrade that I have been picking up the pieces from for the past two weeks has been quite an experience. The most annoying was milter-date discarding the digest messages because the stupid listserv software neglected to supply a date field in the email messages.
I wound up having to delve into the Mailman code itself and fix the problem so that I could still use milter-date. Mailman is written primarily in a language called "Python" that I've not programmed in before. It was nicely very straight forward what I needed to fix and it took me about a half an hour to go through two coding, building, and testing iterations. I was quite pleased with myself that I still could hack code.
I don't do much programming aside from shell scripts any more. Most of my time is spent dreaming up ways to keep the systems at work running for as long as possible between times when I actually have to touch them.
Laziness makes for good system administrators. They only want to have to fix something once and be done with it. Having to do something more than once is painful.
The laundry list of items that required me to do some migration work after the Red Hat 7.1 to Fedora Core 2 upgrade is pretty darned long. I'll try to list them here from memory:
- The IMAP server changed from Washington IMAP to Cyrus_IMAPD.
- The web server changed from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2
- Red Hat's build of sendmail still sucks
- Mailman went from version 1.0.13 (I think) to version 2.1.5
- Pine went from being a provide Red Hat RPM to a third party RPM
- Washington FTPD was replace by VSFTPD
By far, the IMAPD, sendmail, and Mailman were the items that took the most of my time.
One last word of wisdom: Don't falsly accuse someone of something unless you're willing to accept the consequences of them turning around and actually doing it to you.