So yeah, I’ve been using gmail for nearly nine months now. Early in the summer, they were giving out invites like crazy – I would give six away one day, and then the next day, six more would show up. Well I they haven’t given out any invites for the last four months or so…that is until last Thursday, when they gave me six more invites. I dumped these into a gmail invite-distributing website, and lo and behold, when I came back from the weekend, I have six more invites. It makes a guy wonder when they’re going to wrap up the beta phase.
Anyways – I know these things aren’t as sought-after as they once were, but if you would like a gmail invite, please let me know…
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I stumbled upon Joe Scarborough’s show on MSNBC tonight, which I’ve never watched before, but I was intrigued by what he was talking about tonight. He called the segment the “Real News out of Iraq”, and in it, he shamed the mainstream news media for their blatant negative spin on their news coverage of the Iraq situation. You can read the article in full here, but for those who are curious and/or time-strapped, I’ll highlight a few items here:
- Shiites and Kurds make up roughly 80% of Iraq’s population, and the overwhelming majority of these support the elections slated for the end of January.
- Sunnis (Saddam Hussein’s clan) make up the remainder of Iraq’s population, and many of them support the elections.
- Many of the most powerful Shiite Muslim leaders are telling their people that their participation in the elections next month is a religious duty right up there with fasting.
- An overwhelming majority of the U.S. armed forces in Iraq not only believe that the war is just, but they strongly support both the President’s handling of it as well as Secretary Rumsfeld’s leadership.
It’s really a shame that the media chooses to neglect these facts. I guess it’s an indicator of the human condition, huh? The media moguls know very well our obsession with gore, violence, despair, and injustice, and they exploit said obsession to pad their own pockets. I’m not saying that they need not cover events like car bombs, military failures, etc. I’m just saying that they ought to listen to their hearts for once and tell the real story – not just the negative side.
Oh – and as a side note, as most of you know, a tape surfaced today supposed recorded by Osama, in which he names al-Zarqawi as his top deputy in Iraq. Yes, I know this tape hasn’t been verified 100% yet, but it certainly sheds a little light onto the Iraq-Al-Qaeda link.
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Well – I finally did it…the batch that I intended to brew over two months ago has finally been started. So…if all goes according to plan, two months or so from now, I’ll have a bunch of Dark Raspberry Stout in the bottle. We’ll see how it turns out…
The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxed. We enjoyed a quiet Christmas Eve supper on Friday along with a candlelight service at church. Saturday, I left for Willmar around six when Meghan left for work to spend the day with my family. I stayed out there till after supper and then headed back here. We ended up going over to the Kuipers’ house for the evening, which was a great time, as we hadn’t seen them for a while.
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So I’ve had an old iPAQ 3835 for a long time that I’ve been wanting to throw linux on, but have been too nervous about doing it for fear of turning it into a brick…well tonight I overcame that, and got linux successfully installed! It was actually really easy – much moreso than I was expecting. The basic steps were thus:
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This year for Christmas, Dan and I recieved each six beer singles from our VP, Dr. Nelson. These are not just any beers – they are premium craft brews from all over the world. We recieved a similar gift last year, and I now regret not documenting which ones I recieved. So this year, I decided to document the beers…so here we go:
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