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I’ve been following the Paris riots for the last few days, and then today, saw the headline that violent rioting has broken out in Argentina, the site of the Americas Summit 2005. Why do these people always have to turn to violence? I may be naïve in saying this, but don’t they lose a ton of credibility when they start destroying “innocent” property?

Yes – it’s horrible that the kids in Paris were killed, and yes, Bush’s economic policies haven’t been of much benefit to the people of Central America. Should that give them an excuse to destroy others’ property? Heck no. It seems as if, in any population, there exists a subset of people who look for any excuse to “get dirty”. Once an occasion like the Paris debachle or the Americas Summit comes along, they see their opportunity, and go wreak havoc.

If they organized themselves in a non-violent fashion and spoke with their leaders in a civil fashion, I believe they’d be able to get their point across much better.

Then again, maybe I’m completely out of touch with reality.

Okay, so this will only be humorous to a (very) select few of you…

You know you’re a homebrewer when….

I had the electric inspection for my basement remodel project today and passed with flying colors. The only thing I’ll need to change is making all the outlets in the non-finished storage area GFCI. That won’t be hard – I’ll just install a GFCI outlet in the first position along that circuit. Fortunately, this small fix didn’t prevent the inspector from approving my work. Tonight, I’m hoping to get flexible conduit installed to a few places in the basement and then tomorrow Todd’s coming over to help carry sheetrock down to the basement. I should be able to start putting the rock up tomorrow evening!

Well we’ve officially surpassed the 2500 emails/day mark at work. I’ve been watching the number creep up to 2500 over the last few months. Unfortunately, it looks like the lion’s share of the increase is due to spam (99% of which gets successfully quarantined).

That is all.