General

The server was down most of the morning & Bounceweb hasn’t given any explanation.

I don’t care if this server is free, I should look for someplace more reliable.

NY Times Article [Morons Dot Org]

Ashcroft really scares me. He’s done more to erode our rights than any government official has done in our entire history. The attacks of 9-11 were the best thing that ever happened to him, giving him an excuse to push forth his agenda.

Bounceweb had a major problem with their server, and as a result they eliminated Plesk and switched those customers over to Ensim.

It doesn’t work quite the same, so I had to change the URL of my weblog from http://www.mc-development.com/~mike to http://www.mc-development.com/weblog.

Nominate the world’s stupidest security procedure. UK-based watchdog group, Privacy International, is accepting nominations until March 15th from the general public about the most annoying and invasive security measures with the lowest effectiveness in protecting individual safety. What would you nominate? [metafilter.com]

I realize that the main reason my condo’s value is so high is because I’m in Wilton Manors. You pay a premium just for the location. The place I want to move to is in Oakland Park, which is just as nice but doesn’t have the same snob appeal, so you can find a nicer place there for less.

I hope I get the 3 bedroom townhome I looked at yesterday. I really love that development (Embarcadero) & I wanted to buy there originally, but the owner was a flake and couldn’t be located, so I ended up where I am now.

Dave Says:

I’ve spent most of today moving stuff from the house to the third dumpster. If the stuff in the house was that valuless, in a sense I was living in a dumpster. Most of the stuff I’m throwing away now, on shelves, in the house, had not been touched in years. I got a clue about this when I spent most of the last quarter of 2002 in New York. I did pretty well with a suitcase, knapsack, laptop and cellphone. There really wasn’t much more that I needed, or much more that I could even use. When I’m traveling I find I watch very little TV, I always have a book I’m reading, nothing like the 1000 books I keep at my house, most of which I’ve never read and never will. (The ones I read invariably I give away, because those are the ones I talk about.) Then the last few days with all the talk about commons vs property, and I realize I probably would be happier with a really nice room, a large one, with a deck and a hot tub, bathroom and shower, and access to a kitchen for the rare times I create a meal, and that’s about it. Having a car is nice, but I don’t need anything on the order of the kinds of possessions that have accumulated in this very nice house-dumpster. [Scripting News]

I can definitely identify with this. I’ve accumulated far too much stuff. All I really need is my PowerBook & my cell phone, yet I have 4 computers and far too many CDs (which I never listen to, since all of my favorites are ripped to MP3s and loaded in my iPod). I still have boxes that I didn’t unpack since I moved here last year.

My place is listed for $102 (I paid $84,500 a year ago). I also now qualify for a lower mortgage rate, so I can now afford a nicer place for less than I’m paying now.

I talked to a realtor about selling my place. He’ll be here this evening to get it started & I’ll be looking for a new place this weekend.

Friday Flash Fun with Cutethulhu. That right kids, he’s not just Cthulhu, demon squid and priest of the Great Old Ones from H. P. Lovecraft mythos. He’s a popular plush toy and the cuddly inanimate star of his own flash anime-style short. Enjoy! [metafilter.com]