• Mickey Kaus notes an article in the Tucson Citizen talking about a country which is having problems handling the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face from Mexican illegals… The country having these issues? Mexico. Amazing how that works. Weren’t these issues we were not supposed to consider legit when they were coming north of the border?
  • Been thnking about adding a podcast of some kind, but there’s problems both conceptually and logistically. Concepts abound, but the one I’m mostly thinking about is the idea of getting the Swamp Stompers together on audio chat roundtable and podcasting the result. We’ll see how that goes.
  • Speaking of the Stompers, I note fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah has a good deal of updates up on South Carolina. I see the weather they’re getting there may be causing an issue.
  • Kathy Shaidle, who usually blogs at FiveFeetOfFury, is guesting for the weekend at RWN. She writes of a “debate” that went down in Toronto, and links to Mike Brock, who has audio.
  • An annoying event; I’ve spent a bit of time building up a new file and print server for Casa de Bit, and found I have a bad SCSI card, which clearly was the reason for the failure of the server I pulled it from originally.  (I tend to use a lot of used parts for my personal projects, and to that end, I have a small mountain of older equipment around, in various states of functionality. ) The good part of that is the server I pulled that part from isn’t as bad off as I thought it was.  I’m finding that Ebay is an excellent source of pull-off parts, which I tap at need. I managed to get exactly the card I was looking for, for $15… not bad considering they go well over $100 new. Good thing to do on a cold, cold..(near zero) day.
  • Another really great thing about the colder days is this is when the Rainer SUV I bought really shines. I’d love to see those Sou-Cal Prius owners try to drive under the conditions we get up here. I’d take an admittedly perverse pleasure in counting the number of the things in the ditch as I drive by.

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