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Wednesday, February 18, 2004

More Scandals Surface – Kerry Was A Lousy Bass Player! "We put the band together to pursue the possibility of getting a little closer to the opposite sex," the band's piano player Jack Radcliffe tells the BBC. "They weren't tearing our clothes off, but we enjoyed it, absolutely," Mr Kerry told the Washington Post. Critics say the music, mostly instrumentals, has a raw, primal rock 'n' roll quality, in the tradition of music by Eddie Cochran and surf bands like the Ventures. As the only member of the Electras to have pursued a career in the music industry, Mr Radcliffe is in no doubt that Mr Kerry chose the right profession. "Most of us are Republicans, and most of us would prefer to teach George Bush how to play the bass rather than use John," he jokes in an interview with the World Service's The World Today programme. 9:16:03 PM    comment []

I understand that most readers of this crappy blog are members of my own family or people searching Google images for “Japanese Orgy” and, frighteningly, both. That’s okay, as we say in Carolina, even a blind pig can find an acorn. I never knew pigs eat acorns, wonder if that would season their flesh like whey and grain fed Parma pigs, peanut-fed Virginia Smithfield candidates, or the more exotic pigs of Westphalia who snort down Zweiback with tea. Okay, my point is I found a contest at The Guardian is having a contest called Shampaign Moments where you Photoshop your favorite or least favorite Presidential candidate into a glorious or shameful photo-op. This should be fun! 7:37:33 PM    comment []

I haven’t turned on the TV or watched a movie since Liz left for the UK over two weeks ago. I have been turning it on to play with my 802.11b jukebox and I should have left it off for that too.   The problem was initially with playing double CDs. The receiver just wasn’t seeing all the titles, probably because of its (undocumented) cataloging system. That was easy to fix. Sort the titles by file creation date, select the first group of 1-n and edit the properties to give the second set of 1-n a different album title. I was on a roll!   Then I decided to play with the settings on the wireless router. Mistake. I was bothered by a connection from IP 127.0.0.1, so I typed it in the URL and found I had installed a remote access program that I had forgotten about. Uninstalled it. Now that address takes me to Lycos! Shit! Better check all security. I checked all connections and recorded MAC addresses. Whoops! Better not broadcast that SSID. Where is that 06-0A-25-47-79-CF MAC coming from. I went into network properties and temporarily installed the XP firewall. I switched from 64-bit to 128-bit WEPS. Changed passwords. There, now my wireless network is secure.   So secure that even I can’t get on it anymore. I can see the signal, I just can’t get on. Fuck. I rebooted and there were two new users on the logon screen – the wireless receiver and my secondary email address. Fuck. I do this shit all day long, I don’t wanna do it at home. I want to drink a beer when I get home. That’s the first good idea I’ve had. I’ll drink a beer and worry about this shit when I’m in the mood for it. I’m certain nobody can get on my network if I can’t. I can put my music in the CD player and listen to it that way. Maybe I’ll watch some TV. 6:57:02 PM    comment []