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Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
Red Moon
The moon is coming back now. We had a very crisp and clear sky here, after the storm the other night. I just sat in the back yard for a while, and put the chair where I could turn the binocs from the moon to the M31 in Andromeda (not anywhere near that detailed of course), to the Double Cluster in Perseus (again, not as detailed in the binocs but still pretty darned beautiul). I also could see Albireo (looks pretty much exactly like this, only space is blacker). A great night! Even with some pretty cheap 7 x 50 binoculars, the sky so clear through them was in deep relief, awesome. Literally. The moon was blood red; I watched until the light of the sun hit it directly again. As the moon got brighter, the stars got harder to see.
I also had the first taste of my 4th beer. A pale bitter beer with a hop punch. It's the first time I really mucked with a recipe, and I did it by adding a ton (well, 2 oz.) of Saaz hops after the brew had finished fermenting. It has a ton (5 oz.) of Kent Goldings Hops, kind of like a Pilsner crossed with an India Pale Ale. Bam!
Sitting in the dark of the yard and staring up at the sky is such a glorious thing to do, a deep pleasure. I've enjoyed it intensely off and on my whole life. I'm really happy my eyes have held up well enough to let me do that.
9:42:48 PM Permalink
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Alameda County Voters
Though the poll workers won't tell you this voluntarily, you can not be forced to vote on one of the dodgy computers they're using. You have the right to request a paper ballot. I know I will. Read about it here.
7:17:08 PM Permalink
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WORD
WORD: "
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1953
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(Via UNDERNEWS.)
7:16:41 PM Permalink
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MySQL 4.1.7 for Windows
A bit of a hassle installing this bugger this morning on my Windows 2003 server. First, I removed the old install of 4.1.4, then ran the new installer, which seemed to work OK. But when I tested it, I found that it had pointed the service at the default data directory, and not to my data directory on another drive. So I stopped the service, changed my.ini to point it at the right place, and tried again. The service kept failing with a 1067 error. When I dug into the logs, I found out that my innodb_log_file_size in my.ini was set to 10M, but the files, from the old 4.1.4 isntall were 5M files. Changing the line in my.ini fixed that. Of course, it actually took me better part of an hour to figure this out. This is on a test server in a bedroom. After I've hammered it here, I'll have to decide whether and when to upgrade a production server on BSD.
11:56:05 AM Permalink
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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