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Humiliated, Angry, Ashamed, Brown. is written by Ian Spiers and describes his recent encounter with some agents from the Department of Homeland Security.  Nice.  And I suppose out of all the people around this area with cameras they just happened to single him out for extra scrutiny.  Right.

On a somewhat related note, you better watch what you are reading these days.  Apparently being in possession of "inappropriate" reading material can cause you to be singled out and have it confiscated.

This my fellow Americans is the way in which the wonderous USA Patriot Act is making us all safer from terrorists.  It's good to see that the Constitution isn't being trampled on in any way.  Well, except some of the silliness like that IV Amendment!  God save us for ourselves or at least our government!

In the best news that has come out of NASA in some time, they've finally agreed to consider saving the Hubble Space Telescope with a robotic mission.  It's about time that somebody came to their senses and did the right thing.  Hubble has been, and now will continue to be the premier space research platform for the astronomy community.

8-11-2004
And now meet Dextre, the leading candidate to go and do the work.

I just read this article on Yahoo.  And the best I can say about it is that Stephen H. Galton needs to "get a life"!  I certainly don't have any love for lawyers of your ilk, but I do understand your need to protect your clients.  That's fine, but just because you get bagged on in a public forum and called a shyster is no reason start suing people.  Then again I guess it is if you're a bottom feeder!  You appear to be old enough to know the old adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me".  I'm sure your mother would be very proud of you today.  Nice job spunky.

I recently past 20,000 miles in my modern cycling career.  Because of work and family commitments, most of my riding for the past several years has been (and continues to be) done in the wee morning hours.  Nothing like being blasted out by the alarm clock at 4:15am to hit the road.  One of the good and bad things about that is the various critters that you get to share your ride with.  What follows is a rundown of what I generally see, the hazards the represent and some amusing encounters with them.

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I felt compelled to update this after this morning's ride added horses to the critter list!  …more

In an effort to get this "out there" I've packaged up what I've got and made it available on the PolarBlog releases page.  This is pretty much V1.0 barring any bug fix related changes.  The big hole would be documentation which is not done yet.  Most users should be able to get up and running though by following the instructions in the "INSTALL" file.  Happy blogging!