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Concerning the recent downtime of SilverFir.net, sorry about that. I made a mistake.

Three recent kernel panics on sf2, the server behind most of silverfir.net, had me concerned. I googled the problem, found that it was linked to Kernel version 2.6.10, which I was running, and so it became clear the an upgrade to Kernel 2.6.11 was in order. Being the master that I sometimes am, I performed the upgrade nearly flawlessly, and sf2 is now running with the new kernel. Let me know if you notice anything weird. Assuming that no problems are seen, I will make the new kernel permanent (and probably delete the old 2.6 kernel as well).

The circuits midterm I just finished was not as bad as everyone made it seem by staying, to a person, until the end of class. The last midterm saw people walking out halfway through the period; there was no equivalent for this one. While I too was pushed to the brink and in fact did not finish the last problem, I am convinced I could have, if only I hadn’t messed up on each of the first three problems, only to catch myself later and return to fix the error. In short, I could have aced it, but I didn’t because of the dumb little things. I’m disappointed, because I don’t get bitten this way too often, but it is still better than I probably would have done, had I not had a gestalt about second order differential equations after lunch today. So overall, I am pleased. We shall see how I feel on Monday, when the test is returned.

Not so hot in the reading or exercise, or sleeping parts, or in the CS part. Bah.

Mega-uber-super-rut this weekend.

Resolutions? Not worth talking about.

Starting to come out fo the funk now, though, I think.

One of the greatest perks of joing the Libertarian Party for me has been getting onto the email distribution list of our esteeemable campaigns coordinator, Jeff Jared. While many people loathe getting onto any list, this one is literally a constant stream of good ideas, mostly in the form of published letters to the editor from libertarians.

Some examples:

2005-05-17 KING COUNTY JOURNAL Letters to the Editor

HOSPITAL

Washington’s Department of Health squashed building a new Issaquah hospital. Sorry outer-suburbanites, you’ve got to come to the inner-burbs to get medical care because the state has decreed it so.

This is just another example of how socialist central planning strangles market forces in health care and raises costs through bureaucratic entanglement.

Let’s deregulate health care. The state Department of Health should take a chill pill and let market participants like Overlake Hospital build another in Issaquah if they want to.

Jeff Jared

Kirkland

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The last two days haen’t gone too well from a resolution standpoint. After gettting donr with my presentation in my technical writing class and a major homework deadline in my electri circuits class, i forgot all about the libert6y forum and instgead ended up playi ng basket bll with a church grouop until a bout 11:00. I started out poorly, but e nded with the wi n ni ng shot so it nturned out o0k, After getti ng home, i i set to work on lau ndry and encded up satyi ng up uiuntil abou t twso amj playing cs wyhile w azitiing for the dr yer to finish up. Redsukltaz ntly, i d idn’t msake it uinto work u ntil s bout noon o n thursdasy .I stayeed late sin ce all i had in teh wiriti ng 2was listeni ng to presentstio ns. last night wassd a bnout /the same, bu twithoput thne lau dnry. I did well, but tgot to sleepo prewtty lastge. I still made uit into weork, todasy. Pretty mcuh no0thi ng welse on the lists got done thosre days. c

Now i am in a cafe in seattlw iqwht dan and jay marashm wiri9tn g thsisw piost on dan;s journada.c in cawse4 you hav ew nm;t noticed, i am no vgoo d at typi ng on this kry board. i gave up try7i ng to fix the writ6jgn a whiel ago since it was taki9ng too long. I hope you are a ble tgoi u nderawstgand the post.l