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Been a while since I have blogged, but I have a good reason, I have a new job!  I am now a manufacturing engineer at a company called Grayhill.  In case you didn’t know, in real life, I am an electronics engineer.  I have been working here for about a week now, and it has been pretty interesting so far.
On the computer front, my wife bought me, as a present for getting a new job, a DVD burner.  It is an NEC dual laywer drive.  For anyone who doesn’t have one, spend the 70 bucks and buy a DVD burner.  If you use it for just backups, it is worth it.  I have also figured out how to shrink DVD9 to DVD5 movies.  I will post a tutorial later under the Linux section, since I have no idea how to do it under windows.

On the political front, yeesh, just as I thought.  The second term of the shrub will somehow, be worse than the first.  200 billion for Iraq, and nothing for Amtrak or the needy childern in the U.S.A.  What at sick joke.

Well, enough of depressing stuff, I am enjoying my much shorter trips to work and more money.

Happy New Year everyone, well, not really happy so far.
I feel sorry for all the poor bastards in the Indian ocean. The
death toll is over 124,000 now. Not a good start for the new
year. We still have the same chimp as chief as well, so that
does not bode well. I just hope he gets his ass in gear and
really gets something done. We are still in the hole in respect
to jobs overall, and manufacturing jobs are extremely lacking at
this point. We have the potential to be a great nation, or fail
badly. I hope this year is better than the last.

Watched the town hall debate last night and came to the following conclusions:
Bush’s whole camapign is based on more of the same, keep on the same course.  The problem is that the last 4 years have sucked ass.  I don’t know what Bush is talking about, the economy still sucks, we are still at war in a country we shouldn’t be in, and he has done nothing to slow global warming, and hundreds of other things.  These things matter to me, and they aren’t gettig fixed.  At least Kerry is a change.  More of the same will wreck this country.

I have had the new Zaurus SL-6000L for a few weeks now, and all I can say it is still an amazing chuck of hardware with a killer OS (Linux).  I installed all the applications I had on my old Zaurus in about a day.  It is very snappy and runs well.  I was fiddling with playing movies on there, I will post the command I use in mencoder when I get home.  It plays movies pretty decently.

Hey hey kids, the condo is officially gone!  The new owners closed yesterday, so no more double mortages or stress about when and if the piece o’ crap would sell.  I am so happy to be rid of that dump.  My advice to everyone is never buy a fricken condo.  They suck.  Loud, smelly, and have too many rules.  The association was a bunch of pricks and the assesment was too high.  They have over 160,000 in the bank and could not change the beaten 20 year old carpet in the hall ways.  I love my house, there is nothing like it in the world.  I hope the American Dream can still become a reality when the next generation comes along.  I should be able to actually update the site more often , now that that monkey is off our backs.