Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
seaton-newslinks. USA expat in Europe ++
bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
....
abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
blogspot
ourtomorrow
politickybitch
welcome-to-pottersville
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush +
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
halcyondays ++
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
maru
om
boxspinning boxes

jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
maruthecrankpot +
indymedia melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
politicalhumor +
raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
Energring
aliveinbaghdad ++
riverbendblog ++
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
allhatnocattle
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
gbruno ++YT
axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
dahrjamailiraqhref="http://www.dailykos.com/
davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
rall ++ Ted Rall cartonist
ratical
redpepper
rense
robert
rollingstone
scoop
selvesandothers ++
smirkingchimp
snappingturtle
socialistworker
spiked
tblog
theiraqiroulette
theleftcoaster +
thepoorman +
tnr ++ magazine
tompaine ++ mag
traprockpeace ++
truthout +
boondocks ++
crowning3
. . . helix
Base
rain radar
Weather
worldtribunal +
worldwatch ++ $ required
zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
.............
blogads liberal blogs by CPM $ per view
malakandsky ++ stolid?
republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
workingforchange +
leftinthewest +
dembloggers +
talkingpointsmemo +
firedoglake ++
vastleft ++
pamspaulding +
americablog +
washingtonmonthly ++
mydd +
politics1 +
bartcop ++
politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb

......
almuajaha defunct
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
samadams dormant
mquinn02 defunct
iraqblogcount ++14Apr06 suspended
iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
georgemustgo + moved?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
hammeroftruth quiescant?
mediastorm quiescant? +
bushwhackedusa defunct
hamasonline defunct
4Jul06

30 September 2005

Wireless in Java

Computer Stories
Finally got the Hills Antenna hoisted (16db grid, around $120) . Unwired now green lighted and coming down fast.
Cat 5 cables draped all over the new office. Internet now at least as fast as Mort Bay, where we were in line of site to Unwired ,and our 1M account often came down over 100K bytes/second (Using of course, that racehorse DownloadExpress)
Oddly we could NOT get "Straight through" connection working last night, we only got IP with the router on. Thats a mystery, and without straight through we cant use the metering software from Unwired or Navini.
The boss plans to trash the Navini router and get a Belkin router, in the hope that our Belkin radio cards will work. I pleaded with him to trash the Belkin cards instead, Forum scuttlebutt has it that the current Belkin chipset wont work with Linux.
- we shall see. Right now the Belkin cards see signal, but no internet...

Software woes: I'm writing Java using Borland JBuilder because 1)I have a sentimental attachment to Borland, TurboPascal in the early 80s was sub $50 and brought programming to the masses 2)JBuilder is the only cheap software I can find that has data-linked fields. ie the IDE has drag-n-drop fields that connect to a database with a Next-Prev-Save button bar, no user coding required!
Who else does this cheaply? All the Eclipse crew are still bespoke wheel re-inventors.
Anyway JBuilder9 was cheap and worked OK with mySQL on Wind98. BUT on Wind2000 with JB2005 mySQL works within the IDE but the standalone Java jar cant find the JDBC driver. The mySQL forums say "go ask Borland" , Borland forums say "go ask mySQL"
- deadlock! So I decide to convert to Firebird database which is the OpenSource incarnation of InterBase, a venerable old database which Borland bought some time back, so it oughta work with JB. Which it does, but the "Standard" SQL datatypes differ somewhat, and at the moment I'm grappling with weird messages:'

rdh DataSet has no unique row identifiers.
Note: For QueryDataSets you need to disable metaDataUpdate.ROWID in the MetaDataUpdate property, in addition to setting the RowId property on a column. error code 37
rdh Missing or invalid characters in field error code 1011
rdh Missing or invalid characters in field error code 1011

["rdh" is my label for DataSetException.addExceptionListener(new rdh(this)); , so I know its a DataSetException
but not exactly where...]
Problems, not insoluable i trust. The Firebird Forums are helpful, but I dont want to deluge with a pile of newbie questions,
so I await the Amazon airmail book...Firebird comes without a complete document set, you have to pay.]

On closer inspection, downloaded Java5 from Sun 134Meg at 24,000 Bytes/sec
which is very slow. Admittedly I was surfing at the same time, but its still disapointing.
I now believe Mort Bay was early days at Unwired. It seems the 1Megbit account may not be close to 1Meg download...


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cccCan I encourage someone to kill this guy?
I forget his name, but he's a redneck zionist journo. I promise to drive over him until his skull pops, if I ever see him in my town

28 September 2005

Nuclear Hawke, Giant squid seen

Seen on teev: Old Silver Bodgie, Hawkie, was drunkenly spruiking Aus a repository for Nookula waste, muttering some incomplete sentence about the Aborigines wouldnt mind...
Obviously the Nookula industry has slipped Bob a few bob to boost this farcical idea. As Mark Latham said, its a bit late to be worried about what Hawkie says.

Something that slipped under even my piercing radar was the "Inherently Safe Reactor" design using graphite balls. I failed to twig the obvious until it was pointed out recently: Graphite catches fire (Anyone remember Ukranian wormwood?, the explosion that cost Ukraine more than the total value of all electricity produced by all Soviet nuclear reactors?)
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Ogasawara Whale-Watching Association has photos of Architeuthis dux (Proceedings of the Royal Society B), the giant squid
- a baby at 26 feet, but this will annoy kiwis, who expected to get the first pictures using squirts of minced gonads as attractant

27 September 2005

And...Loving it

In honour of Maxwell Smart
cyberdissidents Tor, a relatively new system that provides a high degree of anonymity for websurfing.... Each request made through an onion routing network goes through two to 20 additional computers, making
it hard to trace what computer originated a request. Each step of the Onion Routing chain is encrypted..

cccwheres the stuff Kate?
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cccdotty head fast 3d images
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happy 7th google
why can.t I google "aesthetics cargo pants"
- I want to replace my pants got from Bondi Junction a few years ago.