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First the city of San Francisco was giving away marriage licenses to gay couples, and now Multnomah County (Portland for you folks who don’t live here) is planning on doing the same thing. Meanwhile, Bush is trying to ban gay marriages. This could all prove interesting, come election time.
Update on 3/3: They’re discussing this issue locally in Bend as well.
She’s three years old, and she could fall off a cliff and not feel it:
Gabby Gingras has a disease so rare she’s the only person her parents and doctors can find in the U.S. suffering from it. Like any other three-year-old, Gabby takes her share of slips and falls. Her reaction to each is predictable — at least for her family.
For no matter how hard Gabby hits the ground, she will not shed a single tear. Hard as it is to fathom Gabby Gingras feels no pain. There is no cure, nor will she outgrow it.
Programmers out there will appreciate this:
In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn’t be able to maintain the code!
Priceless.
And it’s for a Baptist Church, of all things. Link via Davezilla, who also links to a pile of other great ones, like Speedo Fart.
Not only is the Pentium Xeon MP getting bumped up to 3.0 ghz, but it’s getting a 4 megabyte L3 cache. However, the thing’s going to run nearly $4,000, while the AMD Opteron can be had for less than half that.
Been a busy day. Finally got my parts and such to build my new server here at work, so I’ve been spending all day troubleshooting it all playing nice with each other, getting the RAID array setup properly, etc… . It’s been a barrel of laughs, let me tell ya, as it’s killed my entire day, and I don’t even have the OS installed. Ugh… .
I am still looking for a few more parts, especially a Slotket (a Pentium III Slot 1 to Socket 370 adapter) that will work in a dual CPU configuration on a Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard. If you have the parts, e-mail me your asking price.
On a related tech note, I’m going to probably be moving Web host companies later this week to hopefully resolve some speed issues that have come about on this site as well as the others I host. I’m also looking into redesigning the template for UtterlyBoring.com to make it a little less of an intensive load, but that’ll probably be coming down the line. I’ll keep you posted.