Bryan Strawser

I like my iPAQ.  For Mail, a Palm That Gets It. The Palm i705 is a small, light, self-contained organizer that can process e-mail and surf the Web, wirelessly and inexpensively. [The New York Times: Technology]

I am inspired to get out my legos.  http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/

Ugh.  Can you imagine?  Good morning from Amsterdam, where once again I awake happy I am not an accountant that must adhere to something as vague as ‘Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

Gimme a break – we’re not all that stupid.  Not NATty at AT&T Broadband: in the latest move to demonstrate their lack of technical understanding, AT&T Broadband is offering full-price networking gear from Linksys for their customers with NAT disabled. If you want to buy it at full list from AT&T, you have to pay $4.95 per additional machine on your network. The upside: these machines get real, routable IPs. The downside: very, very few consumer machines require static IPs and, in fact, would be better served with nonroutable addresses as the first stage in firewalling themselves. (The second stage would be a personal firewall package like ZoneAlarm for Windows or Intego NetBarrier for Mac.) The AT&T guy quoted in the link above said they typically track problems back to NAT, and they can’t access machines for troubleshooting that are NAT’d. I’d agree with the first point; misconfigured NAT is probably a good reason why machines couldn’t see the Net, but it’s more likely DHCP configuration on the client machine that’s the problem. As for the second, if I were an ISP of any variety, I’d have a simple program for Mac, Windows, and Linux that a user could run at their discretion that would diagnose network ills and, if it could reach a Net (via NAT or not), send some diagnostic information to me. That makes sense. No NAT? Not.

Oh yeah.  Oh yeah.  Though I still like my default Manila theme 😉 Our theme website has a new look and lots of new themes. It’s dual-purpose, with themes for both Manila and Radio.  [Scripting News]

Part Four

We have no intention of imposing our culture…

Evil is real, and it must be opposed.  I am glad to see that we’re willing to take a stand on what’s evil and what’s not.  Bush has clearly drawn a line in the sand and sticks to it.

This will be a decisive decade in the history of liberty..  rarely has the world faced a choice more clear..  we stand for a different choice..  we choose freedom and the dignity of every life.. 

We have known Freedom’s Price…  we will see freedom’s victory…

Part Three

Ok, I’m not into the education thing.  Maybe it’s because I do not have children, but I have alot of difficulty figuring out why we even have a Federal Department of Education, let alone why we’re spending federal tax dollars on Education.

I have a city department of education, I live in the Taunton Regional School District, I have a State Department of Education, and a State Department of Education.

Anyways.

This bill shows what is possible when we set aside posturing and focus on results. I agree.

Some thought it was too big.. Most Americans thought tax relief was just about right..  No, it was way too fucking small (Yes, I said FUCK).  My taxes are out of control.

For the sake of long term growth, let’s make these tax cuts permament.

Shit, let’s cut taxes in half and you figure out what crap we need to stop paying for.  Please please please!

New 401k and pension plan safeguards…  Umm.. please don’t limit my investments…  oh shit, oh shit.. please…  I think he’s going to recommend this..  LET ME DECIDE!

I have stood in awe of the American People..  I thought of myself as a pessimist prior to September 11th, at least in regards to the general citizenry of our country..  I’ve not felt like that since then.. 

A new creed..  Let’s Roll!

A new culture of responsibility..  we want to be a nation that serves goals larger than ourselves.. we have been offered a new opportunity.. and we must take advantage of it..

Interesting call for volunteerism…