Bidding war

Earth to BEA management:

You can't have a bidding war when there's only one bidder.

BEA management may have blown it

That palm tree's not looking too happy

Ashes

This is another of those "I almost lived a block away from there" stories, which are making me feel more and more lucky that I moved to this house instead of one of the other choices, which also included this lovely location in La Jolla.

Rancho Santa Fe, off La Soldadera. The entire canyon all the way down Del Dios Highway to here pretty much looks like the moon, for miles.

Use one of these solutions

My favorite use of sarcastic quotation marks today comes from Apple. (If you're about to install Leopard, it is actually good to check whether you're affected by this now, and save yourself some grief. I already uninstalled APE from my machine.)

You may have third-party "enhancement" software installed that does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Use one of these solutions.

Full article is here: Mac OS X 10.5: "Blue screen" appears after installing Leopard and restarting

Siracusa on Leopard

John Siracusa's extremely detailed review of Mac OS X Leopard is out. Whether you agree with him or not, there's certainly a lot to think about in here. I haven't actually gotten my copy yet, although I'm expecting to install it this week. (And after reading his review, I have this odd combination of enthusiasm about trying it out, and desire to wait for a year or so to see if they fix any of the new problems -- not sure what to do with that... )

Just wow.

I don't know what to say about this. Wow.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071026-01
October 26, 2007

Iraqi Army at Besmaya Installation Support San Diego Fire Victims
By U.S. Army Sgt 1st Class Charlene Sipperly
Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq Public Affairs

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Members of the Iraqi Army in Besmaya collected a donation for the San Diego, Calif., fire victims Thursday night at the Besmaya Range Complex in a moving ceremony to support Besmaya's San Diego residents.

Iraqi Army Col. Abbass, the commander of the complex, presented a gift of $1,000 to U.S. Army Col. Darel Maxfield, Besmaya Range Complex officer in charge, Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq, to send to the fire victims in California.

The money was collected from Iraqi officers and enlisted soldiers in Besmaya. In a speech given during the presentation, Col. Abbass stated that he and the Iraqi soldiers were connected with the American people in many ways, and they will not forget the help that the American government has given the Iraqi people. Abbass was honored to participate by sending a simple fund of $1,000 to the American people in San Diego, to lower the suffering felt by the tragedy.

The Roman tribunes never tried this one

Governor creates a 3.86% tax increase out of thin air that was never passed by the legislature -- by using his veto pen.

'Frankenstein veto' debate gets new life

Madison - Gov. Jim Doyle's use of his veto power to kill specific words and numbers, and then stitch the remaining fragments together to create something that never passed the Legislature, rekindled the Capitol fight over what has come to be known as "Frankenstein veto" authority - and whether it should be repealed.

Not going to find bad news here

St. Isaac Jogues

I first learned about him while visiting the shrine in Auriesville years ago. The harrowing story is here.

More about smoke

http://www.sdapcd.org/air/smoke/smoke1.html