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LOOK YOU JERK, I WANT THE SUPPORT I PAID FOR. Oh yeah, I’m not paying. In other words, no Cuzco Xmas vids until I figure out how to manually add a file to gallery.

Whaaa? You mean they were wrong? That’s sooo surprising: US gives up search for Iraq WMD

The iPod shuffle is tempting, but it is hard to say how much I would miss the screen. Custom programs are one of the things that makes the iPod desirable. 12h battey time is a bit lame as well. The iriver players crank out over 30, and they have screens and FM tuners built in.

For all you iTunes people, Apple also broke Hymm, the anti-DRM utility.

The city of San Diego will pay a $25,000 fine to the state government for waiting nearly a month to alert regulators to a potential health hazard in the city drinking water system. And that’s why I buy Pureflo water.

I won’t shed any tears about this: End Looming for San Diego’s Master-Planned Communities

San Diego drivers are some of the most zombie drivers I have seen, so learning that San Diego has the 3rd highest pedestrian fatality rate in the nation is hardly surprising. The bike rate can’t be much better.

I’ve never had it, but I suddenly want Paan after reading this.

Gallery

I finally got around to upgrading gallery. They added some stuff which freaked a bit on my config, but I eventually got it all going. They added RSS feeds, but I’m not sure how useful that will be. I usually only update in big batches anyway.

I’ve been trying to upload some videos from my camera of the christmas day celebrations in Cuzco. I managed to get one up, but the others are 10 and 15 MB, and I have been learning that while the php upload_max_filesize is set to 20 MB, the post_max_size is only 8 MB. So I can’t upload them until 1&1 increases this for me. Will they? Probably not. But I can’t bad mouth 3 years of free service, can I?

I tried using Windows Movie Maker to edit the file sizes down a bit, but it is crap. Everything it re-encodes looks like crap. Considering that I am only dealing with camera movie files, I can’t imagine anyone using it to work with their home videos. I suspect I have to export it to a raw file, work with that, then re-encode and deal with the loss of quality.

Rain and social ineptitude

More rain in San Diego.. Feels very strange to have a week of rain.

The Pentagon is debating whether to set up elite hit-squads to target leaders of the Iraq insurgency in a new strategy based on tactics used against leftist guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago. Unbelievable. It is pretty hard to believe there are people out there that think what the US did in Central and South America was a good thing.

If you had any doubts, the Hindu caste system is still crap: Low caste survivors denied food and water

Bayard Foreign Marketing is the newest owner of a U.S.-registered Gulfstream V executive jet reportedly used since Sept. 11, 2001, to transport suspected Al Qaeda operatives to countries such as Egypt and Syria, where some of them claim to have later been tortured.

A new generation of children is growing up as “life incompetents”, unable to sew, care for their clothes, or even realize that potatoes are boiled before being mashed. Interesting article about social ineptitude in the UK, but it is an issue for western countries. I grew up with parents that put me to work, so I couldn’t really claim ignorance when I went out on my own. I think something like my grade 8 (or 8th grade, depending on where you live) experience should be widespread. It was mandatory that everyone try 2 weeks of each offered elective. So everyone that went through that system had to learn to do things like sew a shirt, make meals, fix things in shop, draw, paint, & sculpt.

Photos of Peru, INS fun

Posted photos of Peru, will be some time before I can comment on them all though. Why? The pile of work waiting for me when returning from vacation is a bit harsher than usual this time. We start to file my papers for residency this month. I get to fill out all sorts of nice forms:

I-130 Petition for relative
– with a G-325A for each of us
Then the I-485, which also requires:
– G-325A for me
– I-693, medical inspection (nevermind I’ve been here for 3 years)
– I-864, Anna gets to prove she can take care of me
– I-765, request to work while apps are pending
– I-131, request to travel while apps are pending

The work and travel ones aren’t necessary, but since it can take 3-20 months, it might just be a good idea. I am getting acquainted with legalese before doing my taxes this year.. Though I doubt it will help any. Telefile here I come.