Misc. Ramblings

Aloha, Earthlings. NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu is aboard the International Space Station and blogging his experiences here. There's also a link to a photo gallery here which is where the image below comes from. The pic shows what appears to be an IBM laptop running Windows and Godzilla about to eat Asia. Wait! Godzilla? Asia? Run! Run for your lives!

Earth to Lingle. The governor of Hawai'i, Linda Lingle released a press statement yesterday saying she won't be vetoing part of the Judiciary's budget after all. The reason? Because her Attorney General let her know that the Hawai'i Constitution embodies the concept of separation of powers.

As such, the Governor does not run the Judiciary. Neither does she control the Judiciary's budget. Obviously, this was news to her. One can but only wonder at what else she is unaware of. What else doesn't she know about the very basic foundations of our constitution? The mind boggles. Is this the type of change she said she was bringing to government?

FR24 Update. I forgot to mention I had additional problems with the Hawking Technology FR24 Dual WAN Router I've been using. I thought all my problems were solved by disabling their DHCP and using static internal IP addresses. But no. There's more. Even with that change, the router got into a fault state that even unplugging it did not help. I don't know what happened as all was going well until the WAN1 input, the RoadRunner modem went down (this is not unusual, which is why I have the backup, but slower Verizon ADSL). Instead of automatically switching to WAN2, the status light glowed red. I was not able to reset the router because it would not respond to any input while in this state.

The problem persisted until WAN1 came back up. All I can say is when it works, it works well. But when it doesn't, it doesn't at all. Still Not Recommended. I guess I'll have to save my pennies and buy the Nexland.

Step Into Liquid Update. I forgot to mention one of the comments of an interviewee in the surfing movie clip mentioned yesterday. Paraphrasing from memory: "Hang out with old guys and you are going to look good [in comparison to them]." ;) In addition, fellow Daynoter Phil Hough mentioned MS wasn't kidding when they said what the minimum system requirements were for viewing the clips. And finally, I noticed on the DVD sampler I got from MS that the content expires in 60 days. Sigh. I assume MS Mediaplayer will enforce the digital rights of the content. I'll let you know in 59 days.

Aloha!