Doug's Dynamic Drivel

You know sometimes I get these dark thoughts. Sometimes I lose track of my political weathervane and start thinking like a conservative. Aye, dark, stormy thoughts indeed. Oh, I always come to my senses eventually and see the light but there are moments, scary moments, when I think I’m going to slide down into that [...]

Dave Pollard writes today on rooftop gardening as away of bringing the produce closer to the consumer and making cities self-sufficient (a friend was telling me awhile back that the amount of produce you could grow hydroponically in a couple of dozen 60 story “office” towers is staggering). Now Dave is fast on his [...]

This server has only been online a couple of days and already my error logs are full of lines indicating someone trying to exploit the server. Of the last 300 entries about 90% are attempts to exploit both of these known exploits
[Wed Jul 13 13:23:35 2005] [error] [client 207.216.132.222] File does not exist: /home/rileycat/public_html/v4/IUIDENT.CAB
and
[Wed Jul [...]

In an act of utter desperation, no doubt with the intention of seizing Canada’s oil reserves, US forces invaded Canada today.
It’s rumored that Donald Rumsfeld was involved in setting troop levels. Current commitments overseas had no part in determining the necessary troop levels he is reported to have said. Relying on impeccable [...]