Rainy Christmas in the west

December 25, 2003

Back in Indian Springs for the first holiday in more than a decade. Rain is coming in fits and starts. Stepping off the plane in Las Vegas yesterday it was actually cooler than when we left Denver. A beautiful and quiet day. The last of the leaves are being blown from the nearly barren trees. Holiday greetings are being sent.

Merry Christmas everyone

December 24, 2003

Paraphrasing Dickens' Tiny Tim: "Merry Christmas, everyone." Christmas morning has already made it's way to Australia and New Zealand among others. Having always celebrated Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere thoughts of going to the beach for Christmas are still a little hard to reconcile. It's been a long year with many sad times and many times to celebrate. As we gather with family for the holidays, listen to beautiful music, and share special times with friends there will be so very much to remember. Christmas will take me to the family homestead for the first time in many years.

The value of orange

December 22, 2003

This morning on a Search and Rescue mailing list we recieved the following message:

FYI . . I have an defective orange jacket made by Blauer that I needed to replace, seems they are not making the jackets in orange any more? Below is the information that Blauer sent to me why orange is not longer available

In 2004, Orange will not be an ANSI certified color by OSHA. This means
that the uniform manufacturers have already done as we have and eliminated this color from most of their lines. REASON BEING THAT 17% OF THE POPULATION IS COLOR BLIND AND CANNOT SEE THE ORANGE COLOR.

Interesting, my dog's shabrack is orange, guess they will have to hear her coming? Most of my jackets are orange also. Will be interesting to see if they change hunters clothing???

Ninth Circuit rules against administration

December 18, 2003

"...[W]e simply cannot accept the government's position that the Executive Branch possesses the unchecked authority to imprison indefinitely any persons, foreign citizens included, on territory under the sole jurisdiction and control of the United States, without permitting such prisoners recourse of any kind to any judicial forum, or even access to counsel, regardless of the length or manner of their confinement.

A portion of the decision handed down today by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the confinement of enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.The

Using Proxy.pac in OS X 10.3.2

December 18, 2003

Having downloaded OS X 10.3.2 today here is how to setup a proxy.pac file.

  1. Go to the System Preferences
  2. Select the Network panel
  3. Select the connection you want to edit and the network port you are wanting to edit.
  4. Select Proxies from the right tab at the top of the window
  5. Scroll to the bottom and select "Automatic Proxy Configuration"
  6. Enter the address of your proxy.pac configuration file (usually something like (http://servername.com/proxy.pac).

Pages

Subscribe to