Essential Spirit

I’d like to thank all of those who voted for Scott Brown. You’ve done the coura­geous thing by mak­ing sure the rest of the coun­try can­not have a health care sys­tem roughly equiv­a­lent to the one you already enjoy in Massachusetts. Most peo­ple — ordi­nary peo­ple — would not allow them­selves to sim­ply ignore the mon­u­men­tal shame­ful­ness of that. …

Fool Me Once

For any­one who wants to han­dle dynamic DNS (either in con­junc­tion with DHCPd or not) with Bind and absolutely hates the ver­bosity of nsup­date, here’s a shell script which han­dles the common-cases of adding and remov­ing: Forward/reverse entries CNAMEs The com­mand line argu­ments are –k (privkey) –a (action) –h (host­name) –i (ipaddr) –c (cname) –d …

Cynicsm for Fun and Profit

Glenn Greenwald is dis­cussing the stun­ning hypocrisy of Republicans, as they decry the viciously par­ti­san Democrats for out­ing a gay Republican — osten­si­bly because drag­ging per­sonal sex­ual con­duct into pol­i­tics will drive good peo­ple from gov­er­nance. Color me cyn­i­cal, but why is this such a shock? This is the same crowd that spent a large chunk of …