This Space for Rent

The year in first sentences

When the year rolls over, the poor weblog gets terribly confused about the previous month and all the posts just *poof* go away to hide in the archive pages. Postoffice has been pushed up to version 1.1.4, which documents the new virtual host code, cleans up some of the internal logging, and relaxes a lot of the paranoia around MAIL FROM: when the from address is on a virtual host. Silas and his eyePod. The first thing to do when you get in to work is to drink lots of tea. Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains! The state of Illinois is in the throes of passing a law that make it illegal to sell "violent" and sexually explicit videogames to minors, but conveniently leaves it up to the stores to determine which games are too violent or sexually explicit. An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof; and for Purposes connected therewith. My supertrivial carpentry project for the day today is a second workbench for the basement. "If enough water from Lake Pontchartrain topped the levee system along its south shore, the result would be apocalyptic." Google seems to have decided that picking images out of the actual page that they've come from is too much trouble. According to a front page story in the Clackamas Portland Tribune, the City of Portland is thinking of scrapping one of the nasty little property tax abatement programs which allows rich developers to make more buckets of money while forcing people who don't live in the beloved-by-the-damned-PDC trendy districts to pay for the civic services that are needed to support the new condominium towers. "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true."