Yesterday I had planned to drive up to mom’s for dinner. In fact, I even got halfway there, but that’s when I ran into some weather problems. When I left home, the weather was pretty good, but when I got past Forest Lake on the freeway, suddenly I was in blowing snow that made driving pretty hairy. I called mom, and the snow was coming down even harder at her place, and she told me to turn around and head home.
On the way back, it seemed as though the line where the snow started really hadn’t moved much. Not too surprising since very little time had passed, but when I got home and looked at the weather radar, there was a C-shaped loop of snow around Minneapolis. And as I looked out the window during the day, that continued until after I went to bed. Looking back at the radar archive (there’s the reason I have that weather link at the bottom of each day), I noticed that it wasn’t until about 11PM that the snow had finally reached Minneapolis, even though mom continued getting snowed on the entire time.
Anyway, I guess one of my tasks this morning is going to be heading outside and shoveling the couple inches that fell here. There’s supposed to be more during the day, but I’ve found that getting out there first thing in the morning helps a lot since it keeps any overnight accumulation from getting packed down into ice by people walking to work or school in the morning. Just one more joy of being a homeowner.
- Inspector Says WMD Are Vaporware, or rather that there was no new WMD development in Iraq after the 1991 war. There’s also growing evidence of an array of vendors of WMD technology, and a growing admission that some earlier intelligence reports may have overestimated the ability of Iraq to continue developing WMD. But in an interesting devlopment from last week, David Kay also said that Saddam's WMD hidden in Syria. So perhaps the reason they can’t be found in Iraq is that they were moved over the border. But that story seems to be getting a lot less press. [instapundit]
- Sp@m ShEn@nig@nS!!: That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be Good News as it points out how desperate spammers are to try and slip something (even if it’s nonsense) past ever-improving filters.
- With This Law, You Can Spam, and that’s got a number of people criticizing the CAN-SPAM act. At this point, I don’t think the governement will be any more able to stop spam than they have been able to stop telemarketers or junk faxes. Any solution we see will probably be technological.
- Here’s a good (and long) look at The Tyranny of Copyright by the New York Times. I don't have an answer to all the problems, but I think that the current copyright term of “as long as Disney wants” is too long. Heck, a fourteen year copyright on Mead Made Easy would be plenty for me.
- Linux Code Red is a good explanation of the whole problem with the “new SCO” (as opposed to the group who actually wrote some Unix code) and gives some background about Darl McBride. There’s also explanation of why SCO thinks they deserve money from people using Linux, and why just about everyone else believes SCO is either lying or confused. [slashdot]