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Once again, CBS and Dan Rather shows us again why they can’t be trusted for good news reporting. This draft thing is nothing new, and is only being brought forth by Democrats, just look at who’s introducing these bills in the House and Senate. A draft is not what Bush wants, because the military doesn’t [...]

“You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.” –Jed Babbin, Hardball 1/30/2003

Today I wiped out my entire AIM buddy list without realizing that there was no easy way for re-importing them. Since Gaim doesn’t have an import function, I had to make a script that allows me to re-add them via the gaim-remote uri feature. Here’s the script: blistconv.pl

Hopefully this is useful to someone. To make Mozilla or Firefox pass AIM URIs to Gaim, do this:
As root, create the file /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri with the following contents…
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gaim-remote uri $1

Then make the file executable by running…
chmod 755 /usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri

Close Mozilla/Firefox.

Open your prefs.js file (~/.firefox/default/XXXXXXXX.slt/prefs.js) and enter the follwing at the end of the file…
user_pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.aim”, “/usr/bin/gaim-remote-uri”);

Save prefs.js and [...]

“You ask: What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
If I told you these words were from the mouth of G.W. Bush, many would come up [...]

Just finished watching the premiere episode of CSI: NY, “The Blink”. I’m thoroughly impressed. It’s different from the original CSI series in that it has more of a drama feel to it. Gary Sinise was very good. I thought his performance was moving. So given my positive first impression, it’s now my top-prioritized item on [...]

I finally went to see Garden State last weekend while I was back in Appleton. It wasn’t what I expected. Not that this is a bad thing, I just misread the film somewhat. Natalie Portman’s character was a little more oddball than I imagined. I guess it was more realistic though. The illicit drug theme [...]

w00t! Gaim has hit 1.0! Hmm. I don’t feel any different? :-)
Anyhow, as usual, there appears to be some odd aversion to developers releasing Fedora-compatible RPMs. Maybe I’m missing something, but it’s really quite simple (rpmbuild –rebuild gaim-1.0.0-0.src.rpm). But in the words of Bubba, “I feel your pain”. I hate compiling too. So rejoice! Gaim [...]

I’ve been telling my liberal friends for years that the old media establishment (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, etc.) cannot be trusted for unbiased, credible information. Take for example this 60 Minutes attempted expose of some scandalous documentation, supposedly proving that there were problems with W’s National Guard service. Now it turns out that they [...]

Napoleon Dynamite looks hilarious. Sadly, I have to admit, I can kind of relate to this guy as well :-).
Hopefully I can catch it this next week.