http://www.heckofaworld.com slagheap Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:14:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's face it. Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. I feel kinda sorry for McCain, actually. His party left him out in the cold. At the same time, however, he sold himself out from the man he was in 2000. ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/has-obama-duped-you/ Hulu appears to be down.  Or, rather, it looks like Akamai might be screwing up their dns.  No A record for hulu == bad for business and for my viewing pleasure.  :( Hopefully they've got some black box monitoring that doesn't rely on their own nameservers. rwoodrum@slard:~$ dig www.hulu.com . ; DiG 9.5.0-P2 ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/omg-hulu-down-cant-watch-terminator/ So I just finished cataloguing my first box of Shards of Alara having opened them over the past couple of days with many duels in between.  I bought four boxes from my regular cardboard crack dealer at dogstargames.com - he sells on eBay and directly from his site; his customer ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/shards-of-alara-rare-commons/ So we had a house fire on Friday night.  It's all been a soot ridden blur since then. The house we're living in is absolutely awesome.  It has a magnificent back yard, a great layout, wonderful outside lighting and is just really cool.  I love the huge pine trees, the squirrel's ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/coping-with-a-house-fire/ Buy this album.  Just don't buy it from iTunes. First and foremost, it's a fantastic album.  You should at the very least listen to the self-titled song on Youtube here.  A band that very much deserves a good listen. I originally heard them on XM satellite radio on the way home... on ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/miniature-tigers-tell-it-to-the-volcano/ Q: How do you make a $700+ billion dollar bailout even better? A: Make it an $810+ billion dollar bailout! Yes, that's what our Dear Leaders appear to have done in Congress according to this article on Forbes.  Quite frankly, I'm both ashamed and outraged at the Democratic leadership in the Senate.  ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/bloated-bailout/ With all of the madness of the markets and the Bush Administration's $700 billion (bare minimum, of course) bailout fiasco, CNN reports that the website of the House of Representatives has been overwhelmed.  This is slightly amusing because I actually used the site this past Friday on 20080926 and noticed ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/house-of-representatives-web-infrastructure-not-scalable/ CNN's political ticker reports that McCain has 13 cars and that Democrats are seizing on the opportunity to create much ado about nothing.  By no means construe that sentence to mean that the Republican offal of the world isn't wont to do the same thing. So the "facts" are allegedly that ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/mccains-13-poor-quality-american-cars/ It's people like this guy that make me appreciate the dividend on MCD. http://www.heckofaworld.com/23000-big-macs-in-36-years/ Amazon's Simple Storage Service experienced a fairly hefty outage earlier this year in February and it looks like they're up to it again as I write this post. As seen on the previous link, the S3 service has some great rates. It also happens to have an SLA ... http://www.heckofaworld.com/another-s3-outage/