From an article in the L. A. Times on the conflict; Iman Hamdi, a political scientist at the American University in Cairo:
“The decision by President Bush not to support the Lebanese government’s plea for a cease-fire, even though that government has been backed by the United States, has dealt a further blow to public feelings about the U.S. in the region.
Members of the governing bloc in the Lebanese parliament, led by Saad Hariri, “are the most pro-American Arabs in the Middle East. They have promised, ‘America will protect us if we stand against Syria,’ ” said Joshua Landis, a Middle East expert and professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Now Israel is “blowing the hell out of them, and America isn’t taking one step to protect them,” Landis said. “The whole Arab world is going to look and see that Hariri has been sacrificed on the altar of Israeli power. For the Arabs, this just rips the face of democracy right off.”
Oh joy. (emphasis added)
Continue reading ‘On Hezbollah and Israel’
UPDATE: YAY! Everything should look normal now…
UPDATE: The formatting is all frigged up cause of the percent signs, but no time to fix it now…
So, I wrote this nifty little script that automatically tars and bzips a file on a remote (shared locally) volume (that is mounted as a mapped network drive) and names the file with the current date. The backups are stored in the shared directory, but the script doesn’t include past backup files in the archive. (Why are my backups 500mb? Ohhhhh….). It then copies the remote backup to a backups folder on my machine for extra safety. I was very proud when this worked! 
Just modify the file with the directories you want backed up and where and save it as a .bat file. Then double click it and voila!
So here it is, shared under GNU Open Source license or whatever:
set DATESTR=%DATE:~-10%
bsdtar -c -j -f Z:\Backups\backup_%DATESTR:/=-%.bz2 --exclude backup_* Z:\
copy Z:\Backups\backup_%DATESTR:/=-%.bz2 C:\Backups\
The script makes an archive of everything in the Z:\ drive (which is a mapped remote volume) excluding files beginning with backup_. The archive is made in the Z:\Backups directory with the name backup_mo-da-yr.bz2 where mo-da-yr is the date in the indicated format. Then the archive is copied to the C:\Backups\ folder.
Any suggestions on how to improve it, or praises for my ingenuity would be welcomed with open ears.
A heartwarming blog post found via Blabbermouth from artist and metalhead Timothy Bradstreet’s blog about his early years as a persecuted artist (we’ve all heard the story) complete with happy ending. Nice to hear this old tale with a metal twist!
From Democratic Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware regarding the administration’s military tribunal system and congress’ pending legislation on the matter:
“I find it difficult for us to buy in to the notion that let’s just trust the president’s judgment,’’ Mr. Biden said. “God love him, his judgment has been terrible.’’
(from this article in today’s New York Times)
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