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…read this article, “Iraq is no Vietnam”. It’s short and sweet, and the quotes from soldiers in Iraq (in response to ‘Today” show Matt Lauer’s trolling for despair) paint an inspiring picture.
Some time ago I announced my candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Obviously, the announcement was tongue-in-cheek, even if the few items I outlined in my “platform” were not. Well, recent events have led me to reconsider an entrance into politics — I’ve taken what I feel is a more grounded approach (although I’m sure some would argue that statement) and decided to focus on my home state first. I am at this point researching what is involved with becoming a candidate for the Georgia State House of Representatives; I’ll keep the blog updated if anything develops ;)
In the meantime, I have begun work on a first draft of my platform — I’d like my candidacy to be marked by as much documentation on as many of my positions as possible, all easily available to the “public” (all 12 or so that might care). I welcome comments, particularly if you think I’ve left out an overview of my thoughts on a topic that you think is important. If/when I ever upgrade to the newest Wordpress (blog) engine, I’ll make these platform points into a more permanent “page” instead of a post that will eventually slip off the front page.
Israel’s whole wall idea sounds a bit better after perusing this list…
emthree.org has moved!
There was some brief downtime over the weekend for various pieces of the site (the gallery, the wedding blog), but all in all it was a pretty smooth transition. That’s not to say, however, that my old hosting provider didn’t try to screw me one last time — namely by creating a “full backup” of my old site’s directory tree that had the last 3-6 characters trimmed off of nearly every filename for nearly every picture in almost every photo album in the gallery. But now it matters not; emthree prevailed. The blog abides.
This new hosting service, lunarpages.com, tossed us a few configuration headaches along the way, but nothing extraordinary — just your run-of-the-mill differences to be expected while migrating from one hosting service to another. Thankfully, lunarpages has something (lots of things, actually) my previous service doesn’t: a huge support community and excellent online documentation — and, based on the flurry of emails I received within five minutes of signing up, at least a decent (albeit automated) help ticket system. My old hosting service, ehostdepot.com, served me well at first (after luring me in by promising HUGE storage capacities and ROCK-BOTTOM prices!!!) — and then quickly slipped off the edge into the yawning abyss of we-have-your-money-why-should-we-support-you-now — managed to NEVER get my email forwarders to work (seriously, how frickin hard is THAT to do?!) and/or ignored all of my help requests about it. They now have permission to osculate my entire posterior. I am free.
[Belated snaps to Chap, who is a lunarpages customer himself — and who recommended them to me, many moons ago]
After many requests and much offline ranting, I have relented: pics of Zoe (that’s “ZOE-ee”, by the way), our 11 week old female miniature dachshund puppy, are online. 
She’s a dappled dachshund, just like our older dog, Ernie — except Zoe’s mom was also a dapple, and a double-dapple at that. Other than that minor difference, she and Ernie are just alike — especially in their absolute dedication to mischief and tomfoolery. And the way they wrestle… to the unaccustomed observer it would sound like they were hellbent on tearing one another’s throat out :D
BONUS: Act now, and you can download a 1 minute long video clip (AVI format) of Zoe and Ernie wrestling! Don’t delay — download today! (34MB zip)
