As of earlier today, we are officially guest-less, and I am not sick. This will be the first extended period of time since mid-December that I haven’t had one of those two in my life. No, I don’t mind the guests … in fact, I thoroughly enjoyed having everybody (which is a good thing, since next week my brother will be here). What this means is that hopefully over this weekend I’ll catch up on a few things that I got behind on, and be able to resume daily postings … and take some more photos as well. I’ve already got some good ideas …

What Is This Mess?
You've stumbled upon my mixed bag of ramblings about economics, politics, news, human stupidity, programming, and geeky stuff in general ... all from the perspective of somebody who scored as a 100% libertarian on the Nolan Chart.
I'm a Chattanooga resident, Web developer, Mac user, and amateur photographer who really likes taking pictures at night. I'm a Krystal Lover! I (used to) drink too much Coke, and own a General Electric refrigerator from the late forties. I'm currently servinc as the Chair of the Hamilton County Libertarian Party, President of ChattaMac (our local Mac Users Group), and I organize a PHP Developer's Group locally.
To find out more about the refrigerator (or to chat about anything you read on here), email me at j.clifton@four-eight-four.org.
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- Photographs (133)
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- Politics & Other Objectionable Subjects (84)
- Railroad Stuff (8)
- Reflections (5)
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- @n00tz I should sue myself for distributing all these PHP files that I wrote myself. :-) in reply to n00tz 12 hrs ago
- Rats, forgot I'm on BellSouth DSL now. Sorry, Commiecast, Obviously not your fault. What up, AT&T? 12 hrs ago
- Suddenly having lots of trouble keeping an active FTP connection. Have had to restart my xfer three times now. What up, Comcast? 12 hrs ago
- RT: @drjjoyner Fed may cut rates again: http://tinyurl.com/5qbh79 ... I'm thinking ... how low can they go? Not much room left. 13 hrs ago
- @cmcgrath Understandable. MSSQL actually has a fairly nice management console (or whatever it's called) ... or at least it did 6-7 years ago in reply to cmcgrath 13 hrs ago
- @cmcgrath On the Mac though, I use Navicat. Will give Aqua Data Studio a look though. in reply to cmcgrath 13 hrs ago
- @cmcgrath I don't use it myself; was setting it up for someone else. For web-based stuff, I like phpMinAdmin better. http://piurl.com/nJ4 in reply to cmcgrath 13 hrs ago
- @cmcgrath Actually, the configuration files for phpMyAdmin are fairly un-elegant. There's something I can complain about! in reply to cmcgrath 13 hrs ago
- @cmcgrath Oh, nothing in particular. I've never really liked it, but it does do the job. At the moment was having http auth issues. in reply to cmcgrath 13 hrs ago
- @joelance That's sad. It's unfortunate that people still fall for that stuff ... in reply to joelance 14 hrs ago
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All of the following are either organizations I'm involved with or the businesses of my personal friends.
Chattanooga Association of Information Technology Professionals
Birth Wellness Midwifery Care of Chattanooga
Mac Users of Chattanooga, Unite!
Chattanooga UNIX, GNU, And Linux Users Group (CHUGALUG)
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN
JiffySlides of Wilmington, NC - Slide & Film Scanning and Digitization
Jonathan Swanson - Wilmington, NC Real Estate
Promotional Products from BuyPromosOnline.com
Wake Forest Coins
Winn Portrait Studio - Ned & Brett Winn





Actually, your Dad and I need to come back to look at a couple of houses. We’ll see you mid-afternoon today. Well, maybe not, just kidding.