Bert Garcia

The Drudge Report showed us the potential.

The Daily Kos showed us it’s power.

America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

Last night, I watched the Democratic National Convention on C-SPAN.

This was the unfiltered live feed, with no commentators or commercials to speak of. I did flip to CNN and MSNBC to check on their coverage a few times, but I lasted only a few seconds before flipping back to C-SPAN.

There were important speeches given and videos shown last night, with moving, touching moments that were preempted by the major news organizations while they interviewed their so-called experts. Maybe there are those in the populace that need plain English sentences explained to them. Or maybe this nation lacks an attention span, cause sitting through a twenty minute speech is just too much to ask.

Why don’t we just forget about going out to vote in November and just let Wolf Blitzer or Candy Crowley pull the switch for us all, sound like a plan?

Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble

About 6 years ago, I installed Debian on a headless server and have never used any other Linux distribution since on my servers. This headless server started out with “Potato”, I dist-upgraded to “Woody”, then to “Sarge”, and now it’s running “Etch”. Never has this server required me to put a monitor and keyboard on it to diagnose a problem, 6 years of apt-gets and it’s still running strong.

Aside from the software aspect of Debian, there is the feeling of running the last of the true Linux distros. Ubuntu may have the newbie camp locked up, but it’s Debian that users flock to when they’re ready to take off the training wheels. It’s no wonder that Debian is used as the basis for so many Linux distributions today, it just plain works.

Remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality
And dubious integrity

Decided to watch some Olympic coverage last night, I was very disappointed. NBC kept their cameras focused on only two teams in the women’s artistic gymnastics competition, the United States and China. Romania, Russia, Japan, Australia, France and Brazil were completely ignored.

The only time the camera broke away from the cute girls in red, was to follow Phelps in the pool, go USA! Hey, I’m all for cheering your home country, but this is the Olympics, and I want to see the World compete!

Can’t make an omelet without breaking an egg
And I can’t make a headache if I don’t aim at the head
You had enough of their thoughts have your own
Then you wouldn’t have to be such a clone

Gilda, Jane, Chevy, Laraine, Garrett, John and Dan. (SNL 1975)

Chevy: And now, as a public service to those of our viewers who have difficulty with their hearing, I will repeat the top story of the day, aided by the Headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing.

Chevy: Our top story tonight.

Garrett: OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT!

Chevy: Generalissimo Francisco Franco..

Garrett: GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO..!

Chevy: ..is still dead.

Garrett: ..IS STILL DEAD!

Don’t give us none of your aggravation
We had it with your discipline
Saturday Night’s alright for fighting
Get a little action in