John Joseph Bachir’s blog
County school officials are backing a principal’s decision to bar a picture of a lesbian student dressed in a tuxedo from the high school yearbook.
[snip]
His decision was debated Thursday at a Clay County school board meeting that drew 200 people, but the board took no action, and Superintendent David Owens said the decision will stand.
Here’s what what one Karen Gordon said in defense of the principal’s decision:
When uniformity is compromised, then authority no longer holds.
Here is a problem I’ve been struggling with for weeks. If you know the solution, I will give you $150. If you point me somewhere else where I find the solution, I will give you $50.
The environment:
What works: I have successfully created a vpn connection between a remote machine and the office network. While connected I can ping and ssh onto machines on the office network using their local addresses. I can even use the OS X Server administration tools, Server Admin and Workgroup Manager.
What doesn’t work:
CONCLUSION: the VPN is essentially acting as an encrypted port forwarder, but my presence on the office network is still that of an Internet IP.
(updated to simplify some language and remove irrelevent symptoms)
Allright, here is a brand new rough cut, and i’m particularly pleased with it. Tell all your friends.
I think I’ve met this ibiblian, jeff. He blogged my contribution at the bloggers conference:
John Bachir speaks: this is so great, the cameraman making a contribution to the conversation. Talk about participatory media. Gillmor makes the same observation: “that was very bloggish.”
If you are wondering, I proposed that it doesn’t matter if we can change commercial media, because the phenomenon of blogging is not more power but instead an entirely new information economy, where certain factors of current commercial media become irrelevant.
And if you are wondering, no one really addressed my point, alas.
(or maybe i didn’t notice. i missed a lot of the conference because i was focusing on camera work :-) )
(or maybe everyone was so blown away by the fact that the cameraman was speaking that they couldn’t pay attention to what i was saying. leave it to me to make the unintentional meta-contribution…)
Dan Gillmor was in the area for the Triangle Bloggers Conference put on by ibiblio, where I work. Paul hooked me up with the opportunity to interview him. The interview went really well, we covered a wide range of topics including if google should be open sourced, copyright law, corporate executive compensation culture, and the quality of television news. The when and where of the interview was up in the air until the last moment, so I had to set up for it in a hurry and I’m not very pleased with the lighting or camera angle. But I am quite pleased with the interview itself. Much thanks to Dan for staying 15 minutes past what we had planned, that ended up being probably the best parts of the interview.
It will hopefully be up quite soon, possible on a new, yet to be named interview-oriented website. (anyone have any ideas? how about interviews.jjb.cc?)
At the request of some folks at the Triangle Bloggers Conference, I am posting the interview with the communist. This was done on the day that we were doing casual interviews on the street, with protesters and pedestrians alike. This gentlemen took us pretty seriously though.
Another week, another cut. I removed the communist interview from the beginning and replaced it with the “street conflict” that used to be at the end. I think these changes do a lot for the film.
February 11 Rough Cut (372 MB)
Feedback I’d like on this cut: tell me at what times during the film you were confused by something because you didn’t have context. In these places I can put up a title card explaining the situation, or anything else that might be suggested to me by you, my loyal reviewers.
Thanks!
Thus self-preservation, and the propagation of the species, are the great ends which Nature seems to have proposed in the formation of all animals. Mankind are endowed with a desire of those ends, and an aversion to the contrary; with a love of life, and a dread of dissolution; with a desire of the continuance and perpetuity of the species, and with an aversion to the thoughts of its intire extinction. But though we are in this manner endowed with a very strong desire of those ends, it has not been intrusted to the slow and uncertain determinations of our reason, to find out the proper means of bringing them about. Nature has directed us to the greater part of these by original and immediate instincts. Hunger, thirst, the passion which unites the two sexes, the love of pleasure, and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply those means for their own sakes, and without any consideration of their tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of nature intended to produce by them.
-from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith
Discuss.
Got this strange little error messages while generating a htaccess password:
htpasswd: could not determine temp dir
Thank god for google. A search for the exact string brought only two pages of hits, but this one had the answer.
Even better, I have no idea what apr is or why it was causing the problem, but up2date is already a black box convenience in my mind, so all I had to do was nudge “apr” into that same realm and let #up2date apr loose on a production machine. The problem was immediately fixed.
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