Chicago Eat Your Heart Out

It seems that New York tops out Chicago again, although this may not be something to brag about. It seems that this years RNC is the most publicly protested convention ever, and has already tallied at least 1500 arrests since the protests began Sunday. It has also been reported that protesters have somehow gained access to the floor of the convention; those who made it in were promptly arrested and escorted out. There was another protestor who sprinted towards a TV crew screaming, "remember abu grahib!" while they were broadcasting live.

The two conventions are night & day in comparison. The DNC in Boston had very little protesting of any sort, and certainly not any directly towards Kerry (the swiftboat allegations came at a later time). However it seems as though all the protesting is not helping Kerry in the polls at all, but the republicans thus far have lacked firepower. Their desperate hopes of parlaying their popularity by holding the convention in NYC so close to the memorial of September 11 is as transparent a stunt as the alleged "republican moderates" that have appeared thus far.

Oh, and that speech by Laura Bush last night was as phony as her smile. I couldn’t stomach much of it, and changed it to finish up watching a mindless action movie.

Lets shift gears here:

Let me start with this; be considerate to your fellow co-workers if you decide to pop popcorn in the microwave in the break room. The smell of bagged, buttered, microwaved popcorn can linger for quite sometime - but especially so when it is burned. If that wasn’t enough, a second bag had to be prepared layering the putrid smells on top of each other. Did I mention that my office is across the hall from the break room? Yea it sucks.

I was also trying to figure out how to authenticate a user name and password against a Novell Network with out the use of LDAP. After several failed attempts the head of the IT department called up and said that he didn't care if we tried it out. Such a waste of time, although there is no guarantee that this will work either.