Top 10 Reasons to oppose the 700 Billion Dollar Bailout.

- Taken from www.nowallstreetbailout.com - Visit the site and sign the petition.

1. It costs $700 billion dollars, which is as much money as the combined annual budgets of the Departments of Defense, Education and Health and Human Services. It amounts to $2,300 for every man, woman, and child in America.

2. This $700 billion will all be borrowed money. The plan raises the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. That is $11,300,000,000,000.

3. It gives Sec. Henry Paulson, formerly the head of Goldman Sachs, the power to buy assets from his former firm with no court or administrative oversight.

4. Goldman Sachs, like many Wall Street firms, gave its CEO a $67.9 million bonus last year. That is more than 1,400 times what the median American earns. Yet the plan has no provision to cap salaries or reduce bonuses at Wall Street banks that take taxpayer money.

5.The bailout has a "reverse dutch auction" format that allows Wall Street firms to set the price taxpayers will pay.

6.The 5 companies managing the bailout auction are also Wall Street firms, and will likely receive billions of tax dollars in fees.

7. The plan buys "troubled assets" from foreign banks.

8. The plan hurts responsible U.S. banks by keeping reckless, insolvent investment banks in business.

9. The idea that taxpayers will make money is a fraud. If a profit was possible, private speculators would readily buy these "troubled assets." Instead, the bailout lets Wall Street push its losses on the taxpayer.

10. The plan violates basic principles of American capitalism by creating a system of "private profits, socialized losses."

iPhone 2.1

Wow. I don't know if this was an intended affect or not, however my iPhone made it through the entire weekend only using 40 percent of the battery. Pretty awesome. I usually could only make it from a Friday charge to about Saturday night, early Sunday morning, but here it is Monday morning, and it still shows over 50% charge remaining. Pretty Sweet!

Presenting Isabella Marie

Baby number four on the way

All, baby number four is on its way, and may be here any day.  Looks like we will be about three weeks early, but that has been par for the course for us.  We ask for your prayers that the baby is born healthy!

One kink in the armor

If there is any issues with VI3, it has to be the reliability of Virtual Center after its host machine crashes.  In the past 2 years of running virtual center, the Windows box on which it runs has lost power due to facility issues maybe 5 times.  Of the five major power surges/outages, virtual center has failed to fully come online 4 times.  So far each time has required a reinstallation of the application, and a restoration of the last full db backup.  Luckily bringing the hosts back under management isn't a very arduous task.  Even without the database backup, you can still bring all of the hosts back under the VC umbrella rather quickly.  You do however lose all of your cluster configuration options.  This particular fault bit me just a few weeks back.

After a VC reinstallation due to a power outage, I had what I thought was a suspect database backup and current DB.  So I wiped the old db, and created a new one.  I brought all of the hosts back into management, but had forgotten about setting the DRS to partially automatic, rather than the default fully automatic.  This caused the VMs on my 75% utilized production cluster to start VMotioning at will about 3 every 2 minutes.  After about 40 or so vmotions in an hour, we finally had one puke.  Luckily it was our corporate exchange server.  After looking at the logs, and seeing all of the VMotions, it became clear to me that I had forgotten to go back in and setup all of the cluster settings as per my preference.  Once this was done, a VM reset, everything was fine.

Moral of the story, when recreating a VC database, be sure to go in and inspect all settings of a cluster, before re-adding the hosts!

Telling it like it is!

Go Newt!  Way to put the bias media in its place!

McCain / Palin

What a great speech!  I don't think that she could have possibly done a better job than she did last night.  She was showed that she is a very strong VP candidate, and isn't afraid to take on the left wing machine that has tried relentlessly to discredit her.  She is a threat to them.  She is what America needs.  She symbolizes what real feminism is.  She stands for traditional family values.  She is the embodiment of us small town American's whose sweat, blood, and tears keep this country moving forward.  I believe that both John McCain, and Sarah Palin will truly enter the White House with a servant's heart.  No special interests, no Washington Elitism, just plain straight talk, and doing what's best for America.  I've never been prouder to be a Republican.

5 days so far... thats $50 saved in gas

I bought my bike to save money on gas.  I have about a 50 mile round trip commute to the office through the back roads.  Through two tanks of gas, I am averaging about 65 miles per gallon.  Not too bad!  Maybe this thing will pay for itself in the next 12 months!