Daily Archives: September 1, 2005

I am Weak

I played an old spiritual song when I auditioned for the jazz program at Loyola New Orleans in 1995. The opening lyrics to that song are “I am weak but though art strong”. The song is a mainstay of traditional New Orleans jazz bands; it is titled ‘Just a Closer Walk with Thee’.
I [...]

Titans Tonight

I think the Titans looked pretty good tonight. At least it was good to watch the Titans. The pre-season never fails to get me ready to watch some serious football.
It is totally worth the East Nashville traffic nightmare.

Capital Punishment

Why is it that a group of vocal right-wingers are so quick to jump to the ’shoot them’ stance with major catastrophes? It happened with the London bombing and it is happening with looters in New Orleans. Aside from the whole ‘innocent until proven guilty’ thing, ponder this for a minute:

Let he who [...]

Hurricaine Housing

MoveOn has launched hurricanehousing.org to help people who need housing find people who have housing to donate. I don’t know how many refugees will end up in Nashville, but it is a good place here and there is housing available.

Quick! While Nobody is Looking

So, we have a three day weekend AND the country is focused on Katrina. Now would be a really good time for the Bush administration to release some steam from the pressure cooker. The last time we had a three day weekend the whole ‘Karl Rove leaked Valeria Plame’ story broke on Friday [...]

Halley Gets It

Halley gets gas conservation. After a week or so she is extolling the virtues of a minimal gas life.

Installing PHP5 on RHE3

I need to install PHP5 on a Red Hat Enterprise 3 server. I would prefer to go the RPM and be sure that everything will work as it does now (i.e. still work with Plesk hosts). I have looked for an RPM but have not been able to find one. If I [...]