Public Encryption Key

Here is my public encryption key if anyone cares to send a confidential message.

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Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)

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Chip

Rainover

It is raining and I have a hangover.  Not a terribly awful one, just enough to know that I had one too many last night.  Heck, I even re-joined FaceBook.  Enough weirdly connected events happened to me yesterday that I might just stay home all day today, but I guess not.  I am always too willing to tempt the fates.

Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

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Chip

Facebook

I decided to login to FaceBook.  It has been some time since I closed my account and I noticed that the only time that I was tempted to login was after a few drinks.  Yes, I have had a few drinks.  Anyhow, my attempt to login was not met with success.  Here is an image of the message that I received.

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Chip

Odd Problem

For some reason, I can send SMS messages (text) but do not receive them.  I searched the internet for someone having a similar problem in the hope that it had been resolved in a way that I could use to repair my problem.  No such luck.  It seems that the problem is hard to fix.

I have tried a number or remedies that have not resolved the trouble and I am now waiting for my cellular service provider to correct it.


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Chip

Hard Drive Magnets

I have a number of old hard drives that I will never use and so I am taking them apart to extract the magnets that they contain.  These are strong rare-earth magnets.  I am not certain what use I will have for them  Right now, the magnets from two hard drives are stuck on the refrigerator.  Here is a picture:

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Chip

G. K. Chesterton

I was paying a visit to Chaos Manor when I came across a post containing this snippit:

"“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

G. K. Chesterton, cited by the American Chesterton society as coming from a broadcast talk 6-11-35" (Link)

This is the sort of text that tends to strike my fancy and  G. K. Chesterton is a familiar name to me.  I decided that I might like to re-read some of his works and to read some that I have not yet had the pleasure to.

You can read about G. K. Chesterton at The American Chesterton Society and you can find some of his works to read (for free) at Project Gutenberg.


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Chip

Louisiana Orphan Train Riders

My Uncle Harold Dupre's father was an Orphan Train Rider.  Here is a video that relates the history of the orphans along with interviews.

You can visit the Opelousas, Louisiana Orphan Train Museum website for more information and they look forward to your visit.

Click here: Louisiana Orphan Train Museum

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Chip

We Were Not Afforded the Opportunity to Rig the Election

This is rich.  A politician who was recalled  in Colorado blames voter suppression for her loss.




HT: RealClearPolitics

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Chip

The Black N.R.A.

I have to hand it to the man, I like his video informationals.




HT: Instapundit
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Chip

Blog Zapped

I am starting my blog over.  Last week, after a problem surfaced in regards to posting to my blog, I deleted my entire Google account.  After I got over my mad, I had it restored by Google folk but the blog "NewIberian" was not restored.

I do have an off-line backup but as I wrote in a previous post, backups are useless if they cannot be used to restore.  Sure, I could restore from the backup but it would involve a lot of work that I am not prepared to do.

As for the problem that arose, it is still there and will not allow me to post as I had before.  However, after poking around I tried using a secure connection and it all worked as far as being able to create a post.

I had not been using a secure connection as my logins to post had little chance of being intercepted due to other security procedures that I was using.  I guess that another layer of security will not do any harm and I should have been using HTTPS as a matter of course.

Check back for daily updates.


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Chip