But this really tells you something, don’t it?

Head to Google and search for “failure”.

Look at the first hit. Oh, those nerds and their political commentary, how droll. And how right.

I stole this from The Register, btw.

I think it’s important to stay in touch with world events. It provides a sense of balance to your daily life and connects you to the rest of the world. That’s what I was doing when I stumbled across this article about a pest control problem the Kenyan government is dealing with. It’s very interesting to hear what municipal governments deal with on a local level all around the world. For instance, here in Kanata we have the usual complaints (or at least I do) about park maintenance (sorry Ken) and grass cutting, etc. In Kenya it’s more of the same, really. The local government there decided to take action to control the pests threatening the farmland locally. So they decided to relocate them. The pests, not the farms. The only problem was the pests in questions are elephants. 400 elephants, approximately.

The plan was to capture these guys, one at a time, and drive each one 8 hours away to a national park. Oh man, that’s a monumental task, isn’t it? Anyway, they started and discovered that the trailer they had hoped to use to transport the elephants wasn’t up to the task. Man, 400 elephants to go, and now without a trailer. That’s a drag.

Anyway, while their solution was elephant-friendly, they may have been better off using the method for elephant control that the government in India decided on: Anti-elephant chili bombs. Yep, that certainly would discourage me from trampling your home, but there is a risk that it might also throw me into a murderous rage…

It sort of makes the dandelion concerns I have about our local park seem a little silly, eh?

A busted network card leads to a new server, which leads to various hardware trickle-down, software reinstallations, etc.

Amazing how much time that can eat up.

Anyway, the server is much much newer hardware now, so it may actually work a bit better. Or not.

Here’s a quick follow up to yesterday’s article about the creationism guys at the zoo. Not to be out-done, the evolutionists (I may have just made that word up) have started a special web site to foster the growth of this scientific theory of theirs.

In the interests of remaining un-smoten I will leave this post entirely sarcasm-free.

I’m actually capable of that. See?

I can’t hardly keep up with it all, so I’m just going to throw links up here in a pathetic attempt to fill some space today.

First off we have a zoo in Oklahoma that will be building a creationism exhibit. No comment, as a heathen I might be smite-ed.

Next, a court in Italy rules that gay people are allowed to have drivers licences, noting that being gay is merely “a personality disturbance” and shouldn’t affect a person’s ability to drive. Again, no comment, smote-ing is still a possibility.

A real shocker here, the White House official who is re-writing greenhouse gas reports once worked for the American Petroleum Institute “watered down the impact of global warming” in environmental reports. Apparently after the reports were reviewed and authorized by the government scientists he thought he would be a good idea to edit them again to sort of, you know, take the “gloomy truth” out of them. I can hear Wilson quivering with rage already.

Amazing video from inside a tornado on the National Geographic site. They used ground-placed probes with a bunch of cameras to capture all sides, and got lucky with a direct hit from a tornado, I’m not sure how big it was but it was definitely scary to see. Those guys are nuts.

Worth taking the time to watch, for sure.