06/02/09 09:04 - ID#48827
Seabar on Washington
We went to Seabar on washington for James' birthday. The food there is so delicious and beautiful.
The bright red one was "beef on weck" which is raw beef wrapped around rice and more beef, dipped in salt and caraway seeds. I also had marlin for the first time.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: government
06/01/09 02:23 - 62ºF - ID#48814
Workfare instead of welfare?
Obviously, I am only talking about people who are physically capable. If childcare is an issue than they could pick child care providers out of the group and have them watch children while the parents took turns working.
I mean our society has so much stuff that need to be done, and a lot of people that "desperately want jobs but can't find them." We pay them either way, why not let society (the people themselves included) reap some benefit from the tax money spent.
Then their salaries can just show up with all the other state workers? Is that ok?
There were plenty of examples of this during the depression with public works projects.
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Words: 147
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: government
05/31/09 10:22 - 49ºF - ID#48807
State Employee Salaries and Welfare
They are a little behind, its not real time number but last year's numbers - still interesting.
I understand why people want this - the public pays the salary - the public wants to know where the money is going.
I like this kind of transparency and think we should take it one step further.
I think we should also publish the names and amount that people reap in social welfare benefits, and how about unemployment too? Seems only fair.
What do you guys think?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
05/31/09 08:16 - ID#48806
Finally got to the pipe in question
That diagnal pipe coming out of the tub going into the main toilet
drain is where the problem lies. Next step is to replace it. My arms
are so freakin tired.
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Words: 36
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: housing
05/31/09 01:20 - ID#48802
Hex tile at buffalo reuse
floor and we got a whole bag for $4 but that was all they had.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: awards
05/31/09 12:46 - ID#48801
Mike's garage sale
you that missed it, it is still going till 3ish and you can buy the
high school musical board game.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: linwood
05/31/09 12:42 - ID#48800
The porch
am ready for some comfortable porch furniture.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: linwood
05/31/09 12:36 - ID#48799
So sick of this bathroom
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Words: 25
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computers
05/29/09 08:40 - 58ºF - ID#48790
Socks Proxy Magic - Using SSH for proxy
What I am going to demonstrate allows you to secure you internet connection on your laptop when you are a coffee shop or when you are somewhere where they are blocking your favorite site and you want to get around that by piping all your laptop traffic through you home computer or external server, encrypted over SSH.
This assumes both machines have SSH and are *nix flavor (mac,unix,linux). If you are using windows I think you can still do this somehow but I don't care and you can figure it out yourself.
Its really just a few simple steps. The first step is to connect to your server/home computer from from the laptop:
ssh -p SSH_PORT -D LOCAL_PORT USERNAME@SERVER
SSH_PORT = The addres you communicate over ssh with. You can leave off the -p SSH_PORT if you are using ssh on the vanilla port 22.
LOCAL_PORT - The local port you want to use for the SOCKS proxy. I would suggest something like 8080 but it really doesn't matter. Just make sure its one you are not using.
USERNAME@SERVER - The normal username@server you use to connect to your home machine or server over ssh. e.g. myuser@mysite.com. It can also be the IP address if you don't have a domain name.
Once you have connected open up a SOCKS proxy complaint app. A common one is Firefox and great because its a web browser, so that is the kind of traffic you want to secure when surfing somewhere sketchy.
In your firefox prefs, choose the network tab.
Then set up the proxy settings to point to localhost 127.0.0.1 and the LOCAL_PORT port you choose above.
You should be set to go. To test and make sure open you /etc/hosts files and add an entry for:
0.0.0.0 google.com
Now open up another browser. When you go to google it should be site not found as you are redirecting google to 0.0.0.0 for your comp. However, when you use firefox with the SOCKS proxy it should still work when you go to google.com because the traffic is being piped through SSH to your server or home machine.
Once you are done with this test remember to take the google.com entry out of /etc/hosts and also remember all you traffic is only encrypted and piped via firefox.
Another simple test is to check your IP from your browser. Visit in firefox. The IP should be the same as your home computer/server.
To shut down the proxy just kill the process for the ssh connection to the server.
You can also set you entire system to use the proxy but that is for another day. Well here is a clue on a mac. This is in the system network preferences. Safari should be proxied afterwards.
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Words: 518
Location: Buffalo, NY
05/29/09 06:31 - ID#48788
One more pic from zoar
(E:southernyankee) sent me this pic she took of me at zoar. I wish I
could have got this pic a month ago when I was much buffer but it's
better than no pic.
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Words: 38
Location: Buffalo, NY
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