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Comment on Repeal the Federal gas tax for the summer? by boreal

boreal — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:47:55 +0000

A friend pointed out to me one miss in my above examples, Inflation. So if we increase gas taxes (including diesel) this will drive up the cost of goods. This is probably true and this is not factored in. The point of the post is that there are different ways to look at this problem then we’ve been looking before. Hopefully this has opened up new thoughts on how to persuade the American public to change their ways.

Comment on Just got hitched by boreal

boreal — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:27:36 +0000

I wouldn’t have it too late in the fall. One I don’t think they are open too far into the season. Second the neat feature about venus is how all the doors open up to the bay. If its too cold you won’t be able to use that feature.

Comment on Just got hitched by Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:36:23 +0000

Hi, I love the description of your wedding. Would you recommend having a fall wedding at Venus? Any additional advice than what is in your blog?

Thanks, Lisa

Comment on It is the little things by Bucky

Bucky — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:05:32 +0000

There are dimmable CFL bulbs on the market now. I’m awaiting delivery of some. I will report back on how well they work. As far as bulb ‘color’ goes, I use the ’soft white’ from globe (available on Amazon). Totally indistinguishable from incadescent ’soft white’ bulbs. They also have an 800 lumen (60 watt incadescent equivalent) which is the same size as a standard light bulb. It has enabled me to change out several ceiling light fixtures where a gen 1 style twist CFL bulb would not fit. Check it out!!

Comment on SSL Certificates, a rip-off by mas

mas — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:49:20 +0000

cacert.org sounds like a good idea, but really it is quite useless right now and I dont expect it to change anytime soon.
That is so because NONE of the mainstream browsers include their root certs, hence all visitors have to click away 2 warnings (which most will do however).
Now what is the difference to using a SELF-signed certificate then? None actually, encryption works, same warnings to be clicked away unless you manually import a root cert. So where’s the point to go through the tedious cacert process? None really.
That is a bit sad but it simply is that the browser manufacturers exploit their monopol and charbe big bucks for audits to get your root ca included. And those going through that process want big ROI and hence charge rip-off prices. Really a realistic price for a email-response validated cert is like 1$ / year and for a manually document validated about 20$. But the certs that work without warning on the browsers are always way more expansive so simply keep your hands off em I would say.
Alternatives with at least some merits are:
1. http://www.startssl.com/, free, only firefox 2.0 on, but at least one major browser. Sigh. Currently the best truly free version.
2. Use a commodo test certificate. Renew it every 90 days. Not really handy but saves the rip-off prices. Commodo is a little less rip-off than verisign and so but still by a large factor too expansive.