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The Center For Public Integrity has published an exhaustive study of the Bush administration’s efforts to manipulate the United States into war with Iraq, arriving at a total of 935 lies.

–Via Talking Points Memo and Seattlest.

If pumpkin carving was an Olympic event, I have no doubt that Josh and Cam would bring home gold medals for their jack-o-lanterns. Amazing!

A lot of redecorating and de-cluttering has occurred at Chez Naveja over the last month or two. We’ve taken a bunch of stuff to Good Will, and we’re currently in the “sell stuff on craigslist” portion of the project. Here’s the current list of items we’re hoping to sell:

• 22″ Panasonic Color Television – Sold
• 2 Matching IKEA Armchairs – Sold
• Classic Onkyo & Cerwin-Vega Home Stereo Equipment – Speakers Sold
• Panasonic DVD-A120 DVD Player – Almost sold to the guy who made it all the way to my house and then decided that what he really wanted was an MP3 player
• Danish Modern Dining Table – Sold
• Solid Wood Dresser – Sold
• 1940s Heywood-Wakefield Style Dining Set – Sold

Contact me if you’re interested.

Happy day. Zoe’s Tale, a new book from John Scalzi, is on the way. He says, “I don’t consider it the fourth book in the Old Man’s War trilogy”. That’s good, because four books won’t fit in a trilogy. Well, maybe if that fourth book was very tiny. Then you might be able to squeeze it in somewhere between the other three. Or maybe fold it up and hide inside of one of the other books? I don’t know. I’m not an author, so I’ll leave that kind of thing to the experts.

Better is the news that he’s got at least a few other books queued up immediately behind this one. A very good friend introduced me to Scalzi earlier this year, and so far I’ve managed to read just two of his books. That said, I already consider him to be in the same league as Niven, Simak, and Heinlein.

Over the last week I’ve seen a *LOT* of ssh dictionary attacks on the new shell server. I’m really not interested in manually updating firewall filter rules every time someone rattles the door knobs, so that’s where DenyHosts comes in.

While it wouldn’t be too much work to script something that will handle this task, DenyHosts is especially interesting to me because of it’s Syncronization Mode. This optional feature allows for my local list of denied hosts to be updated based on the work of other DenyHosts users who have opted to contribute data to the project.