Go Carol Shea-Porter!

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070221/REPOSITORY/702210315/1028/OPINION02

The war of words between GOP Chairman Fergus Cullen and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter continues.

Last week, Cullen criticized Shea-Porter's recent speech on the House floor, saying it undermined U.S. troops. Shea-Porter called on Cullen to retract his statement.

Yesterday, Cullen declined to do so. "If she's going to be against this war, she should have the courage of her convictions and vote to end funding," Cullen said.

He described last week's House debate on a resolution expressing congressional disapproval of President Bush's troop surge in Iraq as "shameful."

Shea-Porter hit back: "If Fergus Cullen has the courage of his convictions, he should go enlist, because they're having trouble meeting their quota. He's young, he's single and he's healthy. If he needs to know where the recruiters are, call me."

Although she opposes the war, Shea-Porter said, she's "working in a bipartisan manner to protect the troops and keep them funded with everything they need."

Boston Classic Meet

Trevor placed 4th in the all around at yesterday's Boston Classic Boys' Level 5 gymnastics meet.

Here are some LoFi videos of his Rings, High Bar and Floor routines.

* Rings:

* HBar:

* Floor:

Building F-Spot from source on Ubuntu

The instructions How to Build F-Spot from HEAD are mostly correct for Ubuntu/Edgy and Ubuntu/Feisty, but leave out a number of packages that need to be installed before autogen.sh is run.

Be sure to also install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install mono-devel \
libglib2.0-dev libmono-dev libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil \
libexif-dev libgnomeui-dev liblcms1-dev libgphoto2-2-dev \
libusb-dev

And instead of make install, use make -k install since it will attempt to run scrollkeeper which attempts to update /var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs.

The offending line is: scrollkeeper-update -p /var/lib/scrollkeeper -o /home/marc/unstable/f-spot/share/omf/f-spot

Friends of Grater Woods (Merrimack, NH)

Last night was the first meeting of the Friends of Grater Woods in Merrimack, NH. It is the parcel of land behind the Merrimack Middle School. I'll be serving as the Secretary and last night setup http://www.friendsofgraterwoods.org/

Another weekend, another meet

Gym and More Meet in Woburn, MA. For some reason they didn't give out rankings for the individual events.

Floor: 9.0
Pommel: 8.4
Rings: 9.5
Vault: 9.8
Parallel Bars: 9.1
High Bar: 8.6
All Around: 2nd place

GPS track of hike in Grater Woods, Merrimack NH

GPS track of hike in Grater Woods, Merrimack NH

Originally uploaded by marcn.

The rest of the photo set is here: Friends of Grater Wood Hike (2007-01-21) (Set)

This Monday, 6:00-7:30pm there will be a meeting at the Middle School Library.

Tracking a Flickr group's growth

nitens | flickr gadgets has a nice little stat-providing hack that was mentioned on Flickr's /geeks group.

Here are some stats for Flickr's NH group:



and

Statistics for Flickr group: New Hampshire