For the vast majority of Americans, the answer is no. Here is the breakdown on why.

In a recent post I made the assertion savings are important. I’d like to expand on that a bit. We all think we understand it, but I posit we don’t fully grasp it.

Forest fires suck. Once upon a time, we thought if we protected our forests from forest fires the forests, and we, would be better off. It took a long time, but eventually it became clear this was a bad policy. So we have, slowly, begun to realize it is better to focus on being able to recover from a fire, and able to minimize property and personal damage from fires than to take the naive and reckless position of preventing them in the first place.

Really, calling the campaign stops “Presidential Candidate Debates” is more than just a misnomer, it’s a disservice.

A Shot from the deck door of my new home office.

No more garage office! There are a few things to finish off, such as the water cooler and mini-fridge, not to mention decorating. However, my new home office is ready for business. I have plenty of windows providing a bounty of natural daylight from the second story of the new house. I think I’ll be placing the mini-fridge just to the right of the monitor in the picture. The water cooler will go behind the desk in a tight corner where the walk-in closet door opens.

CloudFront Log Importer is a set of python scripts that upon proper configuration will retrieve your CloudFront access logs, order them, and store them locally. It also improves upon the formatting of the file by adjusting some fields and making it a tab delineated file. It is designed to run via cron and can be found at the cflogimporter repo.

QShowpost is a command line utility for examining the queue levels of a Postfix server. How many messages are delayed? How many are in the Hold Queue? QShowpost will give you those answers.