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To the guy (or gal) from Stuttgart, Germany using an army.mil address, thank you for visiting - and thank you for your service!

Stay safe, and keep the faith.

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).

According to their press release:

We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer.

• Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (Native American Holocaust committed by John McCain - John Kerry - Ted Kennedy - Jay Rockefeller - Coal for American Indian death.
  Think the unconscionable land grabs and forced relocations of The People are a thing of ancient history? Think again, with this worrisome protest about the treatment of Dine (Navajo).
  (tags: FirstNations Amerindian NativeAmerican Dine Navajo JohnMcCain politics genocide)

Since I’ve added the pictures from Rolling Thunder 2005 and 2006, I thought I might as well include the video we took in 2007. It’s short (the memory card was small), about 4 minutes covering the head of the rally as it reached the National Archives building on the Mall.

The video was made with a digital camera, not a “video camera” by any means - but the sound gives you a pretty good idea of where Rolling Thunder gets its name - It goes on for 4 hours!

Hopefully, this year we’ll get many more pictures. It’s just hard to remember to take any in the middle of everything.

While I was moving files over to new servers, I discovered a folder of *old* images from my old author site. I’ve put them up on my Picasa site, but here are some of them in all their glory.

These images were taken at Rolling Thunder in 2006.

While I was moving files over to new servers, I discovered a folder of *old* images from my old author site. I’ve put them up on my Picasa site, but here are some of them in all their glory.

These images were taken at Rolling Thunder in 2005.

While I was moving files over to new servers, I discovered a folder of *old* images from my old author site. I’ve put them up on my Picasa site, but here are some of them in all their glory.

These images were taken at Dragon*Con in 2003.

• The Other ‘Tibet’ - TIME
  TIME reports on a lesser-promoted clampdown by the Chinese authorities against minorities.
  (tags: China muslim Uighur)

• Flying Thunder Flight to the Wall
  Wings & Rotors Air Museum’s four combat-certified, Vietnam era helicopters will escort over 300,000 motorcycle riders from California to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC on the annual Memorial Day Rolling Thunder’s “Ride to the Wall 200
  (tags: Veterans rollingthunder Motorcycle motorcycles biker patriotguard)
• Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally
  ROLLING THUNDER XXI
  (tags: veterans rollingthunder patriotguard Motorcycle motorcycles)

Lots of people like to give The Register all kinds of grief for it’s … umm … informal style of reporting?

Of course, it has nothing to do with their ability to ferret out such gems tech companies would prefer not to become common knowledge, such as Phorm’s proposed deep-packet inspection or BT’s still inexplicable secret testing of the same against a large number of users without their knowledge.

Honest.

It almost certainly isn’t because of stories such as this one, which tells of a potential problem with Windows Defender (a Microsoft security application). It seems that a recent update to Windows Defender is causing USB devices to die.