This is a little different than the sort of stuff that I usually post, but go check out this video if you haven’t already. It’s video from a helmet cam on a skydiver whose chutes didn’t open. Luckily, he landed in a bush and managed to survived. Check out the news story as well.
Amazing, just amazing…
Rob Levin, a.k.a. “lilo”, Freenode admin was the victim of a hit-and-run driver on September 12th. Rob was riding a bicycle in Houston, Texas, when he was hit. Rob suffered intense head injuries and was in a coma until his passed away on September 16th.
Rob’s family has asked that any donations be made to the Peer-Directed Projects Center or, alternatively, to a bicycle safety campaign in your area.
One other thing that I’m going to do now that I’m back in Mitchell is to “relaunch” my consulting business, LinuxWiz Consulting. I stopped taking new clients and finished up my active projects months ago because a certain somebody complained that it took up too much of my time. That won’t be an issue anymore, so I’m going to start it back up. There’s some legal paperwork I’ll have to take care to operate in this county again, but nothing major. Hopefully within the next 30 days or so, LinuxWiz Consulting will be back in full-swing!
The space shuttle launch has been postponed due to weather. We drove through a small storm a bit ago, the same one that’s over Cape Canaveral right now. Next shot is at 3:26pm tomorrow.
So we’re continuing onto Daytona. Just passed through Orlando a short bit ago and currently about 42 miles from Daytona Beach…
In regards to H.R. 5252, the “Net Neutrality” bill, who voted for what? Take a look at the official results and see. I’ve already wrote to Congressman Mike Sodrel, my representation, to let him know how disappointed I am. (Note that I’m a democrat and disappointed in most everything he does, anyways. He probably has me on his spam filter already.)
A blog –Â short for “web log” –Â is an online personal journal that covers topics ranging from daily life to technology to culture to the arts. Blogs have made such an impact this year that Merriam-Webster named it the word of the year.
“There’s a blog for every niche. There’s a blog for every interest,” said technology writer Xeni Jardin, who co-edits the blog boingboing.net.
Dylan Verdi, an 11-year-old known as the world’s youngest videoblogger, says she covers “things that I’ve seen that I like or that I’ve heard of, or just anything that happened to me that day that I’m thinking.”
There are millions of blogs on the Internet  a new one is created every seven-and-a-half seconds. More than 10,000 new additions are added to the “blogosphere” each day.
On August 28th, America’s Most Wanted had a segment on a gentleman named Kerry Silvers who was wanted for escape and for questioning in a murder case. Kerry is from the same area as me and I met him many years ago. Though pretty much a “career criminal”, Kerry is a very intelligent individual. He escaped from the Lawrence County Security Center in May 2000 and was out for less than a month before he was captured. After being sentenced to 61 years in prison in Lawrence County, he was transferred to the Orange County Jail to face forgery charges (while he was on the lam, he was forging payroll checks). While there, he and two others overtook the jailers at the small (and probably understaffed) facility and managed to escape.
The two others were captured a few days later, in their hometown (yeah, not the smartest guys in the world, huh?). Kerry, however, had not been seen since.
On May 31st, 2000, a 19-year-old young lady named Jill Behrman went missing. Her remains were discovered nearly three years later on March 9th, 2003 in a section of rural woods in Morgan County, Indiana. Police had a suspect in the case named Uriah Clouse, but didn’t have enough hard enough to hold him or charge him with Jill’s murder. While Kerry is not a suspect in the Behrman murder (according to the authorities), they wanted to talk to him. Kerry, apparently, had spent some time in jail with Uriah Clouse and they think he may have had some information on the case.
On August 28th, 2004, America’s Most Wanted aired a segment on Kerry Silvers, detailing his two escapes and his possible link to the Behrman murder. Watching that Saturday night was a gentleman named Jason Wojdylo. Unlike most other viewers, however, Jason is a deputy with the U.S. Marshals in Indiana. Jason, being from the Bloomington area and familiar with the case, took it upon himself to find Kerry Silvers.
It didn’t take long. On December 15th, the Marshals arrested Kerry Silvers in Martinez de la Torre, a small village in Veracruz, Mexico. According to my local newspaper (from Kerry’s hometown), he was working in a school teaching English to young children. He was also teaching computer classes and running a computer repair business (remember, I said this guy was smart). Kerry was transported to the Indiana Department of Corrections to begin serving the 61 years that he currently owes to the State of Indiana. During the escape from Orange County, he racked up a whole bunch more charges and is facing something like 320 years total for all of them. He’ll be held in a maximum-security facility and will (if the State of Indiana has its way) never be a free man again.
Meanwhile, investigators have been talking with Kerry and questioning him on the Behrman case. Though they aren’t releasing any details, they have said that he is “cooperating”.
My Bookmarks My Recent Diggs
Recent Comments