The Race for the Presidency: 2008
Review of the major US Presidential candidates for the 2008 campaign with emphasis on the personalities of the candidates by Evan Thomas of Newsweek magazine at UCSD. Also covered is problems with current campaigns and the need for bipartisanship, and questions from the audience.[Read More]
Posted at 02:55PM Jan 19, 2008 by DanX in Politics | Comments[1]
Upgrading a Linux Server to OpenSolaris
Upgrading a Linux Server to OpenSolaris[Read More]
Posted at 06:22PM Jan 01, 2008 by DanX in Solaris | Comments[5]
Simple Live Upgrade Example For Fun and Profit
Simple example of using Live Upgrade (LU) to clone a root filesystem to create a second Solaris boot slice (Boot Environment or BE).[Read More]
Posted at 04:05PM Nov 30, 2007 by DanX in Solaris | Comments[2]
Toorcon 9 Computer Security Conference (2007)
Toorcon 9 (2005) computer security conference notes[Read More]
Posted at 10:34PM Oct 21, 2007 by DanX in Security | Comments[1]
WiFi (WPA) with Solaris Express on my Thinkpad laptop
Setting up wireless with Solaris SXDE 9/07 on a x86 laptop.[Read More]
Posted at 11:31PM Oct 12, 2007 by DanX in Solaris | Comments[2]
Ebook File Creation from HTML
Automatically generating ebook file formats from HTML. That is, generating Plain Text, PDF, PalmOS DOC PDB, zTXT, and Plucker from HTML on Solaris or other UNIX-class system[Read More]
Posted at 10:52PM Sep 01, 2007 by DanX in Solaris |
The Wrong Stuff
Book about Randy "Duke" Cunningham, convicted ex-congressman and Federal prisoner[Read More]
Posted at 11:13PM Jun 14, 2007 by DanX in Politics |
American Accent
Quiz that determins your American English accent.[Read More]
Posted at 03:12PM Dec 20, 2006 by DanX in General |
Solaris Wine
Solaris wine[Read More]
Posted at 09:51AM Dec 03, 2006 by DanX in General | Comments[1]
Using CUPS Print Server for Solaris 10
Using CUPS printing software with Solaris 10[Read More]
Posted at 11:51PM Nov 26, 2006 by DanX in Solaris | Comments[10]
Solaris laptop battery status
How to display the battery status from laptops running Solaris.[Read More]
Posted at 04:44PM Nov 26, 2006 by DanX in Solaris |
Mounting a Linux NFSv4 filesystem on Solaris
Fix for mounting a NFSv4 filesystem from Linux on Solaris (NFSv4 is broken on Linux)[Read More]
Posted at 08:53PM Nov 16, 2006 by DanX in Solaris |
The Signature Collection
A collection of email signature tag lines, several with ASCII graphics[Read More]
Posted at 11:13AM Oct 31, 2006 by DanX in Solaris |
Cookies
Origin of the computer term "cookies"[Read More]
Posted at 05:07PM May 02, 2006 by DanX in Solaris |
Hotel San Diego Implosion
Before: Hotel San Diego, Northeast corner, May 2002 |
Yesterday, the historic Hotel San Diego was demolished. The seven-story hotel lived on 339 W. Broadway in downtown San Diego, California. The hotel was built in 1914 by John D. Spreckels, who made his riches from Spreckels Sugar and shipping. Spreckels moved out of San Francisco after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (100 years ago today) to someplace safer and nicer.
The hotel was built by architect Harrison Albright and is one of only three that remain (now zero of two). In recent years, before the Hotel was closed in 2002 Hotel San Diego became a ran-down, dirty residential hotel, occupied mainly by elderly and low-income residents on a weekly or monthly basis.
The hotel was demolished for a Federal Courthouse annex. The Federal Courthouse is on overload to take care of all the drug smugglers and illegal immigrant smugglers being hauled into court—we are on the Mexican border after all.
After: Hotel San Diego after demolition, Northeast corner, April 15, 2006 |
Historic preservationists wanted the hotel exterior preserved. The interior could have been gutted, earthquake retrofitted, and renovated for courthouse space. That way, we would have kept an historic and attractive building, yet still be functional. However, Federal rules require a large setback from the street to keep terrorists (both domestic and foreign) from blowing up the building. The new courthouse annex will be a 22-story (and probably sterile) building. I see their thinking about a setback, but isn't it ironic that we're blowing up a building in the name of homeland security?
More information
- Hotel San Diego memorial
- San Diego Hotel reservations for hotels still standing
- Story from San Diego Union-Tribune: "Hotel San Diego checks out". Includes video of implosion.
- "Bringing down the house", San Diego Union-Tribune covers plans for the implosion, including a maps and diagrams
- Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO)'s viewpoint about destroying Hotel San Diego
- Video from channel 7/39 News
- Video from channel 10 News
- Video from KUSI News
- Another video (homemade). The date is wrong--it occurred April 15, not April 16.
- Another homemade video
Technorati Tags: San Diego, Hotel San Diego
Posted at 04:11PM Apr 16, 2006 by DanX in Travel |