I must apologize for the excessive downtime over the past few days. First, I tried to implement some Perl code live that only worked in theory. It appears that though I can compile Expat, I am unable to convince the linker to make the XML::Parser Perl modules use the shared objects in a non-standard location (my /home). Jon tells me that I should be able to compile PHP on the University server (with a little hackery) and use it exclusively from my /home. At that point I could just start using SiG.

The other instance of downtime was shared across all of USF's servers and I'm still in the dark as to what caused that.

I have a newsfeed finally, for those who are interested. Perhaps I'll have to generate some real content now :)

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Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) is apparently on a federal watch list preventing him from entering the country, despite writing such songs as "Peace Train," which the government has decided to selectively ignore due to the threat to national security.

If musicians are now threats to national security, can we deport Britney? Oh right, only musicians are a threat.

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