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War on Terror Ends!

Are you terrified?
War is Terror
The question is of extreme relevance as the war on terror is all about you.

A war on terror is a war on a word, a concept, an invisible entity that we can never truly kill. It represents a shift in war mentality. In recent history war has taken an us versus them perspective, where group A loves or needs X and group B hates or has X so A and B fight. Now, we fight words, and as a result we’ve personalized and individualized war. A war on terror is in essence a war of one against a feeling.

For seven years we’ve fought against this word, “terror”, yet people are still terrified. They doubt the resiliency of our economy. They distrust our “elected” leaders. They wonder if they can afford to put food on the table. Seven years have passed and terror is still kicking our butts, and will continue to do so, for we cannot kill a word.

There is only one way to end this war and it starts with you. It starts here. Are you ready to end the world on terror? Gather up your courage, clear your throat, stretch your fingers and shout or type it as loud you can:

I am not terrified!

  • I am not terrified of dying.
  • It is an event that will meet all of us soon. Rich, poor, old, young, athletic, obese, smart, stupid, good and evil, all of us will one day die. I speed through the streets of Greater Boston on my bicycle without fear of death. It makes me a better cyclist, as I do not hesitate to move.

  • I am not terrified of Muslims.
  • They are a people. There are over 1.5 billion Muslims in this world. Some of them are evil; some of them are not. Most of them are average people like you and me.

  • I am not terrified of peace.
  • Without war, how would we keep global population down, technology on the cutting edge and resources flowing? By focusing on these issues rather than killing each other, that’s how.This War on Terror is a War on Peace

  • I am not terrified of the federal government of these United States of America.
  • If need be, the fifty states of the union can and will exercise their rights to sovereignty.

  • I am not terrified that our elections are either greatly mismanaged or more realistically fraudulent.
  • My vote will be published on this blog. It may not be counted but it will be recorded.

  • I am not terrified that artificial people called corporations roam our lands and rape people’s wallets and health for the pursuit of the lowly dollar.
  • Consumerism is a dying artificial (d)evolution and is already experiencing the last struggles before its’ ultimate death.

Most importantly, I am simply not terrified.

The only way to end this war on words is with words. Declare you are not terrified and join me in a world without wars on words.

As of now, for me, the war on terror is over!

Today is the 111th Day of the Year

Today is the 111th day of the year, and as such marks the year being 1/3 over in my calendar. As the day of the birth of myself occurs in the last 32/33 days of the year, I write off the totality of those days as one massive holiday. So, what have I gotten accomplished in this first third of the year?

Here’s a list of 14 15 accomplishments:

Have you accomplished any significant goals or done something you’re particularly proud or pleased about in the past 3-4 months? If so, do share below.

Here’s to a great middle and end to the year!

My Redirects to WWW Work!

Yes!

A long time ago (in this galaxy, not one far away), after reading Daniel’s WWW or no-WWW? post I implemented an Apache redirect in my .htaccess file to redirect my non-www address to www.adampieniazek.com/. It worked, but all non-www addresses would redirect to my homepage instead of to each individual page (for instance, adampieniazek.com/about/ would go to www.adampieniazek.com instead of to www.adampieniazek.com/about/). Well, it kept bugging me and bugging me and I kept trying alternate ways to get this to work properly and today it finally works right!

Here’s the piece of code that finally sorted out the kinks:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^\.adampieniazek\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.adampieniazek.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Credit goes to the good people at no-www for putting the code in their FAQ (though switched to redirect the www address to the non-www address).

If anyone experiences any issues, please drop me a quick line.

Why I Quit Smoking

I realized I was committing a slow, sad, drawn-out suicide, so in the second week of January of this year I quit. Cold turkey. Easiest thing I’ve ever done.

Quick or Slow Stop Smoking Ad

Then three months later I quit my job at the cube farm and got to living. Whoever said quitters never win, never faced Big Tobacco.

HT: Digg






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