After only a few months at Fallenmonk Farm Betty the Beagle has headed to the Rainbow Bridge.

It doesn’t take very long to become attached to a critter.

Mike Konczal at New Deal 2.0 looks at the roll-out problems and their effect on liberalism. He knows that this is not a liberal program, and has a little chart that highlights the differences.

He also provided me with confirmation of my guesses at possible problems of going ahead during the government shutdown. There is no way that the Social Security System, IRS, and Homeland Security were going to have all of their servers up during the government shutdown, and that would be an obvious choke point.

Fallenmonk has been trying to get on for a while and discovered that the site prefers IE over Firefox. I can believe that in a push to get the thing out the door, they would test only with IE on Windows.

The Republicans in the House are obviously going to hold hearings on the roll-out, but this NBC report is a bit odd:

The House committee responsible for Obamacare oversight asked for expert guidance last week about the troubled launch of the federal Healthcare.gov site from John McAfee, the tech legend once suspected in the murder of his neighbor in Central America, CNBC has learned.

McAfee’s company wrote anti-virus programs, what qualifies him as an expert in web site development?

Position: 29.5N 48.2W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East [085°] near 5 mph [ 7 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb ↑.

Currently about 1000 miles [1610 km] East of Bermuda.

It is expected to be a remnant low tomorrow.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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