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This book is a must-have for anyone who cares about America. Our country became great because of numerous people doing the best they could where they were. In this book you will read about patriots you’ve heard of, such as Andrew Jackson and George Washington, but also many that you have not, like Israel Putnam and William Carney.

Each day has a short entry about one patriot with brief details to whet your appetite for more research if you find yourself interested. You’ll also find a list of other historical events for the day. Interspersed between the months are various items too large for a single day, such as the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution to name a few.

I have really enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone with any interest at all in the history of our nation.

I read this as part of Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger Program.

I upgraded both my desktop and server to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from 9.04 last week. Today I came across an error uploading a zip file to be extracted using PHP:

Abort pclzip.lib.php : Missing zlib extensions

After some searching around (remember, in cases such as this, Google is your friend), I found a link to an ongoing discussion regarding this issue.  Bottom line, there is a fix in the pipe to be released, but it’s still in “proposed” status.  To get it you need to edit your sources list:

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Once you’ve opened the file, add the following two lines:

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

Save the file, then execute:

sudo aptitude update

Once you’ve done this, go to System->Administration->Update Manager, run the update, and viola, no more zlib error!

Whatever you may think of Glenn Beck, he offers a very insightful discussion on what we are facing here in the US. Not sure I agree with the last bit about what will eventually back our currency, but the rest is pretty good.