When you have a three-year-old in the house you quickly grow weary of the traditional nursery rhymes like The Itsy, Bitsy Spider. For relief, I've been introducing my daughter to music we both can enjoy together: The Beatles. Her fab four appreciation and knowledge are growing by leaps and bounds. She can already name all four Beatles, and is slowly learning who is singing on which songs. Her current favorite is Ringo (Yellow Submarine, Octopus's Garden), followed by Paul (Hello Goodbye, Her Majesty). I'd love to turn her on to I am the Walrus, but she's not quite ready yet. Maybe when she's four.

Megan McArdle is right on the money, as usual. An auto industry bailout would be a massive waste of taxpayer money and would only postpone the inevitable. Unfortunately the Democrats will almost certainly do it anyway for political reasons.

...as reported in The New York Times.

I finally decided to join the 21st century and set up a wireless network at home. I was a little apprehensive at first because my ISP is Comcast cable, whom I knew I couldn't count on for support. Luckily the setup went pretty smoothly. The only hitch was that I had foolishly neglected to power-cycle the cable modem before plugging in the wireless router (NetGear WGT624v4). The cable modem registers the MAC address of whatever it's plugged into, so you need to shut it off for 30 seconds before you plug in something different like a new wireless router. Once I did that, everything worked fine with the default settings. Then I changed the router admin password and enabled encryption (it's amazing how many unsecured wireless networks you can find in my neighborhood with iwlist scan). On the client (Debian) side all I had to do was install wireless-tools and wpasupplicant and then appropriately configure /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.