Tough, as read in the following links @ http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread782580/pg1. Like your freedom? Your guns? Your continued "individual rights"? Vote against Obama.

So I've been keeping up with some checklist items in case of an emergency and posting here in case anyone is interested.

Survival kit

This can be put together manually or pre-purchased. I chose a pre-purchased route and picked up a 3-4 day supply from American Preparedness. Contains all the essentials like water, sanitation, food, warmth, first aid. Granted any major catastrophy would cause for more than a 3-4 day supply but if you've got nothing at least have a weeks worth to live off of.

Sleep gear

Luckily I do a lot of camping and have most of the camping gear to be livable out in the wildlife. At least make sure you have sleeping bag and If I'd have to choose I would pick one that handles up to freezing weather even if it has to be used in the summer you can at least sleep on top of it. Usually with the survival kit you'd have items to get a fire going which can go a long way from safety to sanitizing and cooking. I believe you should always pack for the cold primarily because it is easy to handle heat easier than it is to deal with cold weather especially at nights. A Tent preferably but worse case scenario nature will provide decent access to some type of cover.

Food

Big thing to have, non perishables and anything with at least a 5 year shelf life (think MRE's). Along with food try to have a few bottles of multivitamins just in case you can not get all the nutrients from existing food.

Water

another big one. Water will breakdown so make sure to store water in something like airtight mylar bags that give you at least a 25 year shelf life.

Protection

Any form of protection, I prefer easy maintenance weapons like Mossberg shotguns or Smith and Wesson revolvers. When researching firearms make sure to pick the weapons that rarely misfire or lockup during shell exchange (hence the revovlers). Rifles are good to have, but keep the number small. Mainly keep rifles around for hunting and if it comes with a scope anytype of long range reconnaisance. Shotguns should be purchased with close range protection in mind, meaning, keep the barrel length fairly short for small enclosures (e.g. hallways). This is all preference of course, I'm partial to mobility and response than excessive power. Lastly, with regards to protection make sure to keep enough ammunition for your weapons. Every paycheck try to pick up a couple boxes for each weapon or if budgeting keep up with enough shells for your shotgun.

Barter

cigarette tobacco (or carton of cigarettes), liquor, ammo, fire building accessories, precious metals (silver, gold)

Transportation

A vehicle with minimal computer parts pre 1980's (if possible)

If no vehicle, makeshift transportation for carrying your supplies. Horse with trailer or a pulley system for 1 to 2 people to pull.

A great survival kit I picked up can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MU5FQI/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details the bag is actually leather and has all the essentials for a few days of survival between 2 people or maybe 2 people and a small child.

I've come across a gravity fed batteryless water purification system http://berkeleywaterfilter.com/

Disclaimer: I'm no professional but I do believe in being prepared and have the ability to protect and provide for my family at all times.

Over at sleekFMK I've added a wiki module from sleekFMK third party modules which gives me the ability to quickly add and update documentation for the framework.

Head over and have a look.

At this moment all my sites are being proxied behind Apache but I'm starting to research nginx and what benefits proxying that would be over apache. Has anyone had any experience with proxy/reverse proxy with nginx?

I managed to get pygments to syntax highlight code for any type of blog posting or other data which is stored in the document database.

Thanks to a tip at saltycrane I was able to modify my syntax helper to achieve the same results in sleekFMK.

The code:

def _unescape_html(html):
    html = html.replace('&lt;', '<')
    html = html.replace('&gt;', '>')
    html = html.replace('&amp;', '&')
    html = html.replace('&quot;', '"')
    html = html.replace('&#39;', "'")
    return html
    
def syntax(html):
    """
    Produces pygmentize syntax highlights
    """
    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
    from pygments import highlight
    from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name
    from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
    
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    preblocks = soup.findAll('pre')
    for pre in preblocks:
        if pre.has_key('class'):
            try:
                code = ''.join([unicode(item) for item in pre.contents])
                code = _unescape_html(code)
                lexer = get_lexer_by_name(pre['class'])
                code_hl = highlight(code, lexer, HtmlFormatter())
                pre.replaceWith(BeautifulSoup(code_hl))
                print code_hl
            except:
                pass
    return unicode(soup)

Im thinking about actually parsing the code on load but I'm curious about the actual load times that would be on both the server and client waiting for page.

So don't use `sudo yaourt -Syu` to upgrade your system because apparently things break. My case was after a reboot the system was failing to find the root disks.

To fix this I booted up with my archlinux usb key and mounted some existing directories and then chrooted into the environment. From there I did a re-install of the latest linux kernel and had the module dependencies rebuild. Once that was done I did a reboot and all was well :)

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/chroot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/chroot/boot
mount --bind /proc /mnt/chroot/proc
mount --bind /dev /mnt/chroot/dev
mount --bind /sys /mnt/chroot/sys
dhclient eth0
pacman -Syu
pacman -S linux

You may get an error about seeing /boot but it isn't mounted and you've just broke your system. As long as you've made sure to mount the partition into your chroot directory you'll be fine.