The 8-year-old boy who apparently shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a “Machine Gun Shoot” in Westfield was identified today by police as Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn.

Bizilj attended the firearms expo Sunday with his father at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club and apparently accidentally shot himself. He was firing a 9-mm Micro UZI machine gun, a fully automatic weapon, said Westfield Police Lieutenant Hipolito Nuñez.

Bizilj was firing the weapon at an outside firing range and was wounded once in the head when the recoil forced the gun to rotate upward and backward, Nuñez said. The boy was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. He was pronounced dead at the hospital with one gunshot wound to the head. No one else was injured.

I’m actually surprised at the number of comments here against Crocs. I’m guessing the commenters have never actually worn a pair for a week.

I bought my first pair 6 months ago (yes, way late if you were buying them as part of a trend) in the midst of an ever-long quest to find the perfect every-day shoe. For my needs, that shoe has to be: VERY breathable, lightweight, comfortable, durable, have an enclosed toe, and ideally be able to get wet+dirty and then clean again in 1 minute.

I’ve owned 2 pair of Keen sandals, several pair of Tevas, every skate shoe imaginable (heavy, hot)

My Crocs are a dream come true. I wear them every day because they meet every criteria of mine. Cringe all you want, snobs. I’m in heaven.

One of the unseen highlights at ASR Sept08 earlier this month was Dwindle’s DSM video. Going behind the scenes at any woodshop is a brain-blowing experience, but Dwindle Distribution’s factory is on another level. For over eight years, they’ve pushed deck technology to the max—Resin, Uberlight, Impact Support, Eternal Life, and Armor Light are all example’s of Dwindle’s product innovations. In this rare behind-the-scenes tour of the DSM Woodshop, Rodney Mullen explains the tech-deck-making journey from planting the maple seeds in Canadian forests, all the way through their final destination at local skateshops. –Transworld blog post

Check out the video.

WELCOME? Welcome to what, magic DVD player land? Listen, just open the damn tray so I can return Clue to Netflix.

Solaris PAM (specifically pam_unix_account.so.1 I believe) requires all LDAP user entries to belong to objectClass: shadowAccount. If you have no need for user passwords in LDAP like we do, tough luck – you still need to have have this set for each user account.

If you don’t have objectClass: shadowAccount set for a user, he or she will be quietly rejected login to the host in question. Syslog will show No account present for user.