Okay, for those of us using IIS: If your users are getting Real Slow Loading on the pages, then do this:
1. Unset Expiring Immediately the documents (website -> properties -> http headers -> content expiration UNcheck)
2. Set a new http header, called "Expires", value "Thu, 19 Nov 1981 12:00:00 GMT".
Because if you use content expiration, it gives the current time as the expiring time. Great, IF your users are all synchronized to the atomic clocks (like you are, right?!). BAD if they are lagging behind. Grr...
Friday, December 17, 2004
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Pueblo trip
Okay, so I'm in Pueblo. Why, you ask? Ah. Because my work, Signal BHN, has a provider down here, Crossroads TP Inc. They're having a Christmas party. (Note: not Holiday, but Christmas.) So someone at the *Signal* Holiday Party mentioned how we could go down there and train, and the two were combined: we'd come down and go to the party and do training the next day. Signal would pay for hotel, and everyone would be happy.
Except that no one checked with CTP to see if training would be ok for a few days, and then we found out that that was a no-go, but Bill decided we'd still come anyways. We'll just have a meeting to help justify the business expense, and everyone's happy.
So, I thought that it'd be cool if I had that laptop that my mom's work didn't need anymore. And this morning she (the boss) said I could have it!! YAAY!!! So now I'm on the laptop (1GHz,256MB,20GB). I have to wait to wipe it, but only a week or so. Of course, I *did* put alot of time into their new computers, so it's cool, but now I'm happy-happy-happy.
Going back tomorrow, and then I spend day with wife making wife happy. Maybe will see if laptop is good enough to run EQ1. Also got new phones, from Verizon (to whom we switched, they had a good deal and the service is pretty good, too).
Hope to go to shul tomorrow. Almost done reading a really good book, "What shall I do with this people?" by Milton Viorst. Definitely going on my Amazon list (borrowed from local library). Provokes some thought as to Jewish Orthodoxy and history.
Except that no one checked with CTP to see if training would be ok for a few days, and then we found out that that was a no-go, but Bill decided we'd still come anyways. We'll just have a meeting to help justify the business expense, and everyone's happy.
So, I thought that it'd be cool if I had that laptop that my mom's work didn't need anymore. And this morning she (the boss) said I could have it!! YAAY!!! So now I'm on the laptop (1GHz,256MB,20GB). I have to wait to wipe it, but only a week or so. Of course, I *did* put alot of time into their new computers, so it's cool, but now I'm happy-happy-happy.
Going back tomorrow, and then I spend day with wife making wife happy. Maybe will see if laptop is good enough to run EQ1. Also got new phones, from Verizon (to whom we switched, they had a good deal and the service is pretty good, too).
Hope to go to shul tomorrow. Almost done reading a really good book, "What shall I do with this people?" by Milton Viorst. Definitely going on my Amazon list (borrowed from local library). Provokes some thought as to Jewish Orthodoxy and history.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Grr
Okay, I got an external USB hard drive case, and I put a hard drive in it. Works ok. But I want to boot linux off of it. Okay. Installed Gentoo, works great, except that I can't boot it directly. My computers supports booting from USB drives. and I can get grub to start, but then the kernel wants to access root, and it fails because it doesn't know yet about /dev/sda1 and friends. So, I look around, it seems that you have to hack the /linuxrc script to do that. Okay, except I forgot to emerge mkinitrd on it. So, I go to do that, and realize something. I just moved the DSL/wireless router to the living room (got xbox live, expecting halo 2 from SOMEONE on my .. chanukah/christmas/winter gift list), so my computer's not directly connected to the router anymore (I was using ethernet just for my computer since it was here). And the kernel's prism2_usb module ignores my nice little usb nic (which IS a prism2, BTW, but I won't name names as I don't need dlink breathing down my neck about negative reviews...oh, did I say dlink? oh well). So.. now I'm going to see if the 2004.3 cd will recognize it. (hostap didn't recognize it either, and that's annoying as well). I really don't want to pull the dsl back in here just to update gentoo, esp. not if it's not going to work with the wireless nic.
And no retailers in the area seem to carry linux-friends wlan nics anymore. I used to see the occasional orinoco-based ones, although they're kinda more expensive than what I really want to pay. I've heard something about using windows ndis drivers in linux, I need to look into that. (ah.. ndiswrapper!)
But now I'm annoyed. At least I got the apartment picked up (with LOTS of help from, my wife). Still liking the new car. Starting to look forward to the day I have a house. Dunno that that'll happen next year, I gotta check with the banks after the new year to see what they're do. Work's going ok, nothing (yet) to report, I expect Bill, our CEO, to announce something, everyone's kinda buzzing (quietly, mind you), something's in the air, some seem to expect Michael's old duties (official Director of Child Welfare, in reality, Director of Billing, Contracts, Negotiations, Child Welfare, TANF, and anything else Bill wants) to be portioned out to everyone, some seem to think a new position with the same duties but a more realistic title may be likely. I think that he's going to portion out things, and possibly promote someone to COO or something similar (thinking maybe Erik, he's got the long-term standing, and Bill's been hanging in Erik's office alot recently). We'll see.
And no retailers in the area seem to carry linux-friends wlan nics anymore. I used to see the occasional orinoco-based ones, although they're kinda more expensive than what I really want to pay. I've heard something about using windows ndis drivers in linux, I need to look into that. (ah.. ndiswrapper!)
But now I'm annoyed. At least I got the apartment picked up (with LOTS of help from
Talking to the Rabbi
I've finally decided to just talk to the Rabbi about working on a conversion. I know the question's going to come up, probably within the first MINUTE, "Why?". My wife wants to know too, and so I've held off going further without an answer that isn't self-serving or so fluffy-bunny-feel-good as to be meaningless. And I can't really explain why, either. To myself, I have this feeling inside, a yearning, if you will. But explaining it is... very non-trivial.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
To the citizens of the United States of America
Saw this on 's journal:
To the citizens of the United States of America :-
In the light of your failure to elect a proper President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to Cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 97.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit". You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
13. From December 1st the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon - get used to it).
14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your cooperation.
To the citizens of the United States of America :-
In the light of your failure to elect a proper President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to Cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 97.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit". You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
13. From December 1st the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon - get used to it).
14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your cooperation.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Goings on
Liking my new car. Work's going well. Wife's good. Just wanted to actually get some use out of my LiveJournal paid membership.
Saturday, October 02, 2004
New Car
I GOT A NEW CAR!!! YAAAAY!
Okay, it's a 2005 Toyota Matrix. It's got a sunroof, power steering, AC, remote keyless entry. It's a hatchback. It's got the same engine as Shawn's MR2 Spyder. It's a light blue / silver. It's got a 110V AC converter (good for's plug in book light). The dashboard lighting is really cool (and very viewable during the day, IMHO). I'll post some pictures at some point.
We're going to go to Boulder today, to enjoy the car. Oh, there is a yarn store thingy up there, but really, it's to enjoy the car. I want to take it into the mountains, too, and see how it handles that. Maybe Georgetown or something.
It costs 500 a month. Ouch. My old car was worth nothing, but they gave me 200 for it, so I carried a 2000 dollar balance. But I can afford it, and still pay grandma, and still have money left over. This whole middle-class experience is frighteningly weird...
Well, gotta go clean up a little, prod the wife (into getting dressed, of course), and enjoy the day!
Okay, it's a 2005 Toyota Matrix. It's got a sunroof, power steering, AC, remote keyless entry. It's a hatchback. It's got the same engine as Shawn's MR2 Spyder. It's a light blue / silver. It's got a 110V AC converter (good for
We're going to go to Boulder today, to enjoy the car. Oh, there is a yarn store thingy up there, but really, it's to enjoy the car. I want to take it into the mountains, too, and see how it handles that. Maybe Georgetown or something.
It costs 500 a month. Ouch. My old car was worth nothing, but they gave me 200 for it, so I carried a 2000 dollar balance. But I can afford it, and still pay grandma, and still have money left over. This whole middle-class experience is frighteningly weird...
Well, gotta go clean up a little, prod the wife (into getting dressed, of course), and enjoy the day!
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Fun day
Well, Semagic just crashed on me, what fun. Okay, let's see what I remember about my post...
My dad turns 49 (wow, he was around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth) this Sept 15th. Or my math's off. One of the two.
Linux needs a better way to do authentication than NSS and PAM. Actually, I *like* NSS. I don't like PAM. It has to be re-configured for every bloody service, and it's easy to foobar your setup. I just want to authenticate against a server. It can do Kerberos (I won't do that to myself), LDAP (difficult, but possible), WinBind (my boss has found out that this is no substitute for a Real Setup), or even NIS (via Services For Unix). Sadly, it just doesn't work, and there is almost NO real debugging info. Hopefully Novell or IBM jump in, figure it out, and make a cheap (yeah, we'd pay a little (a little!!) for it) program/script/plugin/system to authenticate against a real directory, like LDAP. But it's not fun.
And SFU's NFS server doesn't seem to like doing any useful logging, like why my attempt to write a file fails, even though I've got the permissions set (on both sides it appears correctly) and the share is RW but it doesn't work. Spent half an hour on that one, and decided to give up, I'll just mount my /home/ via samba.
My dad turns 49 (wow, he was around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth) this Sept 15th. Or my math's off. One of the two.
Linux needs a better way to do authentication than NSS and PAM. Actually, I *like* NSS. I don't like PAM. It has to be re-configured for every bloody service, and it's easy to foobar your setup. I just want to authenticate against a server. It can do Kerberos (I won't do that to myself), LDAP (difficult, but possible), WinBind (my boss has found out that this is no substitute for a Real Setup), or even NIS (via Services For Unix). Sadly, it just doesn't work, and there is almost NO real debugging info. Hopefully Novell or IBM jump in, figure it out, and make a cheap (yeah, we'd pay a little (a little!!) for it) program/script/plugin/system to authenticate against a real directory, like LDAP. But it's not fun.
And SFU's NFS server doesn't seem to like doing any useful logging, like why my attempt to write a file fails, even though I've got the permissions set (on both sides it appears correctly) and the share is RW but it doesn't work. Spent half an hour on that one, and decided to give up, I'll just mount my /home/
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Gmail
Gee. How can I describe Gmail. Cool. I am so surprised that some open source / free software webmail project hasn't stolen some UI gem (okay, gems) from gmail. Wow... threaded conversations (it even puts your responses in the same thread, and shows only new unread messages). There aren't folders, but labels, and multiple label per message, so you can organize a message in multiple "virtual folders". Great, once you get used to it. I wish our email system at work was like that...
Working on my spanish again, got my school book out and starting to go through the chapters. Hopefully I'll get back up to my previous low ability and then exceed it. I got a new fan, and boy, does it blow. Really. My old one sucks. Well, not really, but it's pretty close. Sadly, it's a strong enough magnetic field that my monitor at work does NOT like it. Oh well, it can be on the other side of the office.
I think I've finally got all of the XP machines at work with SP2 on them. Not a single problem with it, and I feel happier knowing that when my CEO at work plugs in at some unknown network, it's locked down by default. I still can't decide if I want to put the servers into a real DMZ, being as I'm the only person who's really familar with the network, how to secure it, and if I leave, it would cause real issues if they needed to change the setup. But it'd be MUCH more secure. So I dunno.
Working on my spanish again, got my school book out and starting to go through the chapters. Hopefully I'll get back up to my previous low ability and then exceed it. I got a new fan, and boy, does it blow. Really. My old one sucks. Well, not really, but it's pretty close. Sadly, it's a strong enough magnetic field that my monitor at work does NOT like it. Oh well, it can be on the other side of the office.
I think I've finally got all of the XP machines at work with SP2 on them. Not a single problem with it, and I feel happier knowing that when my CEO at work plugs in at some unknown network, it's locked down by default. I still can't decide if I want to put the servers into a real DMZ, being as I'm the only person who's really familar with the network, how to secure it, and if I leave, it would cause real issues if they needed to change the setup. But it'd be MUCH more secure. So I dunno.
Friday, August 20, 2004
cyrus
Okay, in case I ever need to reconstruct from a cyrus mail server again:
To restore from backups:
cd /var/spool/imap
reconstruct -rf
And in the imap.conf:
sasl_passwd_check: plain
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Today
Saw The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Thought it was kinda cute. Having Mac and Cheese for dinner. Went looking at swimming trunks, didn't like anything I really saw in my size (there was XL and XXL, I might be XL I think). Started the Alexander the Great conquest series in Rise of Nations (cool game, BTW).
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Blogging in the rain...
I'm blogging in the rain! Okay. Finally got my American Communucations problem resolved. Seems that they got new IP addresses, and forgot to tell the static IP address-holders. They called me up, and gave me all the info. Boy, I wish they'd done something sooner. FOUR WEEKS! Unreal. I couldn't talk to their network department guys (NOC), and they kept sending the local guy out, when he could do nothing (and the last time he came out my wife happened to be there, which she didn't like, but I got on the phone, and I told him the problem (do they not send the notes out to the techs, or did the nice customer service people not write down a word I said??) and he agreed that there was nothing he could do, but his boss could get the NOC people to call me). A serious lack of decent customer service. And we're still occasionally getting packets dropped and some lag, but it's nowhere near as bad.
Okay, that aside, I'm happy with them. I can get a static IP, at least. So now I'll setup a IPv6 tunnel at home and play with that some. I also hope to get a Novell linux server up here soon, probably using my current Suse 9.0 Professional setup (we'll see if that "works" or not). Or maybe I'll just setup some virtualization thing. Dunno. Maybe I'll set it up at work. I definitely want to start working on that though, I've got my eyes on a Novell Certified Linux Engineer cert, and my boss even mentioned that Signal might be able to help pay for it (I'm assuming that's if I pass the test).
Took today off, spending some time with Kris. We're dyeing yarn (I put the E in there to make it clear, might even be the right spelling). Vinegar and KoolAid(tm) and yarn. Then she's going to make it into a steering wheel cover. And I got a book on building looms, which includes the details for a number of designs, a tapestry loom (which actually I already own one, GREAT starter setup), a Floor Jack loom, a Table loom, another floor loom, and then some little loom for wristbands (which I'm *not* interested in doing). So that'll be fun.
We're doing the NetFlicks(tm) thing. That's also cool, watched School Ties and Matrix: Revolutions yesterday. Now I think the rest of mine are West Wing Season 2 discs.
Well, gotta to dye yarn.
Okay, that aside, I'm happy with them. I can get a static IP, at least. So now I'll setup a IPv6 tunnel at home and play with that some. I also hope to get a Novell linux server up here soon, probably using my current Suse 9.0 Professional setup (we'll see if that "works" or not). Or maybe I'll just setup some virtualization thing. Dunno. Maybe I'll set it up at work. I definitely want to start working on that though, I've got my eyes on a Novell Certified Linux Engineer cert, and my boss even mentioned that Signal might be able to help pay for it (I'm assuming that's if I pass the test).
Took today off, spending some time with Kris. We're dyeing yarn (I put the E in there to make it clear, might even be the right spelling). Vinegar and KoolAid(tm) and yarn. Then she's going to make it into a steering wheel cover. And I got a book on building looms, which includes the details for a number of designs, a tapestry loom (which actually I already own one, GREAT starter setup), a Floor Jack loom, a Table loom, another floor loom, and then some little loom for wristbands (which I'm *not* interested in doing). So that'll be fun.
We're doing the NetFlicks(tm) thing. That's also cool, watched School Ties and Matrix: Revolutions yesterday. Now I think the rest of mine are West Wing Season 2 discs.
Well, gotta to dye yarn.
Sunday, July 18, 2004
American Communcations Support Request
Okay, I'm hoping that American Communications (which doesn't seem to own any domain searchable on Google, BTW) actually reads this. I do NOT want someone to come out to my place. My wires are JUST FINE. My problem is the static IP that I get from you, and your DHCP servers are happy to serve me (which is good). The thing is, it doesn't seem to be routing to you. It's routing somewhere else. So, either a) it's your routers, and you can fix it, or b) I want a new static IP that is in another block, one that does route to your network.
Sadly, I *have* to have a static IP. Why, you ask? Because you seem to use a really old version of Linux on your routers. And it doesn't forward the port 20 FTP packets back to me, so I can't upload files to my web provider (since you don't provide webspace, I had to get my own), and b) they don't forward protocols other that TCP and UDP, so no VPN will work over the dynamic IPs. And you double-NAT the non-static IPs. They go to a local 192.168.*.* router, and then to 10.1.0.1, and THEN to the real world. And one of those boxes doesn't understand how to back-send traffic other than TCP/UDP, so the end result is that I need a real, honest-to-ARIN IP address. Also, I believe I'm paying for it, so yeah, I want to be able to use it. (You may be asking, how's he on the web? I'm using one of those non-real IPs right now, but I need to be able to use my static IP address.)
This is my static IP info:
IP: 66.250.122.130
NM: 255.255.255.224
GW: 66.250.122.129
NS: 66.250.49.2
NS: 66.250.49.3
From me to known good server:
1 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 66.250.122.129
2 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms 10.1.0.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
From known good server to me:
1 firewall.signalbhn.org (192.168.15.1) 0.294 ms 0.243 ms 0.197 ms
2 63-255-0-102.ip.mcleodusa.net (63.255.0.102) 1.405 ms 1.285 ms 1.261 ms
3 216-43-158-254.dsl.mcleodusa.net (216.43.158.254) 6.320 ms 6.202 ms 6.450 ms
4 dnvtcouzh00jc01-at0-0-0-3.mcleodusa.net (64.198.100.97) 6.653 ms 6.489 ms 6.607 ms
5 chcgilwuh53jc01-at1-0-0-20.mcleodusa.net (64.198.100.2) 32.827 ms 32.525 ms 30.547 ms
6 206.220.243.177 (206.220.243.177) 31.277 ms 31.691 ms 125.841 ms
7 p15-0.core02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.62) 32.338 ms 31.438 ms 32.556 ms
8 p12-0.core01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.33) 43.980 ms 42.705 ms 42.935 ms
9 p5-0.core01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.29) 75.614 ms 53.706 ms 53.877 ms
10 g50.ba01.b000544-0.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.66.170) 54.170 ms 54.109 ms 54.035 ms
11 telosonline.demarc.cogentco.com (66.28.21.42) 54.381 ms 54.962 ms 54.314 ms
12 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 56.193 ms 54.441 ms 54.405 ms
13 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 56.356 ms 65.334 ms 55.041 ms
14 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 55.921 ms 55.116 ms 71.470 ms
15 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 57.667 ms 57.212 ms 57.611 ms
16 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 70.674 ms * 57.832 ms
17 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 60.313 ms 57.200 ms 58.905 ms
18 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 57.723 ms 61.799 ms 65.171 ms
19 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 64.409 ms 57.516 ms 60.903 ms
20 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 138.478 ms
Sadly, I *have* to have a static IP. Why, you ask? Because you seem to use a really old version of Linux on your routers. And it doesn't forward the port 20 FTP packets back to me, so I can't upload files to my web provider (since you don't provide webspace, I had to get my own), and b) they don't forward protocols other that TCP and UDP, so no VPN will work over the dynamic IPs. And you double-NAT the non-static IPs. They go to a local 192.168.*.* router, and then to 10.1.0.1, and THEN to the real world. And one of those boxes doesn't understand how to back-send traffic other than TCP/UDP, so the end result is that I need a real, honest-to-ARIN IP address. Also, I believe I'm paying for it, so yeah, I want to be able to use it. (You may be asking, how's he on the web? I'm using one of those non-real IPs right now, but I need to be able to use my static IP address.)
This is my static IP info:
IP: 66.250.122.130
NM: 255.255.255.224
GW: 66.250.122.129
NS: 66.250.49.2
NS: 66.250.49.3
From me to known good server:
1 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 66.250.122.129
2 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms 10.1.0.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
From known good server to me:
1 firewall.signalbhn.org (192.168.15.1) 0.294 ms 0.243 ms 0.197 ms
2 63-255-0-102.ip.mcleodusa.net (63.255.0.102) 1.405 ms 1.285 ms 1.261 ms
3 216-43-158-254.dsl.mcleodusa.net (216.43.158.254) 6.320 ms 6.202 ms 6.450 ms
4 dnvtcouzh00jc01-at0-0-0-3.mcleodusa.net (64.198.100.97) 6.653 ms 6.489 ms 6.607 ms
5 chcgilwuh53jc01-at1-0-0-20.mcleodusa.net (64.198.100.2) 32.827 ms 32.525 ms 30.547 ms
6 206.220.243.177 (206.220.243.177) 31.277 ms 31.691 ms 125.841 ms
7 p15-0.core02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.62) 32.338 ms 31.438 ms 32.556 ms
8 p12-0.core01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.33) 43.980 ms 42.705 ms 42.935 ms
9 p5-0.core01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.29) 75.614 ms 53.706 ms 53.877 ms
10 g50.ba01.b000544-0.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.66.170) 54.170 ms 54.109 ms 54.035 ms
11 telosonline.demarc.cogentco.com (66.28.21.42) 54.381 ms 54.962 ms 54.314 ms
12 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 56.193 ms 54.441 ms 54.405 ms
13 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 56.356 ms 65.334 ms 55.041 ms
14 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 55.921 ms 55.116 ms 71.470 ms
15 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 57.667 ms 57.212 ms 57.611 ms
16 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 70.674 ms * 57.832 ms
17 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 60.313 ms 57.200 ms 58.905 ms
18 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 57.723 ms 61.799 ms 65.171 ms
19 gwdt1670.telosonline.net (66.28.184.1) 64.409 ms 57.516 ms 60.903 ms
20 66.28.184.94 (66.28.184.94) 138.478 ms
Friday, July 09, 2004
Awake!
I am awake. It it 4:30 in the morning. I don't know what woke me, but I couldn't get back to sleep (although I just yawned, so maybe I'll try again). Managed some emails, told Mandy to we're going to take prisoners next time she comes to Colorado (not that that should scare her away). Can't check my work email, I'll have to look into that today..
Friday, June 25, 2004
june
How is it that I missed this month for the last 27 years? My mother in law says it always rains in June. I can really not remember ever having this much rain in a 2 week period during the summer before, though... It's WONDERFUL. It's raining outside now (I'm on the porch thing). It's so cool, and humid, and it's so envigorating! (Well, it would be tonight, but I just got done with migrating from one server @ work to another, but it's Shabbes, so I'll go into that on Sunday or somewhen.)
Got an oil change and tire rotation, nothing wrong/bad was found (2nd time that's happened, maybe someone is smiling on me?). My plant from work was doing well enough that I decided to get another one, a palm, and take it to work, and bring the asterick ivy home. We'll see how it does outside first, it should actually get some direct sunlight in the morning at least, which is more than it got at work (north facing windows are wonderful, they don't get too hot, and I have a great view of downtown denver IMHO).
If it's raining tomorrow morning, I'm doing shul-at-home. It probably won't, but that's ok. But if it is, there's no way I could waste a good rainy day when I can stay at home and spend half an hour doing the shul thing. The local Rabbi's going on sabbatical, so I probably won't convert anytime soon. I did, though, voluntarily add the pork rule to my eating limits (no shell fish, now no pork). I can't decide if I'm going to go biblical kosher (ie. poulty and fish and meat (aka. mammilian meat) are all separately listed and categorized) or rabbinical kosher (poultry was declared "meat" (aka. in the same category as mammilian meat) by some Rabbis in the... 10th century, I believe).
Also, I can never really decide if I really want to convert. It might cause some conflict btwn and me, and of course there's the question of raising kids. We'd probably have to hem and haw over the exact wording that I could agree to, and the Rabbi would have to be involved, and I dunno if she's really wanting to involve a Rabbi in something that is, from a goy POV, between us two only... Just wait until I get to wanting to add the family purity (aka. no, um, you-know-what for almost 2 weeks a month). But I'm thinking if we do a wedding-like-thing (since we didn't do one in the first place), we might do it in a somewhat stereotypical Jewish theme (chupah, some of the wording/words and the walk around the guy thing, etc...)
She (the wife) does, though, seem supportive of my not eating pork. I'd been afraid that she would really have a problem with it, because it does limit what I can eat (okay, why is it that we can make some 20-odd kind of meats from a pig and only 4 or so from a cow?!). I just declared that I wasn't going to eat pork, and she was like "ok". And I told Janet and Art (inlaws) and they aren't having a problem with it either (which is kinda weird to me, but I can't quite tell what they think of my pursuing Judaism). Haven't told my mom, but she doesn't do pork already herself (most of the time). My mom's pretty supportive of me becoming Jewish.
Got an oil change and tire rotation, nothing wrong/bad was found (2nd time that's happened, maybe someone is smiling on me?). My plant from work was doing well enough that I decided to get another one, a palm, and take it to work, and bring the asterick ivy home. We'll see how it does outside first, it should actually get some direct sunlight in the morning at least, which is more than it got at work (north facing windows are wonderful, they don't get too hot, and I have a great view of downtown denver IMHO).
If it's raining tomorrow morning, I'm doing shul-at-home. It probably won't, but that's ok. But if it is, there's no way I could waste a good rainy day when I can stay at home and spend half an hour doing the shul thing. The local Rabbi's going on sabbatical, so I probably won't convert anytime soon. I did, though, voluntarily add the pork rule to my eating limits (no shell fish, now no pork). I can't decide if I'm going to go biblical kosher (ie. poulty and fish and meat (aka. mammilian meat) are all separately listed and categorized) or rabbinical kosher (poultry was declared "meat" (aka. in the same category as mammilian meat) by some Rabbis in the... 10th century, I believe).
Also, I can never really decide if I really want to convert. It might cause some conflict btwn
She (the wife) does, though, seem supportive of my not eating pork. I'd been afraid that she would really have a problem with it, because it does limit what I can eat (okay, why is it that we can make some 20-odd kind of meats from a pig and only 4 or so from a cow?!). I just declared that I wasn't going to eat pork, and she was like "ok". And I told Janet and Art (inlaws) and they aren't having a problem with it either (which is kinda weird to me, but I can't quite tell what they think of my pursuing Judaism). Haven't told my mom, but she doesn't do pork already herself (most of the time). My mom's pretty supportive of me becoming Jewish.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
The rain was nice while it lasted
Well, the rain was nice while it lasted. It was cold, though, but the air was so CLEAN. Anyways, we've got the place CLEAN. So we'll probably take some pictures of it soon. I'm out on the patio thing again. Reinstalling Gentoo (again, I can't find the drive I actually installed it on, or perhaps I got rid of it??), this time I'm doing raid on the / partition so that if it crashes I can keep working...
I hate Exchange. I was moving mailboxes fine, but the public folders won't sync/move between the servers at all. And the servers didn't want to route to each other, even though they were in the same routing group. I eventually just backed up the PFs to a local PST file and then blew them and the old server off of the Exchange map. Changed the mail store to use the PF on the new server (forgot to change that earlier), and changed the server to make it master of the routing group, and everyone was happy again. Well, except that we had to go around and change everyone's mail setup to use the new server. You'd think they'd put that into the AD so that when you login it knows....
If the CEO didn't require shared calendars, I'd blow away Exchange and put back IMAP in a heartbeat. And if Exchange pulls another "I don't work right" thing again, I may do that anyways, and figure out some other way of sharing calendars, it was a mess.
Did the jewish prayer thing this morning (at home, I've got a siddur and some printouts I like to use occasionally of an online siddur I found once), then proceeded to get ready to have the inlaws over this evening, which went just fine, although they're having fish tomorrow. I'll probably just have TV dinners or somesuch. Oh, that reminds me. Last Shabbes (Saturday) I decided not to have anymore pork, and so far The Wife seems OK with this... My plan to take over the world is proceeding on schedule... hahaha.
I hate Exchange. I was moving mailboxes fine, but the public folders won't sync/move between the servers at all. And the servers didn't want to route to each other, even though they were in the same routing group. I eventually just backed up the PFs to a local PST file and then blew them and the old server off of the Exchange map. Changed the mail store to use the PF on the new server (forgot to change that earlier), and changed the server to make it master of the routing group, and everyone was happy again. Well, except that we had to go around and change everyone's mail setup to use the new server. You'd think they'd put that into the AD so that when you login it knows....
If the CEO didn't require shared calendars, I'd blow away Exchange and put back IMAP in a heartbeat. And if Exchange pulls another "I don't work right" thing again, I may do that anyways, and figure out some other way of sharing calendars, it was a mess.
Did the jewish prayer thing this morning (at home, I've got a siddur and some printouts I like to use occasionally of an online siddur I found once), then proceeded to get ready to have the inlaws over this evening, which went just fine, although they're having fish tomorrow. I'll probably just have TV dinners or somesuch. Oh, that reminds me. Last Shabbes (Saturday) I decided not to have anymore pork, and so far The Wife seems OK with this... My plan to take over the world is proceeding on schedule... hahaha.
Sunday, June 13, 2004
drivers and parking lots
(rant) Okay, I don't know what these drivers are thinking. I was going down a ONE-WAY row in the local WalMart parking lot, and this person stops at the end, where she, going along the edge, had right of way, and waits for me to exit. I was waiting for her to move, and she didn't, so I went, and then she went down, the WRONG WAY, the row. And it's not like her car is a VW Bug or something! I see so many drivers doing this, and it pisses me off, because then *I* have to make room for them, and they waste their and my time doing this! I swear, you should have to pass a test to renew your license, it's unreal. (end rant)
We got swivel stools for the kitchen island/table, and we're going to use the grill tonight, although I don't know what I'll make, maybe burgers or something..
And I got sandals (not flipflops). They feel ok, dunno yet if I'll want to get good ones (I got $5 ones at Walmart to see if they feel ok at least).
We got swivel stools for the kitchen island/table, and we're going to use the grill tonight, although I don't know what I'll make, maybe burgers or something..
And I got sandals (not flipflops). They feel ok, dunno yet if I'll want to get good ones (I got $5 ones at Walmart to see if they feel ok at least).
Morning..
Well, I wish I could go back to bed. But can't get back to sleep, even though I'm rather tired. So I'll blog for a minute then go make breakfast.
Yesterday evening we went and got a George Foreman (tm?) Grill. We'll probably use it in the next couple of days to make sure it works. The pieces don't really snap together or something, they just kinda "lay there".
Gave Shawn alot of pointers on network administration, esp. in regards to Windows 2000 Server (tm). I'll be helping him out as he starts out at his new job at Crystals, an adult-toy shop.
Got the rebate check from HP on my computer, we should have Kristin's as well, or perhaps it'll come in tomorrow. Hopefully the MicroCenter ones come through soon, they're $80.
But the best thing: someone's living in the old trailer. Which means it got sold. Yay! The part of my life can now be completely deleted from memory... well, mostly.
Well, the tummy's arumbling, so I'm gonna go get breakfast.
Yesterday evening we went and got a George Foreman (tm?) Grill. We'll probably use it in the next couple of days to make sure it works. The pieces don't really snap together or something, they just kinda "lay there".
Gave Shawn alot of pointers on network administration, esp. in regards to Windows 2000 Server (tm). I'll be helping him out as he starts out at his new job at Crystals, an adult-toy shop.
Got the rebate check from HP on my computer, we should have Kristin's as well, or perhaps it'll come in tomorrow. Hopefully the MicroCenter ones come through soon, they're $80.
But the best thing: someone's living in the old trailer. Which means it got sold. Yay! The part of my life can now be completely deleted from memory... well, mostly.
Well, the tummy's arumbling, so I'm gonna go get breakfast.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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Monday, May 24, 2004
blogging in the rain...
I'm sitting outside. Watching the rain. Outside. I just bought a linksys DWL-650. Loving it. 16-bit you say. Well, my old laptop was a 486.. And this is a P150. with a 500 MB hd from the old laptop. Wow! That's old. Old, but FREE. So, I'm blogging in the rain. (I had a usb dlink thing, which is on my XP desktop inside the window, and I finally got them to talk to each other, note to self: don't try to connect wireless cards when they are less than 4 feet apart, like the manual says, or they don't see each others....).
Anyways, work was slow today, did some code cleanup, some server junk cleanup. Will dial in tonight to restart a server or two.
Need to remember to go out to garage and get optical mouse that came with desktops for laptop (we had nice mice already). They're PS2, and should work with this old thing.
And, it's battery doesn't suck, either. It's not great (probably would last ~70 mins or so, I think), but it's better than none (which the 486 might as well have had).
I'll go in in a minute and get the wife some ice cream or something for letting me go outside and get cold (NOT wet, not with a computer..). She's nice. :)
Anyways, work was slow today, did some code cleanup, some server junk cleanup. Will dial in tonight to restart a server or two.
Need to remember to go out to garage and get optical mouse that came with desktops for laptop (we had nice mice already). They're PS2, and should work with this old thing.
And, it's battery doesn't suck, either. It's not great (probably would last ~70 mins or so, I think), but it's better than none (which the 486 might as well have had).
I'll go in in a minute and get the wife some ice cream or something for letting me go outside and get cold (NOT wet, not with a computer..). She's nice. :)
Thursday, May 20, 2004
okay, when installing fedora core 2 on Microsoft Virtual PC, and you got the DVD version, here's a hint: boot from the boot.iso file, then, host the DVD on a web server, like apache under cygwin, which you probably have loaded, or can load like I just did. Then, choose HTTP for the install and away you go. VPC doesn't seem to like booting from a DVD, even a bootable one...
Monday, May 17, 2004
sick..
Ugh. Don't feel too good this morning, taking the day off of work. Throat's scratchy, all over achy, a little warm. Took some DayQuil, we'll see if it helps. I've been setting up Virtual PC trial edition since last night. I'm liking it, I setup Solaris 8 for i386, NetWare 6 (although I haven't gotten the NIC to work yet), Debian testing (sarge), Windows 2003 (I got from a local user group). Now I can setup my own home networking lab, which I think may be pretty cool. Oh, and FreeBSD 5.2.1, which I'm trying to update to Gnome 2.6. Much easier and safer than trying to use my own real hard drives...
Hopefully it stays cool today, although it probably won't. Will probably go back to bed later.
Hopefully it stays cool today, although it probably won't. Will probably go back to bed later.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Thursday, May 06, 2004
New Computers
Well, we ( and I) got new computers last night. Took me awhile to set it up, and I'm sure I'm missing stuff (like, Money 2003's file). I'm hoping this Saturday to setup my old computer for mom so she can get a new-to-her computer. So, instead of a 500, I've got a equiv-to-3000 machine. Niiice. I can run EverQuest again, and Conquerors quite nicely.
It's pretty nice, it's got 2 Firewire (tm - Apple) ports, "IEEE1394". Honestly, just license the name from Apple, it would make life easier for everyone. Anyways, that, plus 5 USB 2.0 ports, a 160 GB hard drive (which I need to resize to fit Linux(tm) on), a DVD burner + CD-RW drive. I'm happy. She's happy. We're happy.
We're also getting new glasses, although I'm going to keep my old ones for emergencies.
We were able to afford these because my work gave me ~$3700 net backpay. Because the accountant noticed that since last (LAST) january I'd been underpaid. So, we got new computers, new glasses, etc. Well, life goes on. I'm hoping to save some of it, but alot of it will go where it might have had I had it in the first place.
It's pretty nice, it's got 2 Firewire (tm - Apple) ports, "IEEE1394". Honestly, just license the name from Apple, it would make life easier for everyone. Anyways, that, plus 5 USB 2.0 ports, a 160 GB hard drive (which I need to resize to fit Linux(tm) on), a DVD burner + CD-RW drive. I'm happy. She's happy. We're happy.
We're also getting new glasses, although I'm going to keep my old ones for emergencies.
We were able to afford these because my work gave me ~$3700 net backpay. Because the accountant noticed that since last (LAST) january I'd been underpaid. So, we got new computers, new glasses, etc. Well, life goes on. I'm hoping to save some of it, but alot of it will go where it might have had I had it in the first place.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
The place
Well, we've got almost everything except the last of the books up, and we've got a bookshelf for those, just needs a backing.
The next Harry Potter movie should be out this year, and there's another movie coming out, I forget which one...
The wife's making a tube. She's knitting it. Well, she was, and then she stopped while I tyuped out my journal. Anyways...
Work's going ok, putting together a new database server, but we still need alot of optimizations and all...
Oh, and I *finally* am getting the LCD screen for Shawn's old cell phone, so Kris can decide on one of the phones and I get the other one.
The next Harry Potter movie should be out this year, and there's another movie coming out, I forget which one...
The wife's making a tube. She's knitting it. Well, she was, and then she stopped while I tyuped out my journal. Anyways...
Work's going ok, putting together a new database server, but we still need alot of optimizations and all...
Oh, and I *finally* am getting the LCD screen for Shawn's old cell phone, so Kris can decide on one of the phones and I get the other one.
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Let's see, it snowed last night. Was actually nicely raining, turned to snow, so after we saw Ella Enchanted (which, by the way, I thought was a rather good movie, but I like simple-to-digest movies right now), we had some Qdoba and then went home. And used the garage. Ha! My car wasn't covered in snow like everyone elses. Hehe. Anyways, because of the snow (~3" or more around here), I didn't go to shul (being as it's rather far from here, and you don't have to go, so I didn't). I did take the wife to the bank for her work, and dropped her back off at her work. Then visited my family, ended up running around all day with them. Picked up kristin, dropped her off at home, with Tony, and then mom and I proceeded to run around some more. Finally, finallly, I'm home and can rest.
Tomorrow, we go have lunch with the Baileys. That reminds me, I've been breaking kosher l'pesach, sadly. I tried to keep passover-kosher at least outside of the house, but I've broken it a number of times, and at this point I'm only keeping it at work. Next year. I'm thinking of trying to go Basic Biblical Kosher (ie. no pork, shellfish, and no cooking meat in milk, but once it's cooked it might be fair game, oh, and poultry, like fish, was listed separately from "meat" in the Torah, so I consider it a separate group. Just because some German (?) Rabbis decided that too many jews were having poultry instead of "meat" on erev shabbes (at which point they decided that poultry was grouped with "meat", even though they are always listed separately, and fish isn't considered "meat"), doesn't mean that *I* have to merge them. So I can have chicken and cheese soup. Or something edible like that. Or something poultry-ish and cheese-ish. Anyways, I think that that system seems pretty simple. No shell fish is EASY for me. I didn't grow up eating fish or any seafood. Tuna in a can from the supermarket is NOT really fish or seafood, but some processed *thing* that resembles it. Kinda. I know, I've recently had tuna steak, and it was rather good. No pork will be harder, but we'll see about subsituting it... And not cooking meat in milk, I don't think I've ever actually done that....
Finally, I'm choosing recumbent for my mood because I have no clue what it means.
Tomorrow, we go have lunch with the Baileys. That reminds me, I've been breaking kosher l'pesach, sadly. I tried to keep passover-kosher at least outside of the house, but I've broken it a number of times, and at this point I'm only keeping it at work. Next year. I'm thinking of trying to go Basic Biblical Kosher (ie. no pork, shellfish, and no cooking meat in milk, but once it's cooked it might be fair game, oh, and poultry, like fish, was listed separately from "meat" in the Torah, so I consider it a separate group. Just because some German (?) Rabbis decided that too many jews were having poultry instead of "meat" on erev shabbes (at which point they decided that poultry was grouped with "meat", even though they are always listed separately, and fish isn't considered "meat"), doesn't mean that *I* have to merge them. So I can have chicken and cheese soup. Or something edible like that. Or something poultry-ish and cheese-ish. Anyways, I think that that system seems pretty simple. No shell fish is EASY for me. I didn't grow up eating fish or any seafood. Tuna in a can from the supermarket is NOT really fish or seafood, but some processed *thing* that resembles it. Kinda. I know, I've recently had tuna steak, and it was rather good. No pork will be harder, but we'll see about subsituting it... And not cooking meat in milk, I don't think I've ever actually done that....
Finally, I'm choosing recumbent for my mood because I have no clue what it means.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Okay, so I have a night to program, I'm ready to work on OpenHMS, my HTTP Mail server I'm writing, and my luck, the backend hotmail server my hotmail accounts are on are offline. Grrrr. I can get MS OE6 to login, but it goes to the folder query and fails, there's some extra tag or something, and now I can't compare it (my previous dumps only show folders with only messages, not folders with subfolders..)
Sunday, March 28, 2004
updates
By the way, we have a new website, WiegandFamily.com, which has both Kris' and my websites. I've posted some pictures I had lying around. So.... sent out the address change cards a few days ago, started getting some contacts from people I hadn't heard from in awhile, though not everyone yet. The weather was nice yesterday, the high was 57 F. Sadly, winter must leave, and it will get hot. Man do I wish Colorado had a real ocean coastline, then the weather wouldn't be as bad, and we'd get some rain even.... (and no, I will *not* move to California!).
I should get my raise this summer, really it's a pay adjustment, from $41K a year to ~$55K a year. Dmitriy makes $57K a year, and I told them that I was worth to them just as much as he is, we do similar work, so I should get similar pay. They agreed. I don't know if I'll get his pay scale or not, but definitely a Real Pay Raise. I won't see it until July, but still, it's nice to look forward to.
I'm starting to look at possible places to vacation this year. Especially since I'll have that raise, I should be able to save up to take a late-summer vacation. I don't know where, yet, though. Kristin wants someday to go out of the country (we'd go to Canada, the water's safe there). I wouldn't mind visiting Germany again, but my german is rustier than it was back in high school, and it would be EXPENSIVE to go overseas. I think we'll stay on this side of the world. Places I've thought about: Florida (Kris wants to go to Sea World and all), New York (I love NYC, and upstate NY is supposed to be beautiful when the leaves change), Texas (father's family), Wyoming (friend), Washington state (mother's distant family). We visited South Dakota last year, so I think maybe this year we'll go somewhere else (sorry guys!).
Oh, and I emailed the rabbi here to see if this year I could get in on a seder, and still haven't heard back. I'll probably email the office email addy Monday if there's no response... Last year I didn't go to one because Micah's seder was too blasted expensive. Previously I've always gone to Micah's. Oh well.
I should get my raise this summer, really it's a pay adjustment, from $41K a year to ~$55K a year. Dmitriy makes $57K a year, and I told them that I was worth to them just as much as he is, we do similar work, so I should get similar pay. They agreed. I don't know if I'll get his pay scale or not, but definitely a Real Pay Raise. I won't see it until July, but still, it's nice to look forward to.
I'm starting to look at possible places to vacation this year. Especially since I'll have that raise, I should be able to save up to take a late-summer vacation. I don't know where, yet, though. Kristin wants someday to go out of the country (we'd go to Canada, the water's safe there). I wouldn't mind visiting Germany again, but my german is rustier than it was back in high school, and it would be EXPENSIVE to go overseas. I think we'll stay on this side of the world. Places I've thought about: Florida (Kris wants to go to Sea World and all), New York (I love NYC, and upstate NY is supposed to be beautiful when the leaves change), Texas (father's family), Wyoming (friend), Washington state (mother's distant family). We visited South Dakota last year, so I think maybe this year we'll go somewhere else (sorry guys!).
Oh, and I emailed the rabbi here to see if this year I could get in on a seder, and still haven't heard back. I'll probably email the office email addy Monday if there's no response... Last year I didn't go to one because Micah's seder was too blasted expensive. Previously I've always gone to Micah's. Oh well.
Sunday, March 14, 2004
You are the chinese element of Water. People who
are under the element of Water are creative,
independent and intelligent. Water you are a
dreamer, but are quite vulnerable, and have
hidden agendas. The color of water is black,
and your symbol is the tortoise. Winter is the
season in which Water shines and it's months
are October/November. Your weather condition
is cold. Water is the direction of north, and
your day is Wednesday, while your planet is
Mercury. Animals under your element are
usually shelled. People under you are Turks.
Your sense is hearing, your taste is salty,
your sound is moaning and your virtue is
knowledge. Your organs are the kidneys. You
were created by Metal and control Fire.
Which of the 5 Chinese Elements Are You?
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Well, just got a Lexmark P707 printer, hoping it will work ok.
Have gotten OHMS a little further, now it can query a folder on the backend, but tying that to the mod_perl handler seems to be giving me problems. Ah, but why can't Perl do hashes in arrays in hashes, using refs all around? *sigh*
We're nicely moved in, we're moving books from the Bailey's over to here and putting stuff up. I think we might be ready for a house-warming next weekend, but we'll see, it depends on how much we get done around here this week.
Used the sandwich maker for the first time this morning, it was good. Skipped lunch, had turkey sausage for dinner (no, it wasn't kosher).
Moved WAY too many boxes full of books today - 5 boxes, then a media cabinet, the DVDs that had been in the cabinet,
Now that we've got a photo-capable printer, we'll probably take some photos of the place, and us in them, and update our photos on the website and send them out to friends. :)
Have gotten OHMS a little further, now it can query a folder on the backend, but tying that to the mod_perl handler seems to be giving me problems. Ah, but why can't Perl do hashes in arrays in hashes, using refs all around? *sigh*
We're nicely moved in, we're moving books from the Bailey's over to here and putting stuff up. I think we might be ready for a house-warming next weekend, but we'll see, it depends on how much we get done around here this week.
Used the sandwich maker for the first time this morning, it was good. Skipped lunch, had turkey sausage for dinner (no, it wasn't kosher).
Moved WAY too many boxes full of books today - 5 boxes, then a media cabinet, the DVDs that had been in the cabinet,
Now that we've got a photo-capable printer, we'll probably take some photos of the place, and us in them, and update our photos on the website and send them out to friends. :)
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Dante
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Third Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Moderate |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
"May barbarians invade your personal
space!"
You are highly confrontational and possibly in a
bad mood. You would have sworn in this quiz,
if I had made it an option.
Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You?
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Well, I've come down with something, dunno what. Finally got the monitoring server at work up and running, now I'm playing with DBI in perl to monitor the sql server 2000 box. We have a new domain, www.wiegandfamily.com and new email addresses underneath. Not much else going on, although sometime we're going to start going through this stuff in the new place.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Fallen donkeys
לֹא תִרְאֶה אֶת חֲמוֹר אָחִיךָ אוֹ שׁוֹרוֹ, נֹפְלִים בַּדֶּרֶךְ, וְהִתְעַלַּמְתָּ, מֵהֶם: הָקֵם תָּקִים, עִמּוֹ.
You shall not see your neighbor's donkey fallen and not help him.
Okay, I fulfilled this mitzvah tonight. On my walk (which I started to do again, I hope), I saw someone in the middle of the street, in the turn lane, with his car sitting there. I asked if his donkey was fallen and can't get up... wait... er... if his car was having problems. I ended up helping him push and steer the car off to the side of a minor crossroad and then some other people drove by and helped him to start the car. I left after they started to help him with the starting (being as I really don't know much about cars except I turn the key and push the pedals...)
You shall not see your neighbor's donkey fallen and not help him.
Okay, I fulfilled this mitzvah tonight. On my walk (which I started to do again, I hope), I saw someone in the middle of the street, in the turn lane, with his car sitting there. I asked if his donkey was fallen and can't get up... wait... er... if his car was having problems. I ended up helping him push and steer the car off to the side of a minor crossroad and then some other people drove by and helped him to start the car. I left after they started to help him with the starting (being as I really don't know much about cars except I turn the key and push the pedals...)
Monday, February 23, 2004
Okay, we're finally moved in. *groan* I have lost 9 pounds on the Move-Out-In-Out-In exercise plan in just one month! Really. I weighed myself. What a difference moving 1 1/2 times makes...
We're mostly moved out of the trailer, so soon I can hand that over to the park and then be done with that. And our "area" in the Baileys' house is getting smaller slowly, but they're just down the street and not moving anytime soon, so we're ok there.
The internet here is slower, 'cause it's DSL and only about 500K instead of the 3000K I was getting from Comcast, but oh well. I got the washer installed (after getting new hoses for it), and the dryer installed (even though it tried hard to resist - the apartment comes with a very oval like opening for the dryer vent and my dryer, like all others, has a round opening, and the dryer came with a 3-prong and not 4-prong wire so I had to change that out too), and the bed put together. Mostly...
So now we kinda switch into unpacking mode, and next weekend I'm taking Saturday off from doing anything except driving the wife to work. If the car's still working...
We're mostly moved out of the trailer, so soon I can hand that over to the park and then be done with that. And our "area" in the Baileys' house is getting smaller slowly, but they're just down the street and not moving anytime soon, so we're ok there.
The internet here is slower, 'cause it's DSL and only about 500K instead of the 3000K I was getting from Comcast, but oh well. I got the washer installed (after getting new hoses for it), and the dryer installed (even though it tried hard to resist - the apartment comes with a very oval like opening for the dryer vent and my dryer, like all others, has a round opening, and the dryer came with a 3-prong and not 4-prong wire so I had to change that out too), and the bed put together. Mostly...
So now we kinda switch into unpacking mode, and next weekend I'm taking Saturday off from doing anything except driving the wife to work. If the car's still working...
Monday, February 09, 2004
Okay, I get to pay IRS taxes this year because my work didn't pull out enough. Last year I had this problem, and I fixed my W4. I clearly remember doing this. Yet it appears that ADP doesn't know that, they thought I was claiming two. Great. So, now I get to see if our accounting department got the W4, and if so I get to have a field day. In any case, it might delay our moving out into an apartment. Fun fun fun.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
okay, now I'm playing with openMosix at work. kinda fun. we're thinking of using some old machines with this and seeing if we can get any more use out of them...
Saturday, January 31, 2004
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Quoting from BeliefNet:
davidhoward
1/29/04 3:17 PM 9 out of 10
Why convert?
Why not just be Jewish and forget about the conversion racket?
Most Jews will take your assertion that you are Jewish at face value. There are no Jewish police checking passports or circumcisions. Rabbis have no magical status as "converters." Their conversion rules are mutually contradictory among the different denominations, and in the worst cases, they make up the rules as they go along.
Save yourself a lot of aggravation. Find fellow-Jews who are welcoming and inclusive. There are plenty of them. The rabbinical validation is a sham and often a scam.
David
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Indeed, from what I've read they (the Rabbis) don't have any authority to accept/deny converts. Exodus 12:61 (I *think*, I'd look it up but I'm on my lunch break and my chumash is at home) allows strangers who observe the passover to be with the Jews, and ruth certainly didn't ask 3 rabbis to join, she didn't even ask!
But it is kinda difficult, to just say starting today "I'm jewish now." Maybe I should see about making some ritual to help mark the changing point... Dunno. Guess I hafta think about it. No one really goes around checking that jews really are jews, and certainly I'd be put in a camp if I lived in germany around WW II.
davidhoward
1/29/04 3:17 PM 9 out of 10
Why convert?
Why not just be Jewish and forget about the conversion racket?
Most Jews will take your assertion that you are Jewish at face value. There are no Jewish police checking passports or circumcisions. Rabbis have no magical status as "converters." Their conversion rules are mutually contradictory among the different denominations, and in the worst cases, they make up the rules as they go along.
Save yourself a lot of aggravation. Find fellow-Jews who are welcoming and inclusive. There are plenty of them. The rabbinical validation is a sham and often a scam.
David
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Indeed, from what I've read they (the Rabbis) don't have any authority to accept/deny converts. Exodus 12:61 (I *think*, I'd look it up but I'm on my lunch break and my chumash is at home) allows strangers who observe the passover to be with the Jews, and ruth certainly didn't ask 3 rabbis to join, she didn't even ask!
But it is kinda difficult, to just say starting today "I'm jewish now." Maybe I should see about making some ritual to help mark the changing point... Dunno. Guess I hafta think about it. No one really goes around checking that jews really are jews, and certainly I'd be put in a camp if I lived in germany around WW II.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Friday, January 23, 2004
Okay, here's something: my wife asked me, "Why would any sane person want to join a persecuted minority?" I might be missing a few words...
So, I've been thinking. I still can't come up with a great answer. Things like "because Jews have a good (religious) path, a sensible culture, have beliefs that don't require I drop all sensibility or common sense, and aren't a cult" resonate, but one could be a Muslim or Catholic and have much of that... So, I must ask myself, "What makes Judaism so important that I would be willing to be persecuted for it, or am I just interested in it while it's not really persecuted?" I live in America, and although I don't live in New York, still, no one goes around making anti-semetic jokes, at least, not in my presense... So, for me, the persecution thing isn't something I worry about too much, although I will admit when I wear a yarmulke I'm pretty constantly aware that I am broadcasting "here I am, shoot me now" (okay, okay, bad joke, mercedes lackey's fans will get it).
So, would I be willing to be jewish even if people were anti-semetic here? Hmmmmm.... I probably would have to do things privately, but in the end, I can't really answer it without actually being there, experiencing it. I also think that after my (hopefully eventual) conversion it wouldn't be a question, the answer would just be "of course".
So, even in this environment, why be jewish? One can do good works without being Jewish (although I don't see other religions, Islam, Catholicism, Wicca, requiring doing good works or having many detailed ways to make it "holy" or elevating it beyond just doing it because it's expected of you). One can eat special diets without being Jewish - Islam has restrictions that are very similar with Judaism here...
For me, I think it's a combination, of a culture that disdains materialism (which I see a being kin to idolatry), specifies many details of ways to do things but still allowing flexibility to "do things your way" while allowing beginners to "just do it" (by following the steps). It doesn't believe it's the "one true way", just a way. When I took the beliefnet quiz on which religion one should be, reform judaism and orthodox judaism were 100% and 98%, respectively. And I think I agree with that. It fits, at least pretty well. I'm still asocial, so it's hard for me to "reach out" to other people.
But just because the religion makes sense doesn't mean that I should join a persecuted people. Maybe I'll get inspiration from a Higher Source (if you're listening up there, could ya send that down soon? thanks!).
So, I've been thinking. I still can't come up with a great answer. Things like "because Jews have a good (religious) path, a sensible culture, have beliefs that don't require I drop all sensibility or common sense, and aren't a cult" resonate, but one could be a Muslim or Catholic and have much of that... So, I must ask myself, "What makes Judaism so important that I would be willing to be persecuted for it, or am I just interested in it while it's not really persecuted?" I live in America, and although I don't live in New York, still, no one goes around making anti-semetic jokes, at least, not in my presense... So, for me, the persecution thing isn't something I worry about too much, although I will admit when I wear a yarmulke I'm pretty constantly aware that I am broadcasting "here I am, shoot me now" (okay, okay, bad joke, mercedes lackey's fans will get it).
So, would I be willing to be jewish even if people were anti-semetic here? Hmmmmm.... I probably would have to do things privately, but in the end, I can't really answer it without actually being there, experiencing it. I also think that after my (hopefully eventual) conversion it wouldn't be a question, the answer would just be "of course".
So, even in this environment, why be jewish? One can do good works without being Jewish (although I don't see other religions, Islam, Catholicism, Wicca, requiring doing good works or having many detailed ways to make it "holy" or elevating it beyond just doing it because it's expected of you). One can eat special diets without being Jewish - Islam has restrictions that are very similar with Judaism here...
For me, I think it's a combination, of a culture that disdains materialism (which I see a being kin to idolatry), specifies many details of ways to do things but still allowing flexibility to "do things your way" while allowing beginners to "just do it" (by following the steps). It doesn't believe it's the "one true way", just a way. When I took the beliefnet quiz on which religion one should be, reform judaism and orthodox judaism were 100% and 98%, respectively. And I think I agree with that. It fits, at least pretty well. I'm still asocial, so it's hard for me to "reach out" to other people.
But just because the religion makes sense doesn't mean that I should join a persecuted people. Maybe I'll get inspiration from a Higher Source (if you're listening up there, could ya send that down soon? thanks!).
Well, I like Soy "Silk Milk" if it's chocolate.
What else? Busy at work, found out that the billing system needs to work by Thursday or the CEO will be pissed, boss hadn't told me that...
Liking chees-its. Bought a small plant for work, it was cheap and I decided to see if my thumb is still black.
Gonna go to Congregation Emanuel's Shabbat Unplugged. I like it. Alot. I really wish they'd come out with a CD of those songs - I'd have to get two - one for permanent backup in case of loss, and one for daily use (which would probably stay at work until I get a car with a CD player builtin).
Speaking of cars, looks like we may postpone getting a new car, wants to look at getting a condo/townhome/house, at which point I'd have to save up gobs of money so no new car. But I still love her.
What else? Busy at work, found out that the billing system needs to work by Thursday or the CEO will be pissed, boss hadn't told me that...
Liking chees-its. Bought a small plant for work, it was cheap and I decided to see if my thumb is still black.
Gonna go to Congregation Emanuel's Shabbat Unplugged. I like it. Alot. I really wish they'd come out with a CD of those songs - I'd have to get two - one for permanent backup in case of loss, and one for daily use (which would probably stay at work until I get a car with a CD player builtin).
Speaking of cars, looks like we may postpone getting a new car,
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The car worked today. Finally. Oy, but I really hate this car. No, it's not the car, per se, since it's not (to my knowledge) sentient, but the emotional rollercoaster my reliance on it causes...
Got paid livejournal status today for 6 months, gave it to as well (wife person). I think I'll like it, although I prefer the old S1 theme style that I'm using right now (something to do with paper). The new S2 theme style engine seems altogether too complex, but we'll see.
It's cold outside (snowed today), my car's working again (seems it didn't like my tank of gas so the Service Engine Soon light was on continously - man I hate this car), and I get to go to the dentist Thursday. Man I'm happy!
Got paid livejournal status today for 6 months, gave it to
It's cold outside (snowed today), my car's working again (seems it didn't like my tank of gas so the Service Engine Soon light was on continously - man I hate this car), and I get to go to the dentist Thursday. Man I'm happy!
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Monday, January 12, 2004
So, we're moving. Gotta talk to the management tomorrow morning about the contract, we'll probably pay for next month to keep a good rental history and get the security deposit back (which will offset most of the rent next month at least).
In so many way I can't wait to be out of here. I'm willing to live with the inlaws just to get rid of this place. Hopefully the wife will stop having bad headaches - I think it might just be this place (and she has voiced this too).
I can close out the bills, save some money, and then we'll probably get an apartment. I'll look into getting a condo or a town home, but I'm not particularly optimistic. From what I've been reading, anywhere in Colorado is pretty expensive, even the boonies...
Hopefully Mandy moves back at the end of the year like she said she might. That would help the wife deal with stuff.
In so many way I can't wait to be out of here. I'm willing to live with the inlaws just to get rid of this place. Hopefully the wife will stop having bad headaches - I think it might just be this place (and she has voiced this too).
I can close out the bills, save some money, and then we'll probably get an apartment. I'll look into getting a condo or a town home, but I'm not particularly optimistic. From what I've been reading, anywhere in Colorado is pretty expensive, even the boonies...
Hopefully Mandy moves back at the end of the year like she said she might. That would help the wife deal with stuff.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Got a buzz cut! I think it looks good, but it definitely feels good. Got some work done today. Called comcast and xcel to close the accounts, except for the internet - we might "park" that account at mom's house while we're moved in with the inlaws...
I get my car back tomorrow, grandma's paying for it to be fixed (radiator's leaking, and I'm not taking my car back to Snow's automotive again, they just worked on it because of leaking and it got worse after leaving!).I hope I get the car so I can go to shul tomorrow night, maybe saturday.
This weekend we'll be packing our last boxes after I help mom's work move desks around.
I get my car back tomorrow, grandma's paying for it to be fixed (radiator's leaking, and I'm not taking my car back to Snow's automotive again, they just worked on it because of leaking and it got worse after leaving!).I hope I get the car so I can go to shul tomorrow night, maybe saturday.
This weekend we'll be packing our last boxes after I help mom's work move desks around.
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Girl is tired. I love Girl. Girl is nice, she lets me sleep.
Okay, ok day today. My car barely started (it was, oh, 10 F or so). The car decided to behave, though, so for now I'll keep it. Mom thinks I should keep the car, but it's just a sinkhole. We'll see. Work was ok, not terribly productive although Dmitriy now gets to do some of the work that was assigned to me.
I think I'm going to finally start work on this idea I've been having: using Perl, Apache, and mod_perl to create an HTTP Mail protocol SERVER. Doing the protocol should be pretty easy - it's XML over WebDAV (why, I don't know). I don't know what kind of backend I want for the Information Store, though... or how I want to talk to that store. Maybe just some perl code to talk mbox and Maildir formats, and maybe I'll eventually throw in a POP3 -> HTTP Mail gateway and IMAP4-> HTTP Mail Gateway too. Maybe not.
Well, I'm off to bed, and sleep thereafter.
Okay, ok day today. My car barely started (it was, oh, 10 F or so). The car decided to behave, though, so for now I'll keep it. Mom thinks I should keep the car, but it's just a sinkhole. We'll see. Work was ok, not terribly productive although Dmitriy now gets to do some of the work that was assigned to me.
I think I'm going to finally start work on this idea I've been having: using Perl, Apache, and mod_perl to create an HTTP Mail protocol SERVER. Doing the protocol should be pretty easy - it's XML over WebDAV (why, I don't know). I don't know what kind of backend I want for the Information Store, though... or how I want to talk to that store. Maybe just some perl code to talk mbox and Maildir formats, and maybe I'll eventually throw in a POP3 -> HTTP Mail gateway and IMAP4-> HTTP Mail Gateway too. Maybe not.
Well, I'm off to bed, and sleep thereafter.
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