wiredfool

But since I’m not into short days, I’m trying to prolong this day by flying across the country.

I’m sure that it will feel like ages before I see the end of this day.

I hate computer hardware. Especially flakey computer hardware. Most especially, I hate flakey hardware that has been in use just long enough to accumulate a bit of important data (say 8 hours), that dies 2 hours before your regularly scheduled friendly backup.

I just want it to work. Let me get on with the interesting things in life, and not worry about this ide connector seating improperly, or if the jumper is wrong, or if Murphy decides to randomly zap a drive.

Btw, the drive noise of the day is “Clunk [pause] Clunk [pause] Clunk”. That’s the sound of 40 gigs of space that’s not there. Or maybe it’s the sound of one head clapping.

I do like some hardware. I like the toys. I like the blinkeyleds. I really like the blinkeyleds.

No Lutefisk will be served in resturants in Seattle this Christmas.

• Barcode Recognition in Python, in a functional style
• Flashing a Linksys WRT54GL with OpenWRT
• Flashing a Buffalo Airstation WBR2-G54 with OpenWRT
• How to build the Python Imaging Library For Windows
• Widescreen LCDs and Ubuntu Linux
• “Frontier and Apache, 1 Public Port”
• “Manila Behind Apache”
• “Frontier on Wine”
• Frontier and apache, 2 ports (Revised 4/19/2002)
• “Sample Port Forwarding Script” sets up port forwarding at startup.
• Server Management for OSX Also needs to be revised, but more for new practices than accuracy.
• Setting up a rh 6.2 box to my specs. Probably should be updated to Debian.
• Manila Feature Requests
• rpc handler patches and glue.

Documentation by others

• Frontier server Monitor
• Manila behind Apache
• Updated portforwarding

Great. I get linked because I’m either not talking about scripting or not updating often enough.

Sometimes I feel like it’s all I can do to keep up with entropy. I keep trying to get rid of it, but it keeps coming back.

I had a nightmare recently.

The scene: Downtown Seattle. Grey. (Deadpan) Wet. Rush Hour. Winter.

A Cyclist is riding, wearing somewhat dirty clothes, riding a cross bike. (think racing hybrid) When suddenly out of the corner of his eye… A shining Smiling Gap clad Guy on a Segway, bearing down on him. The cyclist takes a quick turn, and there’s another Gap Guy, coming out of an alley.

A quick drop down a flight of stairs, and there’s another one. Smiling. Chasing. Relentless. Every escape leads to another Smiling Gap Guy. The nightmare ends at street like Queen Anne or Denny (18% grade) as the cross rider gets slower and slower honking up the hill.

It ends because I wake up. I don’t know if the bike rider gets away.

It’s the depth of winter. The next 5 days, according to the Seattle PI:

Showers giving way to some sun late.
Showers daily, then some clearing.
Windy with periods of rain.
Still windy with rain possible.
Cooler, chance of lingering showers.

There’s a reason that there is an espresso stand on every corner in this city. On the other hand, at least the weather will be different for a few days.

*** 28 words for Grey

An art installation. People near Portland should check this out. From Whim (noonish) through Cubicle (heavy clearing rain) to Dumper (rain during afternoon rush hour).

*** One promotion to bind them all…

One Ring of Power Collection to rule them all;
One Ring to Bind Their Power Features;
One Ring to collect all the figures
and in the Ring of Power activate Them.

According to the marquee at the local cinema, tickets are on sale for Lord of the Rings. 14 days ahead of release. Guess there won’t be lines for tickets.

I liked the book. I’m a little dissapointed that I won’t be able to see all three movies right away. The epic scope of the book seems appropriate to immersion reading (5 days for me). Splitting the movies over three years makes it hard for the impatient among us.

Ho Hum. There’s another virus, hits outlook users, shuts down business networks as everyone opens attachments and infects their friends. Wonder how much this one is going to cost?

Of course, I can sit here smugly, as I haven’t used Outlook or Windows in years. I’m probably going to code a new virus filter for my email client. It will be very simple. If the useragent is Outlook/Outlook Express and it has an attachment other than a gif or jpeg, html or text, it will get flagged as a possible virus. On the server.