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GRAFFITI -- June 14, 2004 thru June 20, 2004>> Link to the Current Week <<Last Week << Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun >> Next Week Welcome to Orb Graffiti, a place for me to write daily about life and computers. Contrary to popular belief, the two are not interchangeable. About eMail - I publish email sometimes. If you send me an email and you want privacy or anonymity, please say so clearly at the beginning of your message. |
 
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June 14, 2004
0700 - Good morning. Not much to report. In the basement woodshop, I got the wall final sanded, primed and painted, then I started priming, and hung the door. I spent a significant number of hours working on the ETS site, and of course got in some quality yard time with the mower, as well as weeding out the front beds. Saturday was a gorgeous sunny & mild day, yesterday was cloudy, and rained a bit during the morning. That abated, but it never cleared much.
I really don't have much else to report. Linux continues to work as a stellar desktop environment for me, and Gentoo's solid enough for me to stay with it, although the lazy half of me continues to be tempted by Xandros, at least for the work laptop. But first, I'll need to figure out how to do the multiple site network configurations in that distro - I just select from a list I configured, using Gentoo and some custom scripts I wrote. I'd have to adapt that to Xandros, or see if they have an equivalent tool/utility.
This day dawns cloudy, with a forecast for that to continue, and afternoon pop-up thunderstorms as icing on the cake. Now I'd best get to work, I've a fair drive to get there... Take it easy!
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June 15, 2004
0714 - Hullo. A short summary of the last 24 hours: Worked hard, home late, chores done, dinner scarfed, slept badly, upright now. And how is this morning going to go? You ask me... I'm privileged to attend a course on Harassment Training required by one of our clients. No, I'm not sure why, I already KNOW how to harass people, and when it's most effective to do so! Anyway, I'm off. Have a better day than I'm going to.
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June 16, 2004
0730 -Good morning. I got more painting done downstairs last night, and paid bills. That covered the evening. Nothing else of interest, so I'll pass on this guffaw that was being used as filler in a spam I received:
A woman went into a funeral home to make arrangements for her husband's funeral. She told the director that she wanted her husband to be buried in a dark blue suit. He asked, "Wouldn't it just be easier to bury him in the black suit that he's wearing?""No," she insisted as she handed him a check to buy a dark blue suit. "It must be blue."When she came back for the wake, she saw her husband in the coffin, and he was wearing a beautiful blue suit. She told the director how much she loved the suit and asked how much it cost. He said, "Actually, it didn't cost anything. The funniest thing happened. As soon as you left, another corpse was brought in wearing a blue suit. I noticed that they were about the same size, and asked the other widow if she would mind if her husband were buried in a black suit. She said that was fine with her, so I switched the heads."
Have a great day!
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June 17, 2004
0651 - Good morning. I finished painting the frame and door downstairs last night, so what's left for the wall is just to pick up, fit, prime, paint and place a little bit of trim, perhaps 20 linear feet. I had time once again for nothing else in the evening. We ran into a problem on a mail server yesterday, with an update to exim on a Debian box blowing away part of the hand-built and installed Postfix MTA. There are about three approaches to dealing with the problem, but I'll ask around and do a bit of research, then decide and let you know what happened. Now I need to get to work, have a great day!
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June 18, 2004
0654 - Good morning. Another day, another mission. An early meeting yesterday changed the plan for much of yesterday, and through Monday. We're now supporting another department with some networking/firewall configuration issues that have been sitting unresolved for too long. Step one was getting a baseline configuration back onto the firewall appliance (a current model Sonicwall), starting yesterday afternoon. By 8:30 in the evening, we had it. With documentation on the CDROM that didn't match the product, and a stupid browser-dependent interface (it requires IE, but doesn't SAY SO, and trying to work with Netscape only fails a little bit, in such a way as to implicate the hardware, not the browser. I still dunno what made me think to suggest going back to IE...). Anyway, today we make the firewall do it's magic, and if we do well, then I don't work there this weekend.
So, I was home by nine fifteen, dinner, wound down and in bed by about ten thirty. That doesn't leave time to learn anything interesting to share. So I'll wish you a Happy Friday, and enjoy yourself!
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June 19, 2004
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June 20, 2004
0855 - Good morning. I got out of bed in time to lay down and snooze a bit on the couce this morning. Friday turned out to be another long day. Between Thursday and Friday, I accumulated 26 billable hours, not counting breaks. But we got the bits that needed to be working, working. And yesterday, instead of relaxing and recovering, I did all of the accumulated yardwork. Then, finally, to wind down, we went to see Harry Potter in the theatre. What a fun romp that was. I'm still waiting to see how they make the slow-moving fifth book into something cinematic ... but book 4 should make the trip nicely. Today we've the shopping to do, and I don't know what else. Maybe I'll mount that door that I finished up a while back. I've more web work to do, an email server to continue working on for writeup, and other tasks that await. But maybe another nap would be good, too. Happy Father's Day to you fathers out there. Have a good'un.
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