I’ve been having some more sedate adventures during the last couple months, so I’ve been remiss in telling y’all what I’ve been up to. Well, now I’m about to start some new stuff, I figured I better flush out the…
A coworker of mine from when I was at Tellme has started a new blog to show and tell what he’s learning and thinking about network configuration management. In his most recent posting it turns out he’s found a paper…
I’m on Jabber as jra@nella.org. I’m running my own server, and supposedly other Jabber servers are supposed to be able to contact mine and send me messages. I’m not convinced it’s really working because my test case didn’t seem to…
They say that the nice thing about Open Source software is that all the users are looking at the source checking it for bugs, so it will be higher quality than closed-source software. Heh. I have proof that people don’t…
Austin Powers is on TV. I totally forgot about the hilarious monolouge by Dr. Evil about his family background: Dr. Evil: The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Therapist (Carrie Fisher): Oh no, please, please, let’s hear about your…
I just noticed a really cool feature of Gmail. This is subtle, so hang in there with me… It, like other mail programs attempts to automatically maintain your address book for you by adding entries for addresses in mail you…
I use Firefox, and I like the little search box thingie in the upper left. I decided it might be fun to figure out how it works by making a search plugin for the website SamSpade.org. Sam Spade looks up…
Hello, all my travel-watchers! Hope you all had a good holiday season. Thanks to those of you who put me up, and those others who asked, “Where are you?” Since I last sent out an update, I’ve returned to the…
Some random observations about Senegal: You must bargain over virtually every purchase. I would have thought that would drive me crazy, but you get used to it. And the Senegalese sense of humor makes it fun, since a huge part…
Hi everyone! We made it to Senegal! This passage was much easier than the last one. It was over 850 miles, so we were prepared for it to take over a week to get here. That’s a long time on…