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Archive for December, 2004

ePartners

If anyone out there has any experience with ePartners, either as a client or employee, I’d be interested in hearing their impressions.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

I just hooked up the iPod2Car. They originally shipped it without the required wiring harness for my car, then were very non-responsive about getting that fixed, but they final caught up with my complaints and overnighted the harness yesterday.

The install was very easy. The hardest part was figuring out a good way to [...]

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Snow

It’s snowing here at the moment. Big wet flakes, mostly melting on contact but it’s sticking a little on the grass and cars. It’s pretty. I’d consider it a lousy snow if I lived up North, but I’ll take what I can get around here.

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Happy Holidays!

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Classic a done deal?

Just setup a new iMac G5 for someone at work. It shipped without Classic support installed. That’s the first Mac I’ve gotten that way…even my G5 shipped with Classic pre-installed.

Monday, December 20th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>

Tin Roof Toasted

No, really.

Friday, December 17th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

.NET timers

.NET timers, both System.Timers.Timer and Windows.Forms.Timer are very unreliable. Just wanted to share.

Friday, December 17th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

Vacant threats of the publishing industry

I’m really tired of trade publications. I’ve managed to successfully get off the circulation roles of a number of the more annoying ones, and limited it to a couple of “freebie” subscriptions that I actually read now and then…but every month, I get the extra cover on the mag, or emails from them, or [...]

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>

ipod2car

I just ordered myself an Xmas present. I’ve looked and looked for a good in-car solution for my iPod all year, and finally decided to get an ipod2car. It works with my existing stereo, and will let the stereo buttons work on the iPod, in addition to charging it, all in one simple [...]

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Music, Work | 1 Comment »>

DansGuardian

It’s increasingly looking like I’m going to have to implement DansGuardian content filtering on the work network, and push all our outgoing internet traffic through Squid. It’s an extra layer I’d really rather not have, but there’s just too much unnecessary traffic going on that I have no other way to manage. Argh.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Happy Birthday to Me

Yesterday was my birthday. 36. Kt went on an afternoon date with me. We ate steak and went to see Finding Neverland. It was sad but enjoyable. Ate homemade cake that just melted in my mouth. Asher wrapped up his Little People school bus in some blankets and gave [...]

Monday, December 13th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »>

RE: Perl

Seth fixed up the Perl script for me. It’s nice and clean and easy to read now, also easier to configure sites, too. Thanks!

Monday, December 13th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Perl

Seth would be proud. I just resorted to writing a Perl script to replace the Python-based squid redirector that was giving me trouble. (I’ve expressed prejudices against Perl to him in the past…but when it come down to writing a 10 liner to manipulate strings, you really can’t beat it.)

Monday, December 13th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>

Port 25 filters vs. SPF

There is likely to be some confrontations in the works between the major ISPs and Sender Policy Framework advocates in the near future. Blocking port 25 (SMTP) to servers outside the control of the ISP is becoming quite common. It’s also common at certain semi-public networks like Hotels, which require you to change [...]

Friday, December 10th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Another day…

Another annoying problem to solve at work. Beginning of the week it was crazy power fluctuations in our electrical service. Yesterday, hijacked proxy. Today? Voice T1 flakiness. What’s next? Who knows.

Thursday, December 9th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »> « Previous Entries