Austin

Finally back from Austin, TX. Went down to see IBM and some of their latest technologies. Very cool stuff. Their commitment to Open Source is not a marketing scheme either. That is a Good Thing (tm).

Did lots of Austin stuff, like dinner at chuy's, dinner at waterloo ice house, frequent trips to Amy's Ice Cream, and a Round Rock Express game. That rocked.

Forgot how much I like Austin, though the heat is dreadful. The great beer there helps though.

Music

Positively loaded up on CD's at Antone's and Waterloo. I am now diggin new stuff from Rollins Band, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Joe Ely and The Texas Plainsmen.

Statistics

I always knew stat would come back to haunt me.... I am testing some stuff and need to make sure I gather the right kind/amount of perf stats. Uggh. Had to buy a book ("The Pocket Statistician") to help me out.

Abby

Got 8 rolls of film developed. Should be posted on the website soon.

Tux.Org

Rolled out the new website for Tux.Org. Getting loads of feedback, mostly good. Yeah. Glad that project is mostly done. Still need to add a search engine and sitemap to the site.

Coding?

Read the Perl/Tk book from O'Reilly, and part of Havoc's Gtk development book last week during the trip. Started some perl/tk demos yesterday. Fun and easy.

not coding, but fun anyway.... I installed BeOS. It rocks, but won't replace Linux in my heart. Very slick. And the software devel for it seems to be coming along nicely. Damn, we have such a great community.

Benson

Ah jeez. Who let that freakin' benson in here. :) Hey brother, welcome to the Machine. Missing you here in NoVa.

What a day. It all started by me falling asleep on the couch last night and waking up there, sweaty and unkempt, at 830am today. Uggh. I hate that feeling from unintentional crashing. Must have been tired. Long hours at work this week, and the heat is sapping my strength.

Went out and got Laura a couple of Mother's Day gifts, since she is a real Mommy now.

Had lunch at Copeland's with Laura and Abby and shopped for some sci-fi at a local used book store. Got some stuff on the recommendation of bradley, who lives to drive the jihad bus, yet I like him anyway. David Drake and Keith Laumer. We'll see if I like their stuff.

Rained this evening and I have no energy to hack at anything. Cruising the web now with the drool of disinterest on my chin...

I saw Henry Rollins on Sessions at W 54th and realized I really wanted to listen to House of Hair, but my headphones with the really long cord are at work. It's always more fun with the headphones.

If this gets posted, it will be a miracle. Our building has a radio connection to the rest of the network. It is supposed to be an OC-3 equivalent, but, being in the microwave range, it is impacted by rain. And it is storming like a bastard out there now.

Continuing tape drive evaluations and learning about scsi parity errors. Feh.

Tried to get Laura's win98 box on the network at home. 14 reboots and it is still locking up. It doesn't like the network card. So, I got her to use my laptop (Linux, of course) and she is happy. Slowly working the opensource/freesoftware mojo on her.

Finalized my Austin travel plans. It has been a couple of years since Iwas down there. Can't wait to go! I spent most of my college years there, dating the 'Heather'.

Read a good article on linux.com about projects being started but dropped soonafter. I am guilty of this. Most of my personal projects are in a shambles. The cobbler's children go barefoot....

It's about time. I know, I know. Finally back to the diary entry. The past few days have been hectic, but good things may come from them.

On Monday, I submitted a summary paper for presentation at the Atlanta Linux Showcase in October. Now. the question is: will they accept it and let me present, or will they toss the contents of the rubbish bin on me and give me kick in the arse out the door?

We'll see...

Been monkeying around with a bunch of tape drives. We are evaluating them, whatever that means.... I have the normal single cartridge and changer units, but we also got in a couple of those little robot libraries. Very cool. One of them got bashed in shipping (f***ing UPS, again) and the case in dented. Hopefully the damage is only skin-deep.

Spring is springing nicely on the mountain. The hawk is back and patrolling the skies above our house. Best not leave Abigail outside. that would be bad. :)

What else can I tell you? Presenting a short topic on fetchmail at this weekend' s NOVALUG meeting.

Dug out some old CD's and have been spinning them in the car. Thinking of happy times back in the early 90's, when I was half-assing my studies and hanging out too much. And then there was the beer, but we won't get into that here. Ummmm.... beeeerrrrr...

To work! I go now, Kicking Bird!

kbs

Working on the knowledgebase tonight. Moving the html drop-down boxes from hardcoded html to mysql lookups. That way, I can write a little tool to maintain them and not be scrounging around in the program to fix hardcoded entries when we need to add/delete things.

Feeling like hacking tonight. It may be a late one. I am working from home on Friday, so getting up is not a requirement. :)

What are you thinking?

Thinking about submitting a paper for ALS in October. I have never submitted or presented a paper at a conference, so that might be a frightening event. Summary deadline is Monday. Better hurry....