Back from Wisconsin. The airshow was fun, as always. Need to build an airplane. Perhaps I could turn it into some weird opensource project. Need to think on this a spell.

My news servers are acting funny again. I got called by the office on my cell phone about it. Tried to fix it, while driveing the jeep 80MPH up the interstate, dodging semis the whole time. I rule. Disk filling up, inbound feeds stop, expires run, we have no spool. I'm tweaking expire times now to try to combat it... we'll see, I suspect.

The news must flow.

Today I should be neck deep in some dhcp code, but I'm not. I'm struggling with a little programmer block I think. I should be working on the authentication mechanism to associate usernames with MAC addresses and stuff.... but I don't wanna. I've been wrestling with the little problems in this for so long that I have this weird latent dread. I start to work on it, and I find something else to do instead. It's not helped by the fact that I have so much other legit work to do.

Hammered out some more idea about keeping a history of MAC addresses and the leases they have had with Josh on thursday and friday. This may end up being a releasable product if I ever get to work on it.

Josh tells me he managed to hand build and send a DHCP request packet, so things are looking good for the new diagnostic tools.

Gotta go score the keys to the new apartment. Yea.