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Let's see.. I redid my website, located now at http://www.fix.no. Added configuration file parsing to my MySQL project. Still needed is a web based interface and some debugging on my behalf.

Weather has been getting nicer, although as I am writing this message I am still quite sweaty. After all my adventures with Sawfish, I have again returned to Window Maker. Nothing beats its consistent interface. Tommorow going to do some simple hacking on its source, to change the default icons. Postfix is good for your health.

Doing backups at work and playing a lot of Chuck Yeager's air combat. Should limit myself in that area. DSL should be here in few days - at least the loop.

Haven't written an entry yesterday.. Lazyness gets me. So let's see. Yesterday I've compiled a new kernel and made fstab records at work, setup Postfix at home.

Today.

Woke up at 7:19 and got up at around that time. Hung out with a friend of mine untill 12:30, then spent some time on FIX and played a bit of flight sim. After I finish this entry, I'll guess I'll work on my website and do some work with MySQL.

School has ended, did surprisingly well on most my finals, especially Chemistry,History and French. DSL is still not here and I have no expectations that the covad / pacbell people will be there any time soon. Got some new furniture, put it toghether with help of my dad. Now i have a nice cherry-finished computer table, book shelf, and laptop (later to be writing) table. Obtained a NetGear (now Bay Networks), 10/100 hub: now I can run VNC across the network.

Weather is un-tolerable. Ever since May 17'th, its been over 35 degrees (centigrade of course) daily. Air conditioner fails to reach the up stairs. Probably will obtain a certain cooler.

Wasted a night, downloaded and installed Helix Code. Works nice, please thank Hans Petter for fixing bold-overstrike in gnome terminal (this actually makes it usable now). Spend some time working again on my .emacs, and got an IRC friend of mine (artwiz), to do a logo for me (it's show on his site).

DSL is not here yet, wasting my 56k bandwidth at this modem. Assembly and Python are interesting to learn, but school finals may interfere. Chemistry Honors final this Friday (20 chapters.), planning to interupt my computer activity and study.

Introduced my friend to techno, began with Orbital to show the purer side and ended with Astral Projection to show him the trance side. Also showed him some Lords of Acid, as the naughtier side.

Deciding to abandon window maker now, and forever, switching to Saw[fish,mill].

Ok, I realize I haven't posted anything in a long time. First, please don't classify me as Journeyer, as I dont deserve this certification at this time. Second, let's go over the important events which have occured at this time:

* I've been hired by a startup UNIX oriented company, doing system administration on their Linux system (so far I am the only one dedicated to that position). I don't want to disclose the details at this point, will do so later - as soon as we expand.

* Obtained another system to do development. A single Pentium II 350 system, with a super micro sp6ba motherboard and 128MB sdram. Runs mozilla without any trouble, but no running Mozilla was not the reason for me obtaining this system. Plan to do some serious development on it, going to work a bit with Postgress over the summer.

* Did some experiments with assembly. You should too ;-) Visit http://www.linuxassembly.org for more information.

* On a personal note, I just moved into a brand new house. Setting up a very nice office there and have placed an order for Covad/Firstworld DSL. Once the broadband connection is available, all my web related waste of disk space will be available again.

And once again, I emphasize, please put me back as an apprentice, I have not contributed enough to be counted as a journeyer.

Vacation is on its way. Introduced aaronl to FIX. Setup a mirror of my page at people.fix.no/strlen. Did some configuration of NFS and got to learning Python.

With the help of some FIXers, I have created a new word: dot-communism. Un American dot-communists can also be reffered to as dot-commies.

Upgraded to Debian 2.2. Very nice. Now with glibc 2.1. Some things seem to work faster, although that may be just an illusion. Now with glibc 2.1 I have given a try to Mozilla M14 (Netscape 6 PR1 would segfault on me upon startup and they are not that much different I have heard) and it's very nice (although I confess I posted this entry from regular Netscape).

Yes, I decided to catch up with the broadband revolution by ordering installation of @Home cable (which is a temprorary solution before moving into a new house and getting DSL). Finished a round of standardized testing at school and vacation has arrived. Hacking time.

Recently purchased a 17 inch monitor. Now I am running 1152x864 @ 16bpp. Works well for me. Can have a Netscape and several terminal windows open. Looking forwards to switching from Netscape to Mozilla. Also played a bit with Abi Word, once it attains a capability to work with tables (or does the CVS version already do that?) I will switch to it full-time from Corel Word Perfect.

Shame on myself for not posting a diary entry in such a long time. In the time since I have posted a diary entry, I have worked a lot on my .Xdefaults (to get *ugh* Motif) applications to look decent, accelerated the teaching of myself of PHP through doing some examples and have began working on a little Perl script, to handle `stamping` of images (for use with webcam scripts and such). I'll get this and my .Xdefaults up later. Oh yes, I've also done some work on my webpage, making it simpler and more informative.

In the days leading up to today I have:

* Redone my homepage yet another time.
* Renamed my P233 from 'alex` to `nebula`
* Redone many things in my .Xdefaults
* Played around with PHP

and of course:
* Worked a bit on the secret project.

Currently I am looking forward to upgrade my P233 (need to add more ram and may be get a different case).

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