My wife Kathy wrote a LiveJournal post about our experience at The Mayan restaurant last night. You really should go read her post before continuing with mine. I had started to write my own post about it, but hadn’t gotten very far before sleep claimed me. Rather than come up with my own original work,…

My office has been using Exchange 2000 running on Windows 2000 Server. It was installed sometime in 2002, long before I got there. Since then, Microsoft has come out with 2003 versions of both of these products. Upper management gave us the go-ahead a few weeks ago to pay the Microsoft tax to get it…

Today I learned about the death of a recently acquired friend. Thanks go out to Julie for tracking down information about what happened. I met Ritsuo in the daily AIM chat room that I join every day. He was invited to join by Julie sometime in January. Julie’s LiveJournal contains the entry linked above. He…

from the “get the Internet to do the groundwork” department: I am interested in some X10 hardware, or in some hardware that accomplishes similar tasks. I would like to be able to put replacement light switches, power outlets, and such in my house and control them with my Linux server. I’ve done a little bit…

I’m flying to Oklahoma today. I’ll be attending a meeting this afternoon in Oklahoma City with an existing customer. After the meeting, we’ll drive to Tulsa for a meeting tomorrow with a potential customer. The second meeting is the reason I’m there – to get a look at their network traffic so we can give…

I really need to install a weblog parser. Something that will let me know what kind of bandwidth my webserver is using, and where the traffic is coming from. There are a lot of choices … analog, awstats, and so on.  I’m using apache 1.3 on Debian Linux. Does anyone have any experience with these…

As soon as Kathy uttered those words, I lost it. She was a little bit annoyed at me for laughing so hard and so long, but it tickled my giggler. Tonight she set up her sewing machine and serger so she can work on a new project. After that came the process of opening them…

Since so many people have added me to their LJ friends list, I need to remind everyone to open the blog URL before adding a comment. If the comment is posted on LJ, I will probably never see it. In case you’re wondering, I’m hoping to see a comment or two on my next post.

I just can’t seem to get it out of my system. Here’s another moon pic: I did get some other pictures today … but again they are of things I already have in my gallery.

We’ve had fairly clear skies the last few nights with a waxing moon. I finally managed to get out and get pictures. Below is a picture taken tonight and one that I took last year. I think both are good pictures, for different reasons.

As described in other posts, I spend my workdays logged into an chat room conducted on AOL’s instant messenger application. Marv, who is the link for almost everyone in the chat, expressed a desire to have an online spreadsheet for keeping track of some information about chat members. One of the best ways for a…

In October of 2004 I undertook a semi-major project – turning part of our basement into a Network Operations Center. One section of the basement is a small room, about 6 feet by 15 feet, not counting the area under the stairs, which is only usable for storage of oddly-shaped things. The conduit that we…

Yesterday I attended a funeral. Marv’s father passed away earlier in the week. In February of last year, Marv moved to North Carolina to get a job at Cisco. Because of this, he wasn’t here when it happened, but was able to get on a flight back to SLC very quickly. I know Marv fairly…

Here are some pictures of me in the suit I wore to the funeral yesterday. My wife tells me that I clean up pretty well. Unfortunately, I ran out of time as I was getting ready, and was not able to shave properly.

I’ve updated to WordPress 2.0, and managed to get my theme updated so my fancy header graphic is back. I’ve also updated my captcha plugin, which generates those funky codes you have to enter to post a comment.

I saw a news article today, the first line of which says this: A space tourism group developing a suborbital rocket ship is now taking aim at orbital trips with a new spacecraft that doubles as a hypersonic glider. The article itself is pretty cool in its own right, but I have a followup question…

On Monday I helped one of my friends fix a cgi execution problem with an Apache server. This sort of thing happens a lot, and afterwards I was greeted with a common side effect – a promise of a free meal, this time for me AND my wife. I’ve been promised a great many lunches…

Most of the rooms in the house have Benjamin artwork on at least one wall, in everything from pencil to permanent marker. We have learned that the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser will remove most of it, but it takes a layer of paint with it. There are also several places where the walls get touched…

Last month, my good friend Scott, who got me my current job, left the company for greener pastures. October 19th was his last day. Scott built the entire Cisco IP infrastructure here at the company, and aside from the firewall connecting everything, understands it better than anyone else on the planet. The last year has…