photoblog – J's blog

Dec152008

Slow day…

filled out two job applications
took G to school
almost got the AT&T wireless card working in my laptop (Using Cingular via Sierra Wireless Aircard 875 [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums ), until I discovered that my laptop has no PCMCIA slot
got pam_usb working (using HOWTO: pam_usb login with USB memory stick [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums and Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Start Your PC | MakeUseOf.com)
Picked up G and Jack from school, talked with Nina about Cosmos (she thinks Sagan thought aliens had visited long ago, I disagree)
Fed Jack and Grace, and let them play Sly Cooper 3
Baked a loaf of bread (need more yeast)
Sent Jack home
Let G play webkinz
made dinner
had G do her homework (no math, no spelling, extra reading)
Fed G dinner
Had her brush her teeth
Read to her until she fell asleep
Signed up for twitter (Why? Baby’s First Twitter)
tied it into this blog
uploaded the photos from yesterday
Finished this blog post.

While we’re at it, Dogbert explains the financial crisis.

Dec152008

OK, the gallery is fully cleaned up!

It took a while, but every file is in the database, and the database is consistent!

Dec92008

What I’ve been up to lately

So, since the layoff, I’ve been

cleaning the house (caught up on laundry, re-organized the kitchen)
job hunting (still wake up and take G to school every day)
setting up IPMI remote console access (for both my colo box at IPMI 2.0 and my file server at IPMI 1.5)
re-organized the photo gallery (decades for older stuff, yearly for more recent)
fixed almost all gallery issues (certificates for SSL stuff, database cleanup)
watching the economy continue to tank

Oh, and watching lots more discovery channel with G (mostly storm chasers and dirty jobs), and the 3rd season of Dexter (better than the second season).

I have also re-confirmed that I truly detest daytime television, so it usually stays off.

Aug72008

That ping means your praying mantis is still alive

Jul32008

Made it to the lake in time for the sunset…

Jul12008

Time to empty the 2blog folder

For those who care, I have really, *really* short names for my bookmarks toolbar folders — for instance, my leftmost folder, which contains links that I visit daily, is labelled simply ‘1’. I use foxmarks to keep my bookmarks synchronized between all my browsers, and I use the “Add Bookmark Here2” plugin to just add pages to that 2blog folder when I come across a page I want to share later.

Then, once it gets overwhelmingly large, I just copy the links from that folder to a post.

As usual I start with things overheard: