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[Sunday January 25, 2004 21:49:15 -0700]

Well, first post of the new year and I'm only 25 days into it... Ya ya, not really keeping up with things but hey, such is life.

god (the computer) is running well, and I've migrated everything in the house to Fedora Core 1, which seems to be going well so far. I've been working on getting an nptl patch to work on 2.4.24 so that I can continue with the -uv series for 2.4.24. At this rate, 2.4.25 will be released before -uv2 which would not be to my liking.

I'm a little miffed that those who saw fit decided that laying the nptl patch over the O(1) scheduler and the -ac patch for 2.4.22 was a "Good Thing"(tm) as this has caused a major problem in bringing nptl forward, by its self, to 2.4.24. At this point it is just not working, I have to go back through sched.[ch] and fix a bunch of things there first, then get it to at least compile again

In other news, I'm working on a type of change management and notification interface for NOC type environments. Basically, you can create a change document within the interface, it then gets approved and time scheduled for it. The time slot is then displayed on a public interface so people can actually view when things will be going off line etc. Also, unscheduled outages can be posted here and approved with public display and therefore also leaving a history of information. This could easily tie back to an inventory system and create a fairly complete help desk problem and inventory tracking system... Almost... Still a bunch of things left to straighten out. I'll be releasing it at some point in the not too distant future.

In Feb some friends are coming in and we're going skiing. Unfortunately some people couldn't make it, but all (ones not coming and ones coming) are good people. It should be a blast. We're going to spend about 3 or 4 days up at Sunshine by Banff, and one person even wants to go ice climbing, which I *might* have to pass on... Skiing is one thing, climbing is something completely different :).


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[Monday December 29, 2003 09:01:45 -0700]

Released 2.4.23-uv3 last night and sent patches for quota tools off to Honza. With one more release of the -uv patchset its getting to be a very very stable kernel version IMHO. I do hope that people can use what I'm putting together.

In other things, I've bought a new computer, first *new* computer I've ever owned! It's an AMD Athlon, GA-7N400 MB, with an nvidia 5200FX video card. 256MB RAM (will up it to 512 soon), cdrom and 40GB HDD. I know the nvidia binary only drivers are not the best thing to use, but in reality they are the best ones out there for 3D under Linux right now, for a sub $300 card at least. I'm also running 2.6.0 on it thanks to arjanv under RHEL 3 WS.

Other things, received a Fred Buchwitz copy (small one) which is just beautiful, socks, mason jar mugs, nice soft fleece blankets and a couple bottles of really cool beer. Being that I didn't ask for anything, all of these things are complete riches.

To everyone who reads this, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


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[Saturday November 15, 2003 00:00:17 -0700]

OK, new idea. I want to make a music database akin to IMDB with a dashboard twist.

Sooo, setup a web based music database, sure it's been done. Relate that music database to one another ala IMDB (cool, I like X so then Y should be good too), then integrate a search engine... Here's how the whole thing fits together.

You like the CD Brand New Day by Sting. So, you rate it a 5 of 5. So, another person likes Dream of the Blue Turtle right, so of course that shows up as a "Suggested Listening" entry, in other words you should like it too. But also in the list is Wonderful by Adam Ant (of all people). Now, that's all cool but, it also has cddb tied in so it can show you all of the tracks on Wonderful, and links to current Sting and Adam Ant concert tours, and postings about Sting and Adam Ant to music chat pages, and recent albums by both artists, and the artists web sites, and A&Ms web site, and EMIs web site, and of lyrics of all the songs on the albums, and... OK, you get the idea.

I thought of this on the way home tonight. I heard a song on the radio and couldn't place the singer or band. Of course, what do I do? Think, I'll have to search that in google and find out wtf it is. OK, cool. Too bad there wasn't a site to do this on, where the lyrics would be indexed, and the cddb info would be there, and the....

Next step? I'm just starting. This is a very new idea, so this means I might get to it in the next year, but it's a thought. Sound like a good one? Email me your thoughts


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[Tuesday October 21, 2003 07:25:53 -0600]

Turkey day came and went, I'm finished painting downstairs but still need to do the finishing (trim around the doors, baseboards, ceiling), and it's falling outside. Even though it's getting on in the season it's been a beautiful fall, really and indian summer.

We brought 2 of the cats over last weekend and although the older calico cat (Patches) is doing fine the younger one (Dusty) is still hiding under couches and stuff. Soon, I hope, she'll be out of hiding and cruising around the house.

OH, and vacation was good. I used the time to finish the basement and it actually looks pretty good!


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[Friday October 03, 2003 07:47:35 -0600]

Toys!
So, last weekend I decide I need to have a decent digital camera. I went out and bought one and therefore there is a sudden explosion in the
number of pictures I've been taking! It's a sweet little Sony DSC-72. Nice camera, fairly good effects, optical and digital zoom, and a 256M memory stick. It's cool.

In the basement, I managed to get a door hung last night, and need to get sanding soon. I hope to hang the other door in the hallway tomorrow, and sand too. It's starting to come to shape and actually looks really cool :)

Other then that, I've found out GFS is not nearly as stable when you actually try to *abuse* it really heavily. If you run it in production, and do (for example) a full backup of it, it will creater. Joyous. Hopefully this weekend I'm going to be replacing it with ext3 and NFS, not failover yet. Once I have a production failover setup working, or have AS 2.1/3.0 then we will have the redundancy. Right now, the fscking systems are falling over at least once a week from the damn backups... *sigh*.

Oh, and next week: I'M ON VACATION!!!!


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[Saturday September 27, 2003 00:30:23 -0600]

Tired, need to sleep.

The drywall in the basement is coming along nicely, I'll be taping sometime tomorrow (maybe today, ya, today) and sanding on Sunday. Maybe prime it on Tuesday or so? That would be nice. Be able to get my oldest son out of the family room!


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[Wednesday September 17, 2003 00:10:41 -0600]

Just before nap time!

Yesterday the inspectors came and everything is approved. Time to drywall! That is going to start tomorrow night, I've been playing with my new toy and haven't had the time.

The new toy is an Axim X5, so I went out and picked up a type 1 CF card and a USB to Multicard reader/writer. I've already booted Linux on the system (Opie) and now I'm working on the sync bits to WinCE. Nice unit...


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[Thursday September 11, 2003 07:09:45 -0600]

Well, we are moved now to the new house. Right now we're building a few walls in the basement to make a bed room for my oldest son, and a furnace/utility/equipment room. It should actually work out really well.

2.4.22 seems fairly stable for me, which is good and I'm running it on cafe and my lappy. I've created an update patch as well for 2.4.22 which includes fixes for a couple of oops conditions, a possible race, a compile fix, and the initrd patch.


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[Monday September 01, 2003 11:17:54 -0600]

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 11:17am  up 20:11,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2               1011928    218700    741824  23% /
/dev/md1                101018     35548     60254  38% /boot
/dev/md3               2015952    260820   1652724  14% /var
/dev/md7              33261936   9739712  21832596  31% /home
/dev/md6              12096632   2938360   8543792  26% /usr
/dev/md8               2015952     40924   1872620   3% /var/spool
/dev/md9               2015952     38928   1874616   3% /tmp
/dev/md10              5573840    460704   4830000   9% /opt
/dev/hdc1              8063392   6950912    702884  91% /home/ftp
/dev/hdc2              8063424   5358852   2294972  71% /usr/src
none                     96092         0     96092   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc3             23388996  16176704   6024164  73% /home/stuff

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Schweet

Moving sucks


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[Sunday August 31, 2003 10:01:00 -0600]

Moving today and tomorrow and to top off everything I had the main drive in cafe start to flake out which meant I had to get it replaced. Now, there's 2 60G Hitachi Deskstar drives for the bulk of the partitions in raid1!

Spending way way way too much money lately. Bought an Easy Flo built in vacume for the house, lots of new furniture, drives for cafe (not expected), and on and on it goes...

Currently, the house is a wreck, cafe is a wreck, and my nerves are a wreck. I'm glad I stopped smoking, but sometimes I wonder if I should start again...


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[Monday August 25, 2003 10:46:00 -0600]

My IP changed. It's funny how when you want your ISP (esp. a large one that also provides telco services) to make a change right away they say, "Sorry, that will take two weeks to implement", yes when you ask for a change to be made in say, a week, they accidentally implement the same freaking day!.

You see, it all started at the beginning of the month, right after OLS. I get home and find that I have managed to pull all the right strings and get together the money I need for the down payment on a house. So, I like the looks of this one house and phone the realtor. Well, the house isn't quite right and is a bit too expensive, but the realtor wants my buiness so he's willing to go all out to find a house, cool.

He also has contacts at a bank, and they will contact me about a mortgage etc. etc. I'm thinking bankers hours, might be a week before they have the chance to call me to turn me down. Anyway, 9pm that night I get a call from the mortgage person, and by 9:30 I'm approved for a mortgage. ACK!

I have since found a house, and more or less purchased it (just waiting on the last of the paper work to go through now, formalities I'm told). So I call to put in the move orders for my telephone and DSL, etc. on Friday morning, by Friday at noon my DSL is down. Gone... Dead... Damn...

They put the move order through a week and a bit early, and to top it off deleted my account somewhere along the way and re-assigned my IPs. So now I'm scrambling around making changes here and there to get the IPs moved...

*sigh*, when you want them to do it quick they can't. When you don't, they find the initiative to do it...


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[Monday August 18, 2003 18:45:05 -0600]

Note to self: Remind steph to print out the Mad Dog drinking game for next OLS


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[Tuesday August 05, 2003 23:15:39 -0600]

Note to self: When installing the new module-init-tools do not rename *all* of the files from modutils to .old. Some things, such as kernel builds, still need genksyms and other bits.

But, on the brighter side I finally have 2.4.22-pre10 booting on the lappy. Just making the RPM right now. Worked on this and some other problems for a good part of the day due to a stomach ailment. Little bugs are a pain in the arse.


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[Sunday August 03, 2003 23:40:54 -0600]

I survived OLS, I survived the visit with folks after wards, and now I'm home again. Personally, OLS was a great benefit. Andrew, Steph, and all the volunteers, THANKS!

Saturday I spent replacing the shifters and derailleurs on my bike, which in the end went really well. I still have to do some adjustments on the back derailleur but otherwise it's working very well. Note to self, *do not let the kids use my bike again*. I'm going to start riding to work, and hopefully I can loose some of the extra 30# I'm dragging around with me.

Today we drove out to Canmore, had dinner at the Grizzly Paw Pub and brought home misc. very tasty beers. Dinner there was really good, if you ever have the chance drop by them and have a pint and a burger.

Now, must sleep.


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[Saturday July 26, 2003 08:16:11 -0600]

Well, so much for keeping this up to date, I really haven't had time.

OLS has been an experience and a lot of fun. I've put up pictures on http://www.hardrock.org/ols-pics/ for those who what to check it out. Look for the pics of mike, they are really good!

Wireless has been getting more and more abundant and stable as well. There are 4 APs at the symposium and one in the hotel that someone else brought with, managed to get a HS port, and is doing dhcp and NATting for everyone in the building that can reach his AP.


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[Wednesday July 23, 2003 06:17:06 -0600]

OLS, day one!

Last night we managed a connection from the room via someone on the 16th floor, and now I'm in the lobby on wireless. I'll update later from the floor.


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I've come to the determiniation that I dislike flying. Nothing personal, but being crammed in an uncomfortable vehical with a lot of people you don't know, for a long duration of time is not my idea of a good time. Not to mention the fact that you can't leave the vehical at all for the duration of the trip.

Well, anyway I'm on my way now to OLS, someplace over Manitoba, and I've been on the plane for about 2 1/2 hours now. Should be getting to Ottawa in about 1 1/2 hours or so, at least the papers say we should be there by 2:17 EDT (or 12:17 MDT).

Some of the lakes below are incredible, and the farms, and the clouds. If it were up to me, I'd be on the plane by myself, or with someone I could share it with. Looking down you can even see where there are impact craters and other geographical-shaping events which have occured and structured the surface of the earth over the past, what, hundred million years or so?

Putting all of that into perspective is mind boggling.

OLS should be a good time. Some of the people had already arrive, Bryce has an interesting story to tell about immigration, and others should be there today and tomorrow. Hehe, fortunately they allowed my chair-bungied-to-the-tent-duffle as one peice of luggage :). I don't know what I would have done if they didn't. My carry-on was exactly 22 lbs. or what ever the max wait is for carry-ons. All in all so far so good.

Next, I need to find the shuttle to the hotel, and call home to say I made it. I'm a real home body I must say, damn. I miss home.

Neat, there's frost forming on the outside of my window, little crystalline matrices of white, on a back ground of green forest, blue water, and white clouds. If it weren't for the people...


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[Saturday May 31, 2003 22:20:45 -0600]

Music is a good thing. It's cathartic, it's releasing.

I grew up in a musical family. One of my earliest memories was my dad playing the stand up base while my brother Bill played guitar. I'm not sure what music meant to my dad, and I never had the chance to ask him. When someone is gone, there's no chance to ever ask them the things that come up. You know; what would he/she have done? My dad was a good person, he loved life, and a good joke. He farmed almost all his life, was a rigger in the air force, was a musician, was a friend to many people, was strict at times and bent the rules when needed. Most of all, he was a good dad, sometimes I wish that he was still here to tell me what I should do, and hope that I can be as good as he was at being a father. Being a father has nothing to do with genetics. You can go out and make any woman pregnant, doesn't mean shit. My oldest son taught me that. Dad, it had nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with love and caring. I miss him, and wish I could hear him play the accordion one more time. Maybe one night I'll dream of him playing music, whistling, smiling, laughing, and being the person he was.

Anyway, back to music. Music is a medium understood by the entire population of this little blue ball which encompasses our existence. Music rocks our soul, changes our mood, and can put us in almost any mood we desire.

There is no single thing that I know of that will touch me like a good song. If I could, I would caress it as it caresses me. I would touch it as it touches me heart and my mind. There are a lot of songs that do this, and not always in a deep sentimental way. "Barrett's Privateers" is one like that, it's just a damn good song.

Almost anything by Alanis Morrisette kicks ass. I have a fairly eclectic taste in music, really. Everything from Hendal to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Opus to AC/DC. I do actually believe that if more people listened to music on a daily basis, the world would be a much better place.

In the words of Getty Lee (nee Rush):

"Begin the day with a friendly voice,
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood."

I bought 2 CDs today, used of course. Creed: Human Clay, and Bruce Cockburn: Big Circumstance.

I can't get enough of the Creed CD; the beat of heavy metal just blows my mind. I love it. When I was in high school one of my favourite bands was Iron Maiden, balladeers with a thick bass and nasty guitar bite. There's something in the style that will always touch some place in my physique, a deep dark place that loves a banging tom tom, and a bass lick to end all bass licks. I wanted to be there then, back in high school. hehe, ya, OK.

Have a Newcastle Brown and listen to a tune at least once a week. It'll make for a better life.


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[Monday May 12, 2003 21:30:13 -0600]

Latest mischief I'm into? I've registered to take the RHCE exam. I had the thought that I've been doing this long enough I should become certified... Well, at least I'm certifiable I suppose. So, this also means I had to buy a text to read. I'm going through the RHCE Study Guide (Osborne press). So far it's good, mind you I've only just started. I'll post more about it after I've read a bit more.

OH, and it's finally spring again!


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[Friday May 02, 2003 22:51:05 -0600]

OK, it's been over 2 weeks, and a fast 2 weeks it's been...

Tomorrow, being Saturday (and one of the only days I allow myself to relax), I plan on spending money. I need more CDs, I need William Gibsons new book I think (to read after my current book on taoism), I think I should also do other things like sleep and read, after I buy stuff and while I'm listening to music.


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[Friday April 11, 2003 07:08:21 -0600]

Spring is springing, spam is surging, and the week is almost done!

The weather is getting sooo nice out, it's hard at times to go to work. It's going to be 17C today (they say on the weather) and almost all of the snow is once again gone. Green grass even on the south side of buildings and hill sides too (hehe, see Bryce, it happens here too).

Spam has got to be one of the most annoying problems. Once you think things are going well the spammers change what they do and more gets through. I upgraded spamassassin here to fix this. It works incredibly well and now supports bayesian filtering, so you can teach it what spam is and what ham is.


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[Monday March 31, 2003 07:02:52 -0700]

Monday morning sneaks up on you to WHACK you with it's overly large club. Last week I was on vacation, and now it's gone. My vacation time went way to quickly, likely due to the fact that I was so busy for that time.

It's been brought up on the lkml that there is a need for update patches for the latest current stable kernel to allow administrators a single point for important updates like the ext3 and ptrace patches. I put in that I would be willing to host these as I am already doing this for work and it wouldn't be very much extra work to pull out just the critical patches. So, to that end I put up a /current-updates kernel page which just has these critical updates. All it is are the 3 patches that I use at work for preventing bad things from happening rolled into one and individually. They may be put on kernel.org or not, and if not it doesn't really matter either, they will be available from my website.

Iraq, peace, war... So which is worse, the US, Australia, and Britten invading Iraq, or Saddam being allowed to keep killing Kurds and Arabs alike because he feels like it? It's a mess over there, and although I'm not a proponent of war I do have to say that they only way to bring some kind of peace and stability to the area will be to force him out. Not a nice thought, but if you consider 6 months of war vs. years of dictatorship for the people of Iraq, I think the war will be a better alternative, although only marginally...

After a couple weeks of nice weather it's supposed to snow again. Great. You know, several months of cold and snow give one an adversion of the highest order to anything winter-like. Well, maybe this is the last blast. At least we can hope.


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[Tuesday March 18, 2003 23:40:17 -0700]

It's Tuesday, everyone in the family is sick with the flu, and I'm working late again (waiting for a tar to finish right now...).

I found out last week that I'm confirmed for going to OLS (YAA!). Should be fun and enlightening, and I'm going to try and scam a decent laptop and camera for the trip too. Next week I'm off to help clean up the farm my mom sold. It will be nice, in some respects, to get away for the week.

A new version of Phprojekt should be out soon, I cleaned up the LDAP auth portion of it (you know, it's just so handy running ldap at home :) so it works far better then it did before, I think at least. I also backported the Alan Cox ptrace security patch to 2.4.20, as I am not about to start running 2.4.21-pre5-ac1 (or whatever)...

In heavier news, tomorrow is the day. Either Sadam moves, or the troops move. I hope to hell they know what they are doing, because otherwise I don't know that we will all be around the day after... Bush is hell bent on getting the oil in Iraq, and it seems they haven't put in the thought of what will happen to the stability of the entire region. I hope that in a few months we're all out of it...


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[Wednesday March 12, 2003 22:39:10 -0700]

Whoa, what is happening to the month?

Not much right now though.

I did buy some new toys. A 48x24x48 burner and another 40G of HDD. Kinda cool. I can burn a CD now in less time then it took to copy it before... *sigh* Progress eh?


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[Wednesday February 26, 2003 07:27:59 -0700]

Long time, no updates

New things at work. We moved offices, and have cubicals now. It's actually not that bad, I like being able to talk to the others when you need to although I would have prefered it without the walls... On the other hand, it's fun to bounce the nerf weapons off the ceiling and hit people that way!!

I also worked with Jeff Garzik to trouble shoot and test the tg3 driver in 2.4.20 which has caused him and David Miller to release the 1.4c driver. Thanks to David and Jeff for doing what you do, as well as ALL of the other people that have ever worked on the Linux kernel or on GNU/BSDish software. PEOPLE, you're great!


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[Thursday January 02, 2003 07:40:09 -0700]

Worked way too much the last 3 days, so much in fact that I think I've added another almost 4 days vacation.


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[Monday December 30, 2002 11:39:51 -0700]

New Years Resolutions

  • To get into shape again. Since I stopped smoking in May I've gained about 20 lbs. Not good, 6 ft. tall and about 225 lbs. ACK!
  • Go camping and biking more. Last year it was 1 and 0.
  • To get involved in more open source projects. I want to make a difference, and put some back into what I've been doing. I would actually like to work on something in kernel space.
  • Open source a few things I've written. I have stdsh, LDAP management interface, and the noax shell to name a few things I could do.
  • Try and make it to OLS this year.

Have a few family things as well, my brother and sister-in-law have been married 25 years (congrats) and my mother has sold the farm, which has been in my family for about 100 years (a bit more actually). She has now bought a farm by Halkirk, east and many miles north of Calgary.


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[Wednesday December 25, 2002 21:51:38 -0700]

The last minute shopper does it again. Yesterday I found a tree at a corner lot for $35 (well, $34.70 actually, it was all I had and managed to haggle until the guy said yes :). So picked that up, picked up one last thing for the kids and stuff for stockings. One of these years I won't be so lucky.

It was Christmas today, YAAA!. I got tickets to Nemesis, a copy of The Silmarillion, socks, a wood box one of the kids made, and a $50.00 gift certificate for Indigos. All in all, good.

Tomorrow it'll be movies I think, a good walk, go to Indigo (I want a copy of K&R ANSI C, I need one!), and otherwise relax. I'm on call the 26th to 28th but oh well.


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[Saturday December 14, 2002 10:42:42 -0700]

Great fun! Thursday my main machine here died, yesterday, it died again. The 6 year old Quantum drive seems to be failing a bit. So, last night I went out and bought a new 30G Maxtor drive (cool, only 105 bucks!) and warped the machine into the new millennium. Those 9 gig drives were cool, but they are a tad out of date...

The week was completely insane at times. Did the secret santa thing at work and I received 4 ancient ales of scotland (someone knows what I like!). I drank those last night too!

Family things are OK, although as always... There are things in my life that I would change, some of them historic, some of them far too difficult. Such is life.

Today is christmas shopping day. We're going to do some shopping, get a tree and put it up, and watch movies tonight. What do I want for christmas? Not much really. Some black shirts would be cool. A 100M switch (5 or more port) would be good too. Red Dwarf DVD set (first and second seasons). umm, Alanis Morisette, Rush, AC/DC, or Bruce Cockburn CDs would be cool.

Things to do in the next year

Lose some weight, and get in shape. Stop being a bastard most of the time. Have fun. Get away with the Kids. Love.

My Xmas Wishes for the world

Other things to hope for? Bush gets his head out of his ass on many things (war and Kyoto to name 2). The bastards who shall remain nameless release anthrax or some chemical weapon upon themselves and they all die. People would stop being so lazy.

Wow, that's it for me today.


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[Tuesday December 03, 2002 07:25:56 -0700]

Not a lot to say right now, but a lot going on.

Went to my mothers farm by Red Deer on Saturday where the kids and I picked up some of the approximately 112 years of accumulation there. It's a great piece of the world, and I will miss being able to visit it freely... But times change and things change. Came home that night to a wonderful curry and rice dinner and then crashed. It was a long day.

Sunday was slow and good. The morning was spent shopping and the afternoon half asleep watching the 4th disc in the LOTR DVD set.


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[Friday November 29, 2002 07:26:22 -0700]

The cats were insane last night and it climaxed in being woke at 4am by the cats chasing each other from under the bed! *sigh* makes you chuckle :) Weekend is almost upon us! The souvlaki was excellent the other night, I love greek food. We made souvlaki, rice, titziki and greek salad for dinner.. I think I gained a couple of pounds...


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Sunday, November 24, 2002.

This past week I started supporting the LDAP integration for phprojekt (www.phprojekt.com) which isn't all that difficult to manage, so I might take on a couple other projects.

Well, Friday night I went out and bought a DVD player. Being that in the past year I've bought a stereo (first one since I was 14), replaced the VCR, and now purchased the DVD player I'm thinking that I have to buy a TV next... (our 20 inch is OK, but it is getting a bit dated). Also bought LOTR, 4 disc set and Attack of the Clones. I find the extra content actually quite good.

Red Dwarf season 1 still isn't out on DVD and the BBC is having a contest to give away copies. I managed to get 10 out of 10 right on the quiz only to realize afterwards that they only take applications from the UK. Sucks it does.

Now, today, I've decided to put up a weblog. Why? No real reason, just to jot down a few things, and be a sheep (I've seen a few others around). So this one I've done up on my own, does a dirlist of a given directory and then rattles the contents of those files off to the unexpecting masses. Just give it a directory of files dated using increasing numbers and that's about it. Suppose it could be used for other things, but whatever. The functional code is dirlist.txt


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First thing last.

bash$ whoami
This is the weblog of me, James Bourne. Otherwise known as Jim, James, etc, mister, dad, or "hey you". I'll answer to any of those and alot of other names I won't get into here.

I'm a UNIX/Linux System administrator and occasional programmer and have contributed to a few projects.

Current projects are survival (as always), My new house, Phprojekt ldap auth, current kernel update patches, and the non-projects that take up my time would be my wife Jaime and kids. These tend, most days, to work out for the better but either way at some point I'll post something about at least one of them again soon.

Disclaimer: This is mine, and these are my opinions. If you don't like something I say here, you have the right to go away and not read this again. If you don't like the language I use or if you think I'm not politically correct, you have the right to go away. This is MY WEBSITE and these are MY COMMENTS. I think that sums it up OK.

bash2$ cat .pgpkey

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bash$ exit
Goodbye!

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