muah haha

I'm writing this from sjc3, one of above.net's colos in San Jose. I now once again have my own colo'ed server. Web is still elsewhere right now, but I just moved the databases for the site over, and things are much faster (1 hop between web and db, instead of many). I am a happy man. When I get back to LA my web presence can finally get back into swing.

on breaking computers

So today I decide I really need to take the IDE drive out of my computer. I have three drives, I'm not really doing much with the IDE drive, no problem. Except that that's my boot drive, and I've never tried booting SCSI on this machine. Of course, I push on. Fun ensues. Click for more. — Continue Reading...

Shea Seger - Blind Situation

I heard of Shea Seger because she's been touring with John Mayer. I'm mixed on a lot of her songs, but I really like Blind Situation. It's really down-tempo with some rap (by a rapper I haven't heard of -- Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes). Always and Twisted are also cool.

qmail hacking

So tonight I had to figure out a very quick way to get email into a host inside the USC network. This wouldn't seem to be a problem, except that USC blocks port 25 traffic at some router level. Hackery was definitely called for, as ISD was probably going to be far slower than was acceptable for our purpose. Click for details... — Continue Reading...

you know it's a weird day...

You know it's a weird day when you totally make up code and it works the first way you try. Especially when this code involves storing and retrieving nested arrays from Storable... The diff from my eThreads changes on the night is 2394 lines at the moment. Needless to say, I've tackled a huge chunk of code.