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Got my garden seedlings upstairs and on the porch. Thinned them, and experimentally tried to re-pot some of the thinned ones that came out in one piece. We’ll see if any of them live. I’m never using the “peat pellets” again. Ordinary sprouting pots for me, thanks. Re-potted all the plants that I care about, . . . → Read More: Productive! So, I got a response from the owner of “dwan.net”: . . . → Read More: dwan.net First off, watch this piece of genius. Then read about these guys. There’s one picture with humans in it to give an idea of scale. Today was better than yesterday, but not much. I again spent the morning with my laptop connected to a projector, with three system admins watching on the projector as . . . → Read More: Home again, and more taxes The low point today was when, after wresting with the damn system all day, the final node in the cluster ate my install CD. The CD is gone. I mean, we can’t find it. We were about 11 hours into the day, and I just gave in to the giggles. We’ve had dead network ports, . . . → Read More: Cluster There’s free wireless in my hotel, but only in the bar. The things I endure for my art. Today was less fun than other days I’ve had. Started off packing for the trip. This involved folding laundry. We all know how I feel about laundry. I’m currently in the airport, waiting for Air Canada to take me away. In between, . . . → Read More: Squeeeeeeeee… Wasted a whole day today trying to install SLES (That’s Suse Linux, Enterprise Server) on an IBM Blade Center. Bah. The install kept stopping at various points. First I went to safe mode, them I set all the filesystems to ext3 (instead of ReiserFS), then finally I tried a text only, minimal install. Still crapped . . . → Read More: Stupid hardware I own “dwan.org.” I’ve decided that I want “dwan.com” and “dwan.net” as well. I’m not going to do anything unique with them, they’ll all just forward to dwan.org. They are currently registered to some dorks who haven’t done anything with them at all. I dropped a note to the technical contacts listed in the whois . . . → Read More: Online thuggery |
