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Found in my referrer logs:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=my+karma
If you have to look for it on the internet, you’re in deep trouble.

How am I ever gonna make it big on Blogshares if this blog keeps shriveling up to one measly entry on the front page?

Dammit, I need action, adventure, excitement. With lots of photo opportunities, if possible.

Maybe I should become a pirate. Blogging the Seven Seas, taking from the rich and converting it all to rum, or something like that…

This rant…needs more coffee!

I’ve just added the fix for RFC3156 conformance to the mail2blog script, that Reverend Jim proposed to make it work with Evolution and Exim.

Since I have some free time, I think I’ll look into adding image handling capabilities to the script, that sounds like a neat idea.

Came across Kingdomality today, and took the personality profile test, just for shits and giggles.
According to them, I am a Black Knight. I can live with that…

While cleaning up my workspace, I came across a gazillion pieces of paper, with all kinds of notes written on them. Those notes ranged from fairly obvious (phone numbers, CD titles) to the utterly arcane. And sorting them into any kind of structure seemed a rather daunting task, which I was naot ready to face on such a bright sunday.
So, I turned to technology, and decided to install a personal Wiki on my gateway server. The Wikis I have seen on the internet so far seemed pretty good, so I though, this kind of information organization should be perfect for a cluttered brain like mine. No more cryptic notes on my desktop. Instead, I will have cryptic nodes on the Wiki. But at least, my workspace will look more organized.

And who knows, if I get really crazy about it, I might even hack TrackBack into it.

“It’s not like I’m using. It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug chocolate deficiency.”

With apologies to William Gibson.

Mark, on April 10, 2003:

Now to go learn something about investing.

Same Mark, the next day:

100 shares buys you a week on the front page, above the fold somewhere.

Might be worth a try, though…

Today, I decided to reinstall our intranet file server. For several reasons:

• It’s still running RedHat 7.2
• I fiddled around with LDAP for UNIX and SMB auth. Didn’t quite work
• After a power outage yesterday, I cannot NFS-mount one directory on the server. All others are okay, just this one directory refuses to work. It did work previous to the outage.

So, I tell my cow-orker, and he asks “What are you gonna put on the box?”
Well, that’s an easy answer: “RedHat 7.3″
Him: “Why don’t you use 8 or even 9?”

To be honest, it’s a gut feeling. Starting with 8, RedHat has become too colorful and eyecandyish to be on a server, for my taste. I use 8 as my desktop machine, because I love the antialiased fonts in Mozilla, but when it comes to critical servers, I prefer to stay a little behind the tech curve. When Redhat 7 came out, I still put 6.2 on a lot of machines, because by that time, a lot of the kinks had been ironed out of 6.2, and, honestly, 7.0 was not the best release…

So my answer was “Because I don’t trust Redhat newer than 7.3 on critical servers”. And because I am a stubborn old fart!

This morning, my windshield was frozen over with a thick crust of ice.
That’s not something I want to experience in April. I mean, there’s always talk about global warming, and now it’s the beginning of spring, I’m freezing my ass off, and my car looks like it comes fresh out of the icebox.

I mean, spring. Soft breezes, short skirts, flowers blooming, short skirts, birds chirping. Did I mention short skirts? How is that gonna work, if it keeps snowing? Feh!

“Wow, Java sure is OOP all over. Everything’s an object!”

–An anonymous coworker, who has only used C++ so far, and is now starting to learn Java

My guess is, he has never really used OOP, just “C with some objecty stuff”. I wonder what will happen, when he gets to the part about writing GUI stuff in Java…