I‘m afraid you can’t spy on me for a while. I’m having more technical difficulties with the 3Com HomeConnect USB webcam under Linux, so I’m taking the cam offline until the HomeconnectUSB project on Sourceforge catches up to what I need it to be.

Sorry, no more peering at my cluttered office all day, folks.

In a whirlwind frenzy (ooo, Diablo II reference!) of computer building, I assembled Amy and Michael’s new superbox the night before last and started installing Windows last night.

Only to find that the Epox motherboard we bought has a CMOS problem that makes it prone to not starting up after the machine has been run for an hour. Oh, great.

So today, I suspect, they’re going to take the motherboard back to Fry’s and see about getting another one. Once that’s accomplished I’ll see about building them a real live working computer. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Thanks to code from this page, every time I add or update an entry to my site Weblogs.com is notified automagically.

It’s just another small way to bring in more visitors to the site. And you know me; I’ll do anything I can to show off how damned clever I am. Or hadn’t you noticed that yet?

Mind you, I couldn’t show off my cleverness if it weren’t for the efforts of the truly bright folks who create the software I manipulate. Never let it be said that I’m ungrateful. I know exactly where I stand in the Great Scheme Of Things.

The machine named “eng3” that sits in my office is a test-bed for a fully from-scratch Linux install. It’s currently based on Linux From Scratch version 3.1, and today I succeeded in building enough Gnome components to be able to install the Evolution email/groupware client.

This is a big win, but the bigger win will be in making my new Palm Pilot sync with Eng3. I’m going to prove or disprove my theory that the current Zero hardware configuration is utter garbage, and is the reason that pressing the HotSync button makes Zero crash.

Hell, I might even turn Eng3 into the new Zero if all goes well.

Maybe it came a few days late to actually be a true birthday present. So what? It’s still the second-coolest present I got this year!

A mystery gift-giver who asked to be kept anonymous left me a wonderful present over the weekend: A Palm m105! Woo hoo! I’ve been wanting a real live Palm Pilot for years now, mostly because of the growing hatred I feel for the WindowsCE-based HP 620LX I’ve been lugging around for the last few years.

So far I’ve managed to hook it up to Zero, my main Linux workstation, and sync it to Evolution’s task list, calendar and address book.

I’m so happy, I’m so happy… new geek toys are cool!