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Month: May 2002

  • Party at the Kerezman abode

    In a move right out of the Twilight Zone, we’re going to be hosting the cast party tonight for that dessert theater thing that Wendi and the kids are in. Yep, I actually had to clean the computer room to a presentable level.

    Hopefully this will be a bright spot in an otherwise dreary weekend, as I expect to spend all day Sunday and Monday here at the office doing the server storage migration. Ick.

  • Friday Five from Dreamland

    Am I awake or am I dreaming that I am filling out this week’s Friday Five?

    • What’s the last vivid dream that you remember having? – I… can’t seem to remember now. I know I had a couple within the last three weeks, but as is typical for my feeble brain I can’t recall anything that was in either of them. Maybe I’ll come back and edit this one.
    • Do you have any recurring dreams? – Not as such. There are elements that pop up in different dreams, a particular location or bit of dialog perhaps. I think I’ve had one particular portion of a dream more than once over the years but I’m not absolutely certain that it wasn’t just a case of deja-vu-while-dreaming.
    • What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had? – Every couple of months, apparently, my brain decides that I need a good scary “let’s wander through the spider mansion” dream. Big spiders, cobwebs, the whole nine yards. Sometimes I have the ability to deal with them. Sometimes I’m powerless.
    • Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not? – Sometimes I’ll dream something that looks and feels like a really, really good story idea. I’ve only written down a couple of those, and now I can’t find the notebook I wrote them down in. Silly me. I’ve had a couple more “good story” dreams this year but don’t keep a notebook by the bed. Again, silly me.
    • Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it? – A lot of those “story dreams” are lucid or semi-lucid in nature. It has a lot to do with the dreamworld in my mind, the one I spend time building when I’m awake and sometimes appears in my sleeping dreams. When I’m in that familiar territory, part of me wakes up and takes control of my dream-persona to actively manipulate the situation. It’s a lot of fun, really. Again, if I were smart I’d be jotting down elements of those dreams for later use. I’m probably a better storyteller in my sleep than I am awake. Sad, really.

  • Sneak Preview of Star Wars Episode 3

    I’ve been enjoying Master Ninja’s riffs on the new Star Wars film for a few days now. For a good laugh or two, check out Smartass Predictions for Star Wars Episode III.

  • Random bits, no rhyme or reason

    There’s a lot going on this week, here are bits and pieces:

    • I’m downloading and will attempt to install KDE 3.0.1, just to see if it’s worth the effort yet. I’ve been underwhelmed by almost every major release of KDE so far. It would be neat if it weren’t so damned sluggish and crash-prone. I didn’t try 3.0, though, and with the recent announcement of 3.0.1 I figured it was time to give it another go.
    • I’ve got my hands onto yet another WinXP-installed Sony Vaio laptop. This time I actually need to try to connect it to our office network, as it is to become the main workstation for Rosey105’s music director. I told the PD that I wouldn’t be able to fully prep it until next week, though. I still have to finish rolling out that Quantum Snap! server.
    • Which brings me to the news that I’ll be coming in for at least a portion of Memorial Day weekend to switch the entire network over to the aforementioned Snap! server. Thanks to the helpful tech support at Quantum, I learned how to set granular folder-level permissions. Now I just have to replicate the existing permissions onto the new machine, a process that should only take about the next two working days. And this one’s already half-gone.
    • This entry deliberately left blank.
    • Tonight and tomorrow night are the perfomances for the dessert theater that Wendi and the kids are in. Weeks of almost-nightly practices have led up to this. I’ll be going to Friday night’s performance.
    • I love ham and swiss on bagel sandwiches. Yum.
    • I’ve learned how to push out a setting change that will tell Mozilla to use our network’s proxy server for web browsing. It’s not fool-proof, but should work for those machines where the individual user’s preferences haven’t been tinkered with. I can also push out a “no proxy” setting change at the same time I change the setting for IE.
    • I have the ability to view all image files transferred via the proxy server. Driftnet, while evil, may come in handy to tell when folks are surfing for things they really shouldn’t be. Well, that and the proxy server logs.

  • Personal Finance sucks.

    To make a long story short, this website was offline all day yesterday due to a billing misadventure. Gods willing, it won’t happen again.

  • Monday, How I Despiseth Thee

    Today’s excitement (or excrement if you prefer) included The Usual Email Crash, a misconnected reconnected print server in the NRK studio, missing desktop icons, the malware known as RealOne, rsync timeout issues and that damned Microsoft web browser. It’s enough to keep a guy hopping. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have some good material for my devoted fans, but today was just plain work.

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