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Month: June 2004

  • Washuu V

    The first two computers to be named Washuu where I work were puny little NT servers designed to serve up a few web pages and also run a NetMeeting portal.

    The third Washuu added file-depository work to those earlier tasks, and also saw the upgrade from NT 4 to Windows 2000.

    The fourth Washuu has been in service for a couple of years now, actually. We’ve long since stopped using NetMeeting (though she was still basically set up for it), but we added hosting a QwestDex directory as well as the server monitoring system. But she was getting just a bit slow for the sorts of tasks I wanted to add to her workload; there’s also the fact that getting the last of the Windows servers off the public internet would be a Job Worth Doing ™.

    So I took the innards of my former office workstation (a P4 2.4GHz and other nice bits) and built the fifth server to bear the name Washuu here… and the first not to run any Microsoft code whatsoever.

    I still have some work to do. For one thing, the website needs complete revamping, and there’s the minor issue of not having any automated system in place to ping my phone when servers go down. (Oops. Yeah, that’s Priority Number One right now.)

    Anyway. For what little it’s worth, check out The Lab, the cheesy little website I run on (the new, improved) Washuu.

  • TMA: Too Much Anime?

    I spent Friday and Saturday afternoons and evenings over at the kids’ place while Wendi worked DJ gigs. This isn’t unusual, actually, except for the “Friday” part.

    What is unusual, however, is the sheer volume of anime I viewed over those two days. I’m trying to churn through all of Card Captor Sakura, for one thing, and there’s all this new anime I’ve been getting my mitts on that also needs watching…

    So, let’s see, what’s the tally so far this weekend?

    Card Captor Sakura: Episodes 12 through 30.
    Scrapped Princess: Episodes 1 through 4.
    Samurai Champloo: Episode 4.

    You do the math. Me, I don’t want to know how many total hours that is. Oh, and let’s not forget the non-anime programming (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Day The Earth Froze) we watched yesterday…

    Whew!

  • …my robot wife…

    Don’t even ask me to retrace the lengthy and bizarre websurfing path that led me to it, but here’s a comic strip (of sorts) that caught my eye and made me laugh:

    A softer world (May 21st 2004)

  • Sans Webcam

    You’ll notice the OfficeCam link that normally lives right below the contact information at the top of the right-side column is gone. This is because I’m changing around the computers in my office, so the machine that normally provides the webcam “service” is unavailable for a while. I’ll get it running again at some point in the next few days, if at all possible.

    We apologize for the darkness.

    (Update: I’ve got it back. Not only that, but the cam page actually looks like the rest of the site to a certain extent. Whee! I may be having some problems getting it to refresh, though, so if the image never changes for you please let me know. Thanks!)

  • The Return Of The Mighty G

    Portland radio listeners have been waiting with bated breath to see, or rather hear, what KNRK will do with itself, post-Marconi. Two parts of the answer are now revealed.

    One, the new domain and website, including logo and nomenclature. (By the by, if you don’t like having your browser window forcibly resized, I recommend getting a better browser and setting the Javascript options accordingly. Ahem.)

    Two, a familiar face I was pleasantly surprised to see in the hallways this morning: Gustav! He’s back, folks. In fact, he’s (officially) the only air talent confirmed to be in the new lineup. Sadly, I can’t even begin to guess or hint at who else will or won’t make the cut… but it’s good to see The Mighty G again.

    Mind you, it was sort of surreal creating an email account for him… again. Heh.

  • Camping At The Coast

    Here’s the short version, because it’s much to hot and icky to concentrate right now. (I’ll probably come back and fill in anecdotes in the Memories category later. I said, probably.)

    Thursday, Dawn and her friend Adam swung by and picked me up for a trip out to the coast to camp with a group of friends of theirs. The weather was beautiful, the company was excellent, and the only real downside was the darned mosquitos. (There weren’t even any bees. Yay!)

    Seriously, does it get any better than wandering up and down the beach in between hearty meals and afternoon naps and snarky conversation? Not by much, it doesn’t. Just about the only complaint I could lodge is that there weren’t any interesting clouds to make the sunsets more cameraworthy. Hmph.

    Speaking of which, I took over 100 pictures. Sadly, most of them are bunk. What’s salvagable will end up in the Gallery… eventually. Along with the backlog of other images that need uploading. Ahem.

    Anyway… it was a lovely four-day weekend-ish thing, and while I’m glad to be back in the land of real showers and convenient technology, I will always sort of miss those lazy days next to the beach.

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