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Monday, July 24th, 2006
7:50 pm - My blog has moved
I've moved my blog to a Pyblosxom-based blog hosted on my own server.  I've reposted all of my public entries from my LJ there.

The new URL:
http://www.travishartwell.net/blog/

The new RSS feed:
http://www.travishartwell.net/blog/?flav=rss20

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Friday, July 14th, 2006
12:23 am - Redirecting stderr and stdout to a file plus displaying them
It has taken me ages to figure this out. Googling has been fruitless. Finally, after some tinkering, I was able to figure out how to properly redirect stdout and stderr to a file plus display them from within a script. Here's the idiom:

#!/bin/bash

OUTPUT_LOG=output.log
OUTPUT_PIPE=output.pipe
if [ ! -e $OUTPUT_PIPE ]; then
mkfifo $OUTPUT_PIPE
fi

if [ -e $OUTPUT_LOG ]; then
rm $OUTPUT_LOG
fi

exec 3>&1 4>&2
tee $OUTPUT_LOG < $OUTPUT_PIPE >&3 &
tpid=$!
exec > $OUTPUT_PIPE 2>&1

echo "This is on standard out"
echo "This is on standard err" >&2

exec 1>&3 3>&- 2>&4 4>&-
wait $tpid

rm $OUTPUT_PIPE
It works but it might not be entirely correct, particularly the exec &> /dev/null.  Improvements or suggestions are welcome.

Update: Figured it out.  I had to store stderr and then restore stdout and stderr and close the fd that I stored them in.

Update update: Looked back and realized I had a typo on my first exec line

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
11:44 am - Random Ideas
Frustrations

Okay, maybe this is ironic that I'm posting this on my Live Journal account, but I really hate how limited LJ is.  I would love to be able to track site statistics and reads and so forth.  I just got a Google Analytics account for my main domain.  There is currently (and probably never will be) a way for me to put in the requisite javascript code into my template at LJ to have Google Analytics track things.  Yet another reason to move off of it.  After the wedding, I think I'll finally have time to get my blog set up on my own hosting account.  I'm going to be using Pyblosxom as it seems to be most flexible and easiest to integrate with Twisted Web.  I got Twisted Web 2 working with Pyblosxom via WSGI with a minimal amount of code and some help from #twisted.web.  I'll post how I did that when I get that blog up.

Random Ideas

I figure this would be a good place to throw out my random ideas of things I want to hack on, things to figure out.  Feel free to tell me my ideas are dumb.  Feel even freer to tell me that they've already been implemented or that you want to write them. :)

In reference to my prior entry regarding my IRC and IM setup, here are some things I've been thinking about:
  • I want to write a programmable chat notifier, so I don't have to be constantly logged onto my session locally.  I want an application that will connect to my proxy for me and, when certain conditions (regular expressions or something) are met, notifiy me via libnotify and the notification area of my Gnome panel.  That way I can't let IM/IRC distract me.
  • Write a wrapper around XChat-Gnome to handle my setup more cleanly:
    • If my ssh tunnel is not started, start it, prompting me for the password
    • Turn off the notification plug-ins (sound, notificatoin, and on screen display) to start.  As bip is playing back my log to the session, I don't want to be notified.
    • Find out, via d-bus or a python plug-in or something, that the playback is done and then enable those plug-ins
    • If appropriate, on exit, kill the tunnel
I've started using Evolution as my primary mail client, so I have a few things I want to do with it:
  • Update my (not-yet-released) new mail notifier: 
    • Make it more robust and clean code-wise.
    • Give more information, if possible.  (Number of new messages, perhaps message information)
    • Leave an icon in the notification area until I click the pop-up notification or the system tray icon.
    • When clicking either, go to the new messages in Evolution
  • I get a lot of spam -- probably 1250 or so in the last week.  I need to curb that.
    • We use spam bayes on my mail server.  I need some way to retrain it, when it misses or mis-classifies something.
    • I also use spamassassin locally, which works for most of what I have.
    • First filter on spam bayes, and then spam assassin classifications.
    • I want to be able to set up something -- like search folders -- that will capture messages that are in the junk folder, but missed by one or the other.
    • I want to be able to automatically re-train spambayes and spamassassin appropriately on these.
So, for Evolution, I need to figure out the following:
  • In what order are the filters applied?  Junk filters and then user-defined filters?  Can I specfy the order of this?  Can I specify the order of my user-defined filters?
  • Can I set up a filter that is only applied when I select it?  For example, I need to write some shell scripts to handle re-training Spambayes on my remote server.  I would like to be able to click on a message and then tell Evolution to pipe that message to a given program.  Can I do this?

I think that's all of my random ideas for now.  I probably won't get to any of this until after the wedding.  Of well, priorities, you know.

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11:41 am - Ten Days and Counting
On Saturday, May 27th, my sweetheart Torie and I are getting married!

Ten days!


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Monday, May 1st, 2006
2:43 am - Iswitch-window handler update
I keep meaning to announce that my iswitch-window deskbar handler as described here, has now been included in the core Gnome Deskbar Applet distribution, as seen in the 2.15.1 announcement. Any further changes or improvements will go directly into deskbar cvs.

Enjoy! Thanks Raph and team for a great project and including my contribution!

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2:23 am - LazyWeb Help Me Find the Right Software
As aluded to in my previous entry, I have a lot of ideas that I want to pursue. Some of them may require me writing the software. Others might be just finding the right software. I submit for advice on the follow two projects/needs. Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me directly at lazyweb@travishartwell.net. Note that a preferred requirement for all is that the software be Free and Open Source Software. Also note that I have full control over my own server, which I share with several of my friends.

Groupware for One

I've recently switched to using Evolution as my primary mail client. I'm learning to set it up properly and utilize its full potential. Since it isn't a console-based client, I can't easily just access it from anywhere. I solved the still-have-access-to-my-mail-wherever-I-am with a combination of imap and mutt on my remote server when I need to check mail from my Treo. Additionally, as I am embarking on a new stage in my life, I want to be more organized. Ideally, I would like a way to access my contacts, tasks, and calendar items where ever I am. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be a trivial thing. It would be nice if I could set something up that I could point Evolution to at home and at work. It would be doubly nice to be able to sync my Treo with this as well. So far I haven't seen a solution that is (relatively) easy to set up. Note, that I only need this for me, and perhaps at most one other user.

I would prefer to stay away from web applications because I like the flexibility and the integration with my Gnome desktop that Evolution gives me (that lack of integration is a whole other blog entry). Also, these applications generally are useless from my Treo. Finally, there are probably times when I would like to access this when not online.

Blogging/Content Management Software

If you are reading this, you probably already know that I use Live Journal. It works, which is nice. But, I'd like to have greater control. I'd like to be able to easily track page reads and other statistics. I'd like to integrate this as part of my overall domains. I already have my own server, hosting travishartwell.net, softwaretoolsmith.com, and torieandtravis.com. I possibly would like to host a blog (for different subjects) for each domain. I'd like to be able to integrate this easily with permanent content, like code from my personal projects, presentation slides, and other such things. Currently my sites are hosted with Twisted Web, but I can move to Apache or something else if the software platform warrants it. So, what should I use? What's easy to set up? What will make it easy to combine static and dynamic content? I'd prefer not to write my own CMS. One of my greatest desires is to start building an on-line presence where I can share ideas, code, and interaction with the world.

Thanks lazyweb!

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1:51 am - Life Changes
Job

This coming week is my last week with Roxor Games. I have enjoyed working there and all of the friends I have made among the hard-working team there. I only wish them the best of luck in the future. They have great products, great people, and great ideas.

I start my new position as a Software Engineer with 21st Century Technologies on May 8th. I'm excited for the new opportunity, the interesting problems I will work on, and the intelligent, talented people I will be working with.

Marriage

In less than 4 weeks, on May 27th, my beautiful fiancee and I will be married in San Antonio Texas LDS Temple for time and all eternity. I am anxious and excited about this new stage in my life.

Thinking

All of these big events have got me thinking a lot about what is important in my life and what I want. I've been facing desires and ideas of things I want to do, projects I want to work on, characteristics I want to acquire, etc. I hope that I can make these ideas and plans more concrete in the coming weeks and months. I'll most likely write about (at the very least) the technology related ideas here.

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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
6:10 pm - Finally, a Near Ideal IRC and Instant Messaging Setup
Instant messaging (IM) and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) are an essential part of how I communicate with friends, family, co-workers, and the Free Software Community. Finally, I got things working in a near ideal way by combining Bip, Bitlbee, SSH, Screen, irssi, and X-Chat Gnome.

Feature Requirements
In no particular order:

  • Always connected so I don't miss important messages and can follow long-running conversation threads

  • Ability to detach without logging off so I can concentrate on other things

  • Non-intrusive notifications when I receive messages

  • Logging of all conversations

  • Ability to connect from a variety of places and environments (my Treo 650, my Linux machines at work and home, my fiancee's Win XP machine)

  • Ability to be connected simultaneously with multiple clients without using different nicks

  • Be secure and ensure my privacy as much as is possible with these public networks



How I did it )

I have a few more ideas of what I want to do:

  • Make my logs searchable by Beagle and, by extension, The Gnome Deskbar Applet

  • Create a plugin for Galago to provide presence information from XChat for bitlbee users

  • Set up irssi to make sure that channel and query windows for a given server connection are always sequential

  • Set up irssi and xchat to better integrate with bitlbee, for example, displaying the typing status, etc

  • Write NafAI to respond when I am away.

  • ....Profit



Hope this is helpful.

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Friday, April 14th, 2006
3:15 pm - Switch windows with the Deskbar Applet!
I just recently started using the awesome Gnome Deskbar Applet. I realized it would be a great fit for a piece of functionality that I missed sorely from my Sawfish-using days, iswitch-window. Basically, hit a key and a list of all open windows shows up. Start typing and all windows that have that substring in their title or application name are shown, cycle until you get to the one you want, and hit enter. Bam! Now you have switched to that window. Way handy. Quicker than many other means.

So, here it is:
iswitch-window.py

The obligatory screenshot:
iswitch-window handler screenshot

You can also watch my screencast (800x600, 2.1 MB).

Any feedback, improvements, patches, etc are gladly accepted to deskbar@travishartwell.net.

I need some help though...it won't always switch to the correct window when I have to switch to another workspace. If there are any wnck gurus out there, I'd appreciate a look-see.

Hope it's useful to y'all!

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
11:57 am - We're Engaged!
Last night I asked Torie Lynn Henson to marry me. She said yes!

We need to call the temple first, but we're planning on May 26th or May 27th.

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Friday, October 21st, 2005
2:32 pm - Beethoven Poster Wanted.
I'm trying to find a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven for my wall at home.

Beethoven has long been one of my heros. I was attracted to his piano music as a young piano student and expanded into enjoying his symphonies and other works.  As a disabled person myself, it is very inspiring to see someone overcome such a very huge obstacle as deafness to go on to produce what I consider some of the most beautiful works created.  It is because of this that the 9th Symphony has grown to be my favorite work of his -- not only is the music and the text of the choral movement beautiful to me -- it is something that he composed while completely deaf.

It's because of this, I would love to have a poster with an image of Beethoven, perhaps some notes or sheet music, and some of the text  (the original German, not  a  translation) of the Choral movement of the 9th.  Obviously, I want something very specific.  I've looked at allposters.com and several other online poster sites and I haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Does such a thing exist?

Since the likelihood is small of exactly what I want existing, is there a source where I can get high quality electronic images of Beethoven that I can freely use?  I'd want to take a try at making something with The Gimp or Inkscape or something like that.

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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
7:01 am - Post from my Treo
Just trying out a LJ client, Vagablog, on my new Treo0 650. I doubt I'll be posting any long entries with this though. However, look to see a review of the Treo and some Palm applications here soon.

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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
1:54 am - Malcolm Gladwell Book Signing
Tonight, I heard Malcolm Gladwell -- who was in town to give a keynote at SXSW -- speak at a local Barnes and Noble. He is as engaging of a speaker as he is a writer. For those who don’t know him, he is the writer of The Tipping Point and the recently released Blink. This was part of his speaking tour to promote Blink.

Blink

I don’t feel particularly capable in doing an apt summary of his books or the talk. His ideas are particularly engaging to me, and it was quite significant to me that the first two examples from his book that he shared tonight were the two that hit most closely at home to me. He first shared the story of a woman (I don’t have my copy of the book with me and I can’t remember her name) who successfully became the First Chair Trombonist for the Munich Philharmonic. In general, maestros during this time period held the belief that men were more capable classical musicians, so the symphony orchestra was typically a man’s world. For this particular audition, however, the candidate was performing behind a screen because a relative (a nephew or cousin, I believe) of one of the selection committee was also trying out. Once the information of the gender of the candidate was removed, the most talented and capable person was able to be selected -- in this case, a woman.

I would like to quote a small selection from the end of the book the captures this event for me:


“When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.” (Blink, page 254).


Next, he shared statistics he gathered regarding the height of CEOs in America. This excerpt contains the information in full. Consider, that only 3.9 percent of adult American men are 6’2“ or taller. Looking at the samples of Fortune 500 CEOs, a full 30 percent were of that height or taller. Additionally, it was found that in the general population, an inch of greater height is worth $789 more a year in salary. Given that, my brother (who is 6’4”) should be making an average of $17,358 more a year than me (only 4’6“). This second example he shared tonight together with the female musician’s story form an apt description of something I struggle with internally. Though I have never (that I am aware of) had any major discrimination based upon my height, it is still a factor in the relationships I pursue in my life.

In his book and presentation, he goes on to mention other examples of how we are able to make decisions in split seconds.

Quotable Quotes

I never mastered the art of note taking in college, so these quotes should only be counted as paraphrases and not exact quotes.

In speaking of the symphony audition:
”we made the maestro a better decision maker by removing information from him.“
”the evidence of their eyes started to contradict the evidence of their ears“.

Speaking of how to overcome bias: ”we change the problem by changing the context of the decision making. Shifting the focus away from the individual to the environment can fix things overnight“.

His book and speaking is ”an attempt to take snap judgements seriously and acknowledge their centrality to the way we interact with the world“

His suggestions for when to best use these instantaneous decisions:

1. When it is in an area we have real profound experience.

2. When we have made honest effort to interrogate our instantaneous decisions for obvious bias.

Blink!

I plan on spending more time reading his work and trying to integrate these ideas in how I do my work. I hope to have the opportunity to hear Gladwell speak again.

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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
7:36 pm - Frustration
There are really only a few successes I count from the last few weeks. In the aggregate, I’ve been fairly frustrated with various major issues in my life. Coming off of an illness that took a lot out of my physically, having some frustrating experiences in a near-relationship, dealing with some general great personal weaknesses that come back to haunt me, and the pressures of work have all taken their toll. This has left me finding myself not being very productive at work or as happily and anxiously engaged in social pursuits as I would desire. I’ve found myself doing a lot of day dreaming and wishing, feeling fairly unable to move forward.

The Successes

However, as mentioned, I have had some successes. I recently restarted the practice of Morning Pages, as advocated by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way and her other books. This time I have been true to her instructions (which I have not been in the past). I write as soon as I get up in the morning. I write longhand for three full pages of whatever comes to mind. I’ve been fairly diligent about this and today marked day 11 in a row of the practice. Just as with any meditative practice (which I feel like this is a combination of prayer, meditation, therapy, and creation for me), the real benefit comes after a sustained effort for an extended period of time. So, we’ll see. Sustained effort has always been a bit of a challenge for me.

My second success has been that I have taken up exercising again. I’ve had a gym membership for a few months, but as usual I stopped attending. I was able to exercise five days last week. I hit the treadmill, jogging for 25 minutes, 3 days last week. I was able to attend one yoga class -- that’s something I wish I had more time for. I also played volleyball on Thursday night with the regular crowd from church. I haven’t made it to work out every day (I didn’t make it today or last Tuesday -- there’s something about Tuesdays this year), but it is slowly improving.

Musings

One thing that has really occurred to me lately, especially through my practice of morning pages and all of the reading I’ve been doing (I think I’ve read or re-read at least 10 books in the last month) is that I really enjoy writing. I hope that eventually when I crawl out of this shell that I seem to be stuck in right now I’ll be able to express myself in more ways than just in my morning pages. Lately I feel a greater draw towards writing than I do programming; though I view the two as two different aspects of the same thing. Both are using language with a given syntax and semantics to express a given idea. One just happens to be algorithmic and the other not usually.

I wonder how I can snap out of my lack of productivity at work. I hope this isn’t just a case of “while the boss is away...” I really don’t want to be that type of person.

Well, this disk I’m burning for work is almost done, so I’m off...

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Friday, July 16th, 2004
3:02 pm - More on "Boo on the RIAAA"
I came across a link to this interview with They Might Be Giants on Slashdot, so most of you have probably already read it. I’m not really a huge fan of TMBG’s music, but I really respect them. A couple of excerpts from one of their answers regarding their releasing digital music without DRM sums up how I wish the music industry (and entertainment industry as a whole) felt (emphasis added):


How would you eat, then?
That’s my problem. Being a musician is an unreasonable idea anyway. The life expectancy of a professional career in music is five or 10 years. That would be a long run. It’s not something you do because you’re being sensible. We’ve been curiously blessed with an audience that was interested in what we’re doing in a pretty sincere way. It’s hard to say why we endure. I think the sad thing is that we’re going to see a lot more actors making records and the whole thing is going to seem like a bad superprovincial version of rock. Popular music as its own self-contained world—like the world our older brothers and sisters enjoyed while looking at the liner notes of whatever mid-‘70s record—is really fading out. People just don’t get exposed to music in an organic way anymore. Ask the average person what songs are in the top 10—nobody knows what’s in the top 10. You could make a pretty persuasive argument that the future of selling music is over.


If only others were devoted to sharing their music with others, having fun, and possibly being successful with it without limiting others.

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Friday, July 2nd, 2004
2:12 pm - Boo on the RIAA, the DMCA, and Senator Hatch's INDUCE bill
Last night, to celebrate my first paycheck on salary, I went and bought a vacuum and a CD. You know that real life has set in when you celebrate by buying a vacuum. But that’s not the point here. I bought the latest Hoobastank CD, “The Reason” because I really enjoy the title track. It is one of those songs that I could listen to over and over and not grow tired of. Since I enjoyed it that much, I hoped that the rest of the CD was just as good. I haven’t yet had time to listen to the whole thing, but I doubt it will be a CD I’ll just stick in and listen start to finish like I do my Creed CDs.

This brings up an interesting point. Personally, I would have loved to have been able to buy just the single “The Reason” in electronic format online. Sure there are many places I can purchase music online, such as the iTunes store, the Walmart.com store, Napster’s new store, etc. As far as I know (and someone correct me if I am wrong, please!) each of these sites uses some sort of DRM or offers music in only a proprietary format (i.e., not mp3 or ogg). That makes the music utterly unplayable for me. First, my primary stereo is my Linux computer where all of my CD collection is encoded in either MP3 or ogg format. Secondly, I have a mp3-capable deck in my car. Of course, neither or these is capable of playing an DRM-enabled music. How am I supposed to listen to music that I legally own?

I wish the RIAA (and the government to a degree) didn’t automatically assume that every consumer was automatically a criminal and a thief. I don’t download music I don’t have the rights to download. I don’t share my music collection by burning CDs or giving the mp3 or oggs to anyone else. I just want to listen to the music I like, where I like to listen to it, on whatever devices I would like to listen to it on. I want to be able to support the artists that I like and compensate them for their creativity and work.

I wish the RIAA weren’t so greedy. I wish the government would realize how horrible the implications of the DMCA are. I wish Senator Hatch and those supportive of his recent INDUCE bill that will supposedly only hurt the “bad guys” but potentially could be interpreted to make things as common as a VCR or an iPod illegal. Why?!

It is because of this and other similar such actions that I recently became a donating member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Even if you don’t feel like you can or want to donate, at least visit their Action Center. You can choose a specific issue and put in your name and location and it will give you the option to have them either e-mail or fax your Congressperson stating your support or feelings against a specific issue or bill. I encourage everyone to go check it out.

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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
4:48 pm - Work and Such
Update

I haven’t kept my adoring public (yeah right) updated since I have moved to Austin. I think I really enjoy Austin. I like having my own apartment although it is a bit empty. Anyone want to donate a nice used couch and kitchen table and chairs? At least if anyone in the Austin area knows of any good deals (at a particular garage sale or thrift store or the like), let me know.

Work
I enjoy working at Roxor Games. I have my own office, and that is sadly lacking in wall adornment. I just need to pick the right posters for my wall. I’m thinking either some spacescape such as a picture of the moon and the Earth or of one of the nebulae or something. I currently have a huge whiteboard sitting on the floor of my office; I think it might be for my office. I have a fairly decent dual-boot Linux-Windows 2000 x86 desktop and an old Wallstreet Powerbook running Mac OS X 10.3 sitting on my desk. I also use my own Pismo Powerbook running Debian Linux for all but the x86/Windows/Mac OS X specific development and testing tasks. The work is good, though I am feeling a bit overwhelmed as I expected. The transition to full-time work has been a bit difficult as anticipated. I hope I am not expecting too much but it seems very hard to get everything done that I need to. Hopefully I will grow to better understand how to handle my various tasks and feel like I am making progress.

Random Bits

As usual, I have had bits and pieces of various ideas on my mind lately. I’m always seeking for tools to help me be a better person and do my job better. I need to proceed with the stalled work on Informant. It’s for my own sanity. My habits of focus and concentration are highly erratic and keep me from my full potential. If I have Informant set up and monitoring those things that I care about, I think that would give me the peace of mind to allow my attention to be where it probably should be.

I also have a great desire to get some content and a decent design on my website. I have long toyed with the idea of using Nevow, but just haven’t seemed to have got the motivation to figure out what exactly I want/need to do. Lately, however, I have started considering using Muse. It actually seems to be a bit easier to figure out for my purpose, since I really don’t need dynamic stuff, just templating.

Additionally, [info]deeptape has shown me Personal Organizer that he uses to keep track of a lot of different kind of information. He has notes, logs, journals, etc. from a few years, IIRC. It made me realize I really don’t have any organized way that I use to keep track of information that I might one day need to easily access. I’m not sure what I want to use to capture and organize things. I have been using Emacs Planner Mode for planning, scheduling, and journal writing for the last couple of months, though probably not as much as I should. Since it is based upon Emacs Wiki Mode, it is naturally fitted for organizing and linking data. Also, with the addition of planner-remember.el, I can just simply hit the key I have bound to (remember) in Emacs and it will pop up a buffer where I can take quick notes. Hit C-c C-c and it will save that on my page and I can link to or organize it later. But I somehow want to integrate bookmarks and other things into this somehow. I probably should take some time to write and brainstorm about what I wish to accomplish.

I should wrote more rambles more often to get these ideas out.

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Thursday, May 13th, 2004
8:08 pm - WOW
Jobage

A lot has happened this last week. One week ago today, my present part-time employer, Roxor Games offered me a full-time salaried position. I will be relocating to Austin, Texas from Logan, Utah Memorial Day weekend (that's the last weekend of May for your non-USians). It's all happened so fast.

I'm shipping some of my big stuff (like my computer and printer) to Austin and then packing the rest of it into my car. My sister is helping me drive down and then flying back to Salt Lake. I just made her reservations and also motel reservations for the trip down.

I've got my apartment all taken care of. I am renting my own 1 bedroom apartment. This will be my first time living all by myself. I'm looking forward to having "my own space". It's unfurnished and I've been living in furnished apartments. I guess now I'll really be acquiring stuff.

I'm excited for this new opportunity and the exciting things I will be doing with Roxor. Moving across the country to a new place is exciting. Two weeks doesn't seem all that far away though. Gulp!

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Thursday, April 29th, 2004
10:04 pm - To do!
  • Actually create a website design so I can add content
  • Make links to all of the materials for the presentations I have given
  • Write up and post the scripts used to auto-created a chroot jail for sshd and scponly
  • Finish writing up system security techniques.
  • Update resume
  • Have link on tm.com/services/consulting updated for my new e-mail address/homepage
  • Fix spam filter on colo box
  • Finish writing goals list and categorize into time frame
  • Pay summer rent

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Saturday, April 17th, 2004
11:19 pm - Unexpected turn of events
I just found out that my apartment is being rented out to girls this summer. In other words, I have got to move. I have to be out of my apartment in 3 weeks. There is no way that I will be making the move to my future place of employment at that time. My plan was to tentatively stay at my current apartment until I was able to make the big move. I made the mistaken assumption that the apartment would still be rented to guys and I could just go sign up for the room next week or something.

I have no idea what I am going to do now. I know that it will all work itself out -- I just have some extra work to do in the meantime to figure out where I am going to live.

I've got a lot to do if I am going to be moving out of this apartment in 3 weeks.

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