Personal

Someone seems to be using my alan@ and arcterex@ email addresses to spam people, and I am reaping the rewards in mail bounces. For the last couple of days I’ve gotten about 66 bounces (that I have kept) and lots more I haven’t. Someone selling dollar store stuff, and another that just shows up as […]

Every once and a while I search ebay.ca for things that interest me in the off chance I’ll actually find a fantastic deal. Nothing yet, but that’s mostly because I’m searching for things that people don’t auction off really cheaply, like iPods. So today I do a search and see an auction listing an iPod

Jim came out tonight and we hit the climbing gym again. It felt pretty good, but still, after an hour and a half I was completely baked. My fingertips are still raw. I felt I did pretty good at the begining of the night, got well stretched out, did a couple of good pulls on

Damn you egradman now I want to go skydiving! Via random($foo), another weblog full of non-suckage.

Took my parents out to Indian food last night as a combination Fathers day/mom’s birthday celebration. Mmm…. indian food. Yummy. I was up late last night compiling the latest Linux development kernel (2.5.71-mm) in an attempt to figure out / stop the crashes I’ve been having under high disk I/O or network use, which has

Finally got around to holding the “alan has had a big apartment for almost a year now isn’t it time to have a lan party” lan party. Started the festivities around 9am (or was supposed to anyway) and people finally showed up around 10, which was good, because 9 is far too early in the

Funny how things work. Yesterday I surfed to a random site which turned out to be a windows user’s blog (no offense 🙂 Through that site I found a bunch more interesting places including the .NET desktop screenshot gallery (from ISerializable) and found rwlodarc through his desktop. Another was Sam via a random click on

Yay! Finally a bit of rain to put the smack down on that damn pollen that’s been killing me lately. It spat a bit over night, and then some more on the way into work. Hopefully things will be cool for the LAN party next weekend. Played soccer again last night. There were less people,

Wow, I want the rain back. I love the sun, but man, the last couple of days were just killer. The apartment has sucky circulation (windows only on one side), so I spent 2x$69.99 for a couple of window fans to replace the ones that we had (that came with the apartment from Iambe and

Not a horrible weekend. Saturday I got the last (<fingers crossed>) of the changes for my last contract out of the way. I haven’t heard anything from them yet, but I’ll throw a bill in their direction in a couple of days unless I hear otherwise. That took care of most of Saturday. Sunday we