Author name: Dan Langille

I have a job. I drove up to Ottawa on Sunday. Along the way, I got my TN status for the job. On the way back, I had my first close up encounter with a flying turkey. Full details

It is snowing in much of the north east of USA today. A few flakes were coming down by the time I arrived home at about 9PM on Sunday night, but there was no accumulation. By the time I went to bed at about midnight, the cars next to mine were covered but the Subaru

Welcome to unemployment. What was ironic about today: At lunch, I dropped off a cheque to the car dealer for the Subaru Outback XT I’d picked up two Fridays ago. At 2pm, I was fired. DOH! Bummer. My resume. Thank you.

There are a few random tasks (in addition to my big list of things to do) that I’d like to tackle over the weekend: Start regression testing Bacula on 7.x – Done Send out a BSDCan letter of invitation – Done Complete that application for security clearance – Hmm, partly done…. just need the vehicle

Today I arrived home from a 12 day business trip. While I was away my home network lost connectivity. When I arrived home, I started to investigate. dhclient was running. No IP address. Running it found no DHCP servers. The MoCA light was flashing red on the ONT. I called Verizon. We rebooted the OTN

Taken from the original with completed items removed. I have several items I would like to complete in the short term. Writing them down may help me commit to doing them. To Do allow new server to slave DNS move IRC proxy to another server put cover back on BAST get SSL working with EFNET

For the first time since I put it on in May 2001, I am without the custom bracelet Bronwyn made for me just before I left New Zealand. It is not lost, merely left behind. I’ll retrieve it next weekend, and it’s been put aside for me. But for the next 6 days, it will