General

Are any of you running OneCMDB? If not, are you running some other Configuration Management Database?

I wanted to buy a netbook tonight. I failed. The website claimed the item was in stock. Off I went. “Sorry, we don’t carry that item at this store.” I’m sorry Best Buy, but I’m not driving to another store until you give me accurate information.

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 had barely anything on it. My parking spot is more exposed to the wind, so less snow settled

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 details – Done take the patches from wxs for Bacula and feed them upstream – Done Adjust the

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 (or so I was told we were rebooting it). Then we rebooted my Verizon router, which was odd.

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 Send out RFP reminders in Jan contact the theatres regarding Star Trek (ask in OCLUG who has seen

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 be strange to not be wearing it. It was made from silver melted down from necklaces I no

The US postal system seems pretty good to me. I mailed some bike parts back to Chris King in Portland, from Philadelphia. I mailed the package at about 5pm on Tuesday night. The package was delivered about 1pm the next day. Cost: $5.45, including delivery confirmation. Nice. Very nice. Chris King had already sent me replacement parts. This was the return of the broken part. That part threads into the hub and is