Archive for April, 2005

GnuDIP, revisited

technology

Uh … don’t try to change a domain you don’t own. Heh. Sometimes its the simple things.

GnuDIP

technology

So a friend asked if I could host his domain for him. Sure, no problem. Do it all the time, whatever. But there’s a wrinkle… his ip address isn’t static. So generally that would lead down the road of engaging some service like dyndns to take care of you. However, …Read the Rest

Themes!

graphics

I’ve added a bunch more themes after browsing the most recent Alex King WP Themes competition. Good stuff over there. The ones I selected were: Batavia 1.5 by Jose Mulia Desert Theme by evil.bert Fading Flower by CallistaWolf Greenwood by Peter Binkley stucco by Chad Coleman There were several others …Read the Rest

PSP

gaming

Ok, so I broke down and bought one. I got ‘Lumines‘ and ‘Mercury‘ for games, both puzzle style games. They’re both great, and promise hours and hours of time wasting goodness. I’ve heard complaints of dead pixels. I have none to speak of, unless I’m just not noticing them. The …Read the Rest

So I’ve finished with my 3 weeks in San Josie getting trained up. I think things have gone well so far, and the learning curve, while steep … is right up my alley. I definitely have some additional things I need to focus on, like the F5′s, and maybe some …Read the Rest

Rollin’

technology

I think I’m starting to get into the groove. I’ve been working tickets on my own now (with backup from the primary, obviously), and I’m starting to understand better what my role is, really. It hasn’t changed my accepting the fact that I still have a shitload to learn, but …Read the Rest

Reliable, fast Internet service seems to avoid me. When first I’m too far from the local CO to get the proper kind of service, then I’ve got an old router that doesn’t do routing properly. Then when trying to analyze the routing, and get a console cable working, it decides …Read the Rest

Week 1

technology

Alright, I figured I should probably post a quick note here about how my time at my new job is going. eBay is, in short, one of the most massive technology installations I’ve ever been a part of. Actually, no… it is the largest, by far. I though Sun had …Read the Rest