So I’m looking to play with some monitoring software to figure out why, every once in a while, I get laggy spots when connecting to my server from work. The latest toy I’m playing with is Cacti. Here’s what I’m planning on monitoring (partially because it’s useful, partially because it’s fun): link (Linksys router running dd-wrt) * bandwidth on external IP * bandwidth on each port * wireless bandwidth used

So I’ve had this on again, off again thing with ruby for a while now. Since I first started playing with ruby it got pretty big with rails, and I completely missed that boat. Well, now I’m playing with rails and it’s fairly interesting once you get it up and running. I picked up the O’Reilly book Ruby On Rails and have been walking through it’s Photo project. I’ve went so far as to even throw it in a subversion repository in case I pooch something.

I’m sure I’m not the only person to notice this, but my spelling and grammar has been getting worse. I don’t think I’m the only one suffering from this problem. I’m pretty sure I can attribute it to the internet in general, and this blog/irc in particular. Why do I blame them? Because I’ve gotten used to typing as fast as I can and hitting enter without proofreading. With the blog, I do proofread a bit, but not nearly as much as I should- with IRC, I rarely even think if I *should* say it before hitting enter.

Had a discussion with my wife last week about how much we share on our websites. It sounds like there is some concern that we talk “personal” issues on our websites- like my temper tantrum when pablo died, and how jackie’s family act like children when you get them in a room together. So here is my statement on it. If I discuss it here, I have nothing to hide. I am not perfect, nor do I pretend to be.

so I created a list of things I needed to do, and started incrementally going through it, finishing little projects and problems that I’ve been meaning to get to. I’ve got a whole lot done in the past week: got squirrelmail working properly fixed the DMA on both workstations Fixed Jaxon’s cdrom Set up Kmail Fixed the DNS issues Swapped HDs around get spanish dictionary working for jackie in OOo Set up LDAP Some of these have been floating in my head for years (ldap) while others have been broken for just as long (DMA, squirrelmail).

I finally let go of draccus.net. it was a sad day. I’ve not used it in over a year, and it’s just sat unused. I’ve replaced it with morgajel.net for the most part. I figured it was time to move on. So what’s the history of draccus.net? well, it was the first domain I ever bought. it was my first real website. It was there when I was hosting on my CSIS account, it was there when I set up my first list server at Brookmeadow, and it was there when I proposed to jackie.

Hrm… I think I’ll try something new this year. As some of you know, 12/31 is my birthday, and I’m 26 now. That makes it twice as good to look back on my life and reflect. So what’s changed? Quite a bit. I always had a goal growing up, that when I was 25, it would be the one of the best years of my life. Looking back, I think that it very well could be.

so, you might have noticed my site has been acting oddly the last few weeks- I’ve found a bug with mod_rewrite in my current setup. I’m not sure what or how or why it changed, I just know that sometime between Nov. 10th and 16th, mod_rewrite stopped allowing implicit redirects that wordpress uses. I’ve since modified the .htaccess file to use explicit redirects, but it’s ugly as hell. until I figure out wtf is going on, that’ll have to work for now.

nothing inspires rage more than spending 30 minutes on a wordpress article only to have firefox crash when you press the left arrow key. I’ll write my lotus notes rant later.

One of my side projects this past year was developing a “Radio Show” program to track and display info about songs currently playing on my stream. I’ve taken the last few months off, but now I’m back on track. http://morgajel.com/radio/index.php Unfortunately the stream is not available to the public (You can thank the RIAA for that bit of bullshit). If you have any comments, feel free to add them to my bugtracker: http://morgajel.

Have I really gotten this busy? I have been neglecting draccus.net for years now, and morgajel.com is falling to the same fate. I picked up morgajel.net to complete the set, and figured, “hell, I might as well set up a wordpress.” Let me know what you think, Hopefully this will keep #asp off my ass about implementing RSS. Now I just gotta customize it. -Morgajel