Evidently the company that hosts this site had a rack power supply go
bad and that brought down my host and the network link.

Which could be something to gripe about if I had anything pithy to write
today but reporting the event seems to be the only thing so far.

On a work related note: The install-from-hell that I’ve been fighting
with for the past 3 days was resolved and my initial question, which the
other vendor gave a confident “it works” answer to, was the culprit. It
seems that the art of doing 3-wire serial connections is a lost art as
the cable was wired incorrectly, next time I bring a cable tester with
me.

I won’t begin to go into how much grief that caused me since I had to
backtrack and *prove* that is wasn’t my software that was failing – lets
just say that 24hr diners, 10 year old POS terminals and techs who
haven’t learned anything new since ABBA was hot is a bad mix.

ugh!

I have survived the encounter but not without certain damage. I still
have to go out for supplies but at least that is no where near the usual
xmas shopping places.

Reading my previous two posts has made me realize that I’ve been away
from the written word. IRC has drained all semblance of structure and
-grammer- grammar from my writings – it will be a positive experiance
and hopefully not the only one from the journal thang.

*note* edited to correct a spelling gaff (thanks micah!)

Updating the stylesheet for this journal – can ya tell :)

I am going shopping.

Now for most people that is nothing of interest but for me, someone who
hates crowds and mass consumerism, it is something to dread and the only
reason is that lainens wants to go finish the xmas shopping.

/me looks and finds that as a synonym for love

Yes, I have crossed over to the evil that is web journal.
I’m justifying it by saying to myself that it is after all a way to increase my python and apache skills,

But we all know the truth.

So I guess the fun will be finding out if I have anything really interesting to say – tho I am loathe to turn this into a spew-factory or, even worse, another three-entries-only journal that is prevalent.