FasterLaster.com

After years of running on a linode node I made the move to another host at the house. The advantage is I get a better internet pipe at home, and better performance as I own the entire host, not just a portion of cpu cycles.

Testing how to remote post.

I do all my communications with irc at work, but unfortunately I’m in Mountain TZ and work references Pacific. I found that I could run /script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='PST8PDT'; and set the time to follow pacific, but every time I put it into an auto portion it just flaked out. Perl to the rescue. I wrote a two liner perl called timezone.pl in .irssi/scripts
$: cat ~/.irssi/scripts/timezone.pl
# timezone.pl - set the timzone for irssi.
use strict;
$ENV{'TZ'}='PST8PDT';
And put it in my .irssi/startup file
script load timezone

Now when I start macirssi, it changes my default timezone that macirssi uses.

Ok. I finally caved into the socal networking pressure and signed up for facebook. To be quite honest’ it’s kind of neat how many people I have made contact with since then. Odd things this internet thing.

I finally bit the bullet and got an iPhone. More info to follow as I learn more.

Well today I managed to talk Steph into springing for an imac, so I’ve been in the process of moving lots of data over and learning a new os. Although I love having some real tools under the hood I’ll keep things posted, but I’m real happy for now.

Well, hopefully I will settle down and keep things in one place. I’m now hosted by Linode.com. I went with them both for the price and they are based in my old hometown of Nashville.

I moved the old info over from a decrepid server. Hope performance is better.

After a co-worker kept on and on about how great XM Radio is I finally bit the bullet. How great is this thing? I now can listen to it in the bus, at home, in the garage and at work. While I do have to pay to listen it sure makes up for it in the quality and quantity of music I can listen. The kids are also addicted to the kid channels it broadcasts. I’m expecting that Steph will want on after our first bus trip of the year Everybus

Well after some sagelike advice from my good friend Toby of fatofthelan.com fame I decided to reduce the crapola on my side from a PostNuke site to basically all I ever use it for, a web journal. Hopefully things will continue to post.

I also found a converter to move my postnuke stories to wordpress format.