I’m gonna be moving my blog over yonder to Wordpress.com (their hosted blog service). The import/export was actually a breeze. Kept all the comments, etc., and set up everything without me really having to do much work. This is good!

Hopefully I’ll do a better job of updating the new one (and keep me from getting spammed to death/haXor3d since it’ll auto upgrade for me…).

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Stupid cubes.

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They passed these out for free at work on Friday. I will conquer it!

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Star Wars fans hate it when previously-deceased characters are brought back to life, but we also hate Timothy Zahn for not bringing his characters back to life. Star Wars fans did not hate Grand Admiral Thrawn, but we do now, because he is always dead.

So true.

Also, if you don’t understand the irony in the placement of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure in this list, you need more culture in your life. As an aside, it’s the list of the 100 best rated sci-fi films of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes. YMMV.

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• Moved to Cambridge! The new place is on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central… pictures are up on the gallery.
• Got a new car! 2007 Civic LX Sedan. It was partially intentional — I had been saving up for one for awhile, but unfortunately a car accident (friggin’ cab drivers) accellerated my plans.
• I left IBM to start a new job at Linedata Services. I’ll write more about why later, but for the most part I got bored and wanted a change. As much as I worked with IBM nothing seemed to come of it.

Whee!

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Number A: I’m on a new server hosted by Dreamhost. This way I don’t have to bug Spence every time something breaks, and I don’t steal his bandwidth with my image gallery. Letter 2: I haven’t moved everything yet — the gallery is 600+ megs of pictures, and so those will need moving later. If anything else looks broken, let me know and I’ll see about fixing it.

More updates later!

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On a similar note, I hereby threaten bodily harm (read: I’ll IM you alot) to anybody who doesn’t come to the COSI Reunion Extravaganza. I’m specifically hinting towards the illustrious clarkbw and the distinguished Mr. Steve, who have gone mostly sight unseen these past few months. Considering I could probably throw stones at Bryan’s office, and I interviewed in Steve’s department, a caravan of vehicles (a carpool, if you will) of sorts could be arranged to said reunion.

I’ve recently been working on the magic of Eclipse Perspectives. Interesting way to lay out a UI. Though it can be painful. Because it’s Eclipse.

I also recently installed Fedora Core 5 on my lappy. As shiny as the Ubuntu install was that I had, I missed being able to upgrade packages outside of their bugfix releases. The install crapped out the first time through (python errors!) but went fine the second time around. What impressed me the most was the fact that suspend worked right out of the box, as well as an install of Beagle. Major kudos to the guys who worked that out. I need to “dirtify” my install by putting an MP3 codec and DVD playing stuff on there… anybody have links to good info on where to find repositories for that kinda stuff? For that stuff, and Banshee.

Life otherwise is good… busy juggling work, ministry work, and my giant timesink. Though it’s all good times. For those of you that didn’t notice, my sisters visited here recently — so I have some semi-decent pictures up of it. Hopefully I’ll get around to updating captions for them soon.

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At any rate, I finally have internet in my apartment. After waiting a month. After 2 visits from Verizon and 5 from Comcast. I could have had Verizon FIOS (fiber) really cheaply but they didn’t believe that I was able to get it in my apartment (even though my landlord’s office, which is in the building right in front of mine, can get it). They made a request to the “engineering department” (i.e. those who control The Database of Homes and Apartment that Does Not Lie About What Services are Available to You) to update my record and they came back saying it would take another 3 weeks (I’d been talking to them on the phone for 2 weeks already) for them to do it. And even then, they couldn’t guarantee that I’d be able to get fiber. Bah.

So I call Comcast. Not a very different experience, really. They got really hung up on the fact that my building was new and had never had cable service before. They sent out 3 service guys before it got through their head. Each time they came, they went “oh, you don’t have a line running to this building.” And every time I would reply “I know, I told you guys this over the phone. Every time I call I tell you this.” Finally I got in touch with the local contractor who would actually be doing the work and they got it straightened out, and they said they would be coming to run the line and install my cable. The lied. They had trouble fitting a cable line down a 4 inch PVC pipe and they blamed the 1 inch Verizon line in it. Go figure. Comcast sent out yet another contractor on yet another day to install the line and I finally got service two days shy of a month after first calling them.

Now I just need to get some more furnature (and rugs!) for my apartment, which incidentally breeds, raises, and pastures dust bunnies.

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