Great long weekend at the Franklin Farm in Ashland, ME. Whole family was there including Charlie, Noah, Ed and Laurel. Bob bought a new DR brush http://www.drpower.com, worked great clearing the new growth that has come back bewteen the pine tree I've been clearing the last few years. Man am I soar.
Aaron had a ball on the electric gator http://www.rbflett.co.uk/acatalog/MCE40933X000.JPG, figured out the gas pedal, but not the steering, luckily Noah was there to help avoid too much damage sans the rhubarb patch and a small yew.
Speaking of rhubarb, Alex has a taste this weekend, he ate it along with anything else he could get his hands on.
Came back and only chore I was able to get done was to replace my router replaced. Last week my Linksys WRT54GL running OpenWRT was going in and out, so I got a Linksys BEFSR41 to replace it. I have a netgear access point was wasn't using so I was covered. I suspect the WRT is still ok, but I figured if I'm going to run experimental software on it, I should have a backup
Off to bed, long day driving back.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Leaving Pingtel ...
Just 2 more days at Pingtel. I decided to leave after 4 years at Pingtel. I started this long blog about why and what the next job offer has, but I quickly realized all the material was for my benefit that I'll never go back and read it, so I decided to spare you from a long and boring email about open source and standard corporate blah blah blah. I convinced myself 2 weeks ago and so that leads me to just 2 days left at Pingtel.
I plan to have withdrawls from the project I helped run called sipXconfig and my partner in crime Damian over the next few months. Working at Pingtel was quite a ride and working with Damian was spetacular. I have no doubt I made a life-long friend, I just wonder if he'll let me make a video call to him at the top of every hour to discuss topics such as: why bird watching is just like fishing, open source is the quintessential example agile programming and how mini vans really do drive like cars.
I plan to have withdrawls from the project I helped run called sipXconfig and my partner in crime Damian over the next few months. Working at Pingtel was quite a ride and working with Damian was spetacular. I have no doubt I made a life-long friend, I just wonder if he'll let me make a video call to him at the top of every hour to discuss topics such as: why bird watching is just like fishing, open source is the quintessential example agile programming and how mini vans really do drive like cars.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Traveling w/Nokia n800
Couple things of note when traveling w/n800.
- I need to have hotel in google maps so I can easily map directions from there to other places.
- I need to figure out Points of Interest in maemo-mapper because having a text file with addresses is too inconvienent. http://www.portsmouthnh.com was really helpful.
Some pre-mapped points of interest to:
o ice cream
o wifi hotspots
o coffee shops
o liquer/package/convienence stores.
o breakfast places
o movie theaters
o electronic stores.
- Sitting the sun might be warm, but I can't see squat on the screen.
- I need to have it more readily accessable. pulling in/out of backpack doesn't work
- wikipedia can be convenient place to start looking for info about a place.
- set of hyperlinks bookmarked
- menus to potential resturants
- local newspapers
- I need to have hotel in google maps so I can easily map directions from there to other places.
- I need to figure out Points of Interest in maemo-mapper because having a text file with addresses is too inconvienent. http://www.portsmouthnh.com was really helpful.
Some pre-mapped points of interest to:
o ice cream
o wifi hotspots
o coffee shops
o liquer/package/convienence stores.
o breakfast places
o movie theaters
o electronic stores.
- Sitting the sun might be warm, but I can't see squat on the screen.
- I need to have it more readily accessable. pulling in/out of backpack doesn't work
- wikipedia can be convenient place to start looking for info about a place.
- set of hyperlinks bookmarked
- menus to potential resturants
- local newspapers
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Portsmouth '07
so after "Me and Ollie's" we came back to the hotel and started watching "Blood Diamond". Intense movie, we had to stop it half way so Momma could get her massage. I escaped to look for pearl earings because the ones I got her for her birthday have yellow gold instead of white gold. I found some but decided to spill the beans and have Momma take at look with me, luckily I did she wasn't convinced.
We stopped t Gary's Package store and I picked up 2 40ozers, Samual Smith's Outmeal Stout and Shipyard Export. We had Amy's Conundrum wine chilling back at the hotel. We drank, finished our movie and got ready for dinner at the Dolphin.
We arrived at the Dolphin and had a great meai. Arugala salad w/goat cheese, I had duck w/artichoke and Momma had lobster pie. Then we had some cheese (european's have cheese after the meal) some sort of brie and sheep cheese.
It was 8:30 and Amy was yawning, so we walked to Starbucks, got some coffee and came back to the hotel to settle in where I sit typing away on my Nokia n800.
We stopped t Gary's Package store and I picked up 2 40ozers, Samual Smith's Outmeal Stout and Shipyard Export. We had Amy's Conundrum wine chilling back at the hotel. We drank, finished our movie and got ready for dinner at the Dolphin.
We arrived at the Dolphin and had a great meai. Arugala salad w/goat cheese, I had duck w/artichoke and Momma had lobster pie. Then we had some cheese (european's have cheese after the meal) some sort of brie and sheep cheese.
It was 8:30 and Amy was yawning, so we walked to Starbucks, got some coffee and came back to the hotel to settle in where I sit typing away on my Nokia n800.
Me and Ollies
Momma and I ...or maybe I should say Me and Momma are at a little lunch place called "Me and Ollie's" in Portsmouth, NH. Little shopping and walking around. Amy said I had to talk to her at lunch, she should just email me
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Alex was wide awake tonight
He started crying soon after he was put down. I took 2 turns, Amy took 2 turns, finally he stayed asleep. He would stop crying as long as he could see or touch mommy or daddy.
Aaron has had some bad reports from daycare. Apparently he has been ganging up with a classmate to pick on a kid in the big kids room. I re-enacted play time with him during breakfast this am. I used a salt shaker has aaron and a stuffed seahorse has joeseph
seahorse: hey aaron, want to play blocks?
salt: yeah!
seahorse: hey aaron, want to fight with Nicki?
salt: YEAH!
daddy: NO!!!! Aaron, you shouldn't fight, that would make nicki very sad
seahorse: hey aaron, let go play blocks with nicki.
salt: ok.
Aaron has had some bad reports from daycare. Apparently he has been ganging up with a classmate to pick on a kid in the big kids room. I re-enacted play time with him during breakfast this am. I used a salt shaker has aaron and a stuffed seahorse has joeseph
seahorse: hey aaron, want to play blocks?
salt: yeah!
seahorse: hey aaron, want to fight with Nicki?
salt:
daddy: NO!!!! Aaron, you shouldn't fight, that would make nicki very sad
seahorse: hey aaron, let go play blocks with nicki.
salt: ok.
Blogging from N800
I got my Sierra Stowaway Keyboard. It does the job. When setuuo, it looks like something is missing, just looks goofy but who cares.
Blogging is definitely something i wanted to be able to do from my n800. I had a hell of a time logging in, I finally had to go to http://www.blogger.com/login.g and tried that twice before i could get in. Main blogger page wouldn't show login widget, some ajax thing i suppose.
Blogging is definitely something i wanted to be able to do from my n800. I had a hell of a time logging in, I finally had to go to http://www.blogger.com/login.g and tried that twice before i could get in. Main blogger page wouldn't show login widget, some ajax thing i suppose.
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