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.

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

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.

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.

Nokia N800 - SSH port forwarding and Cingular setup

I got a new toy, Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
Now I can have the cumbersome, hour draining, joy of on linux on the go. I couldn't be happier!

Setting up access to my corporate email:
Company email setup : My company has IMAP and SMTP access but not available outside the firewall. They do have a ssh server though to get terminal login access, but required key based login, no passwords. (/etc/ssh_config PasswordAuthentication: no)
N800 setup :
Step 1: I installed dropbear ssh client and server on N800
Step 2: got root by logging w/root password "rootme".
Step 3: Immediately set root password to **** and user password to **** ('user' is the name of the default user on the N800 and you have to set it by typing passwd user as root)
Step 4: Create dropbear private/public key pair

  dropbearkey -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db

NOTE: I tried to convert my existing openssh key to dropbear, but dropbearconvert didn't
understand encrypted private keys and so i decided to create a new private key. In hindsight, i actually think this is a better idea in case my N800 is compromised/lost.

Step 5: Copy public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on company ssh server. Public key was sent to
stdout drop key creation

Step 6: Write a script using vi on N800 to tunnel IMAP and SMTP ports by writing ~/mailports script on N800
#!/bin/sh
echo "Opening ports 14300 for IMAP and 2500 for SMTP..."
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db -l dhubler -L 14300:localhost:143 -L 2500:localhost:25 mail.pingtel.com cat -

run "chmod +x ~/mailports" and run script

Step 7: Configure default email client on N800 ossoemail
Type localhost for IMAP4 and SMTP servers, then last page of email account wizard, hit advanced button and change IMAP and SMTP ports to 14300 and 2500 respectively

Step 8: From ossoemail menu run "Message/Send & receive"

Getting unlimited wireless access through your cellphone from cingular for $39.95/month
I think it's a deal, momma not happy about it. So far, speed ain't great.
No matter how much you think upgrading you MEdia package on cingular is going to let you use for phone as a bluetooth modem, it won't. My Nokia 6102i kept giving "Subscribe to GPRS first" each time I tried to connect from my Nokia N800. You need to get the PDA Connect plane from cingular. The N800 is not a "authorized device", so don't tell them you have that. Find out what ones the support and say you have one of those. Don't ask me how I got around this :). The following connection parameters for me worked, I need to find out which ones are effective, but I hesitate to alter them to find out as it took me so long to get this working

6102i settings
Configuration/Personal configuration settings/ISP.CINGULAR
Account name: ISP.CINGULAR
Data bearer: Packet data
Packet data access point: internet
Auth Type: Normal
Username: ISP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1 (i think)

n800 settings
Connection type: Packet data
Access point name: WAP.CINGULAR
Dial-up number: *99***1#
Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1 (i think)

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I had to give both kids a bath and Alex's little plastic bath fit across the bathtub nicely. Aaron had fun filling up Alex's bath with cups of water.

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My 2nd most favorite snack in the world, a glob of cottage cheese scooped by

exactly 2 Pringles chips (one breaks and gets overwhelmed by cottage cheese favor).

My first is a wheat cracker, with a slice of havarti dill cheese, half a large green olive, and a wedge of pineapple. Dirty Sanchez we call it, and yes, the alternate meaning makes us chuckle. Any and I reserve this snack for vacations only!

Aj (Alex) holding his bottle already?

Aj drinkin bottle of milk/formula. He was holding it on his own for a few seconds.

Xmas toys glee

dem, larie and jens present a hit.

Polar Express

Family(minus Amy who is on girls night out) sits down to watch Polar Express and eat pizza!

Aaron gets a haircut w/o tears

snip-its is a hair salon made for kids. It passes Aaron's test with flying colors. Here he's blowing bubbles while stylist puts on the finishing touches.

Family back from Beverly Hills, FL

back in boston at Logan Airport. Does't Aaron look pleased. Alex came through baggage claim just fine, little chilly, Amy had her doubts about my plan to save a few bucks not buying him a seat.

Aaron visits Dr. in Beverly Hills, FL

wouldn't be vacation w/o visit to drs. Aaron had 105 temp. Amy's out getting meds now

Family Visits Beverly Hills, FL

safe in beverly hills (post was moved from another blog)

Baby 2.0 anytime now

Amy is not happy that Baby 2.0 is taking so long to come out. Although, due date isn't until next Wednesday, Amy had us convinced he was coming early. Last Thursday she what I would consider a 12 hour contraction. We called people to put them on alert, got the bags packed, took a few time measurements between kinda pains and kinda some more pain now.

Needless to say, I'm blogging and not holding Baby 2.0 right now...can't wait...I know what I'm in for now, so I think I'm more nervous this time.

Oh, and mucous plugs...3 already sailing out in the gulf stream...ain't like last time 1 plug -> 1 day -> 1 baby.