I would like to upgrade Charon, and then use the old Charon as the new Poly. This would allow me to retire the old Poly which is starting to show its age. The new Charon should be a small-ish PC (physical size) so that it can hide under the desk neatly. The current model has a 10G drive. This should probably be closer to 30G in order to be able to back up stuff onto the server from our personal PCs. Or we could go with a 9G drive and add a second 30G drive for backup/extra storage in order to be more flexible later. ...

Things I would like to change about my life, in no particular order: Diet, cooking Exercise Get a new house Daily writing Spend more time with friends Gaming Learn Japanese Learn Java

I got up at 9:00 this morning to work on upgrades to the mailing list software on poly. Everything went smoothly, and we are now running mailman-2.0.13 (last version was 2.0.5). As a side effect I noticed that there is one list with 19 messages waiting for moderator approval, and the moderator’s old address doesn’t work anymore. Everything seems to be OK with the new version, however. I feel like this week was pretty productive as far as work is concerned. I still feel that there is a lot more stuff we could be doing to improve our operation, but that we don’t have enough staff on hand to get ahead. Still we were able to clear out some old pending items, so that is forward progress. ...

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I discovered the Default View feature; this is useful if you have lots of people on your friend list and don’t want to read them all, all the time. I already had a filter-group set up for this, so I just renamed it to “Default View”. I actually read most of the folks I have marked as “friends” but there are a couple folks I wanted to include as friends just so they could see any friends-only entries.

Hello, not much going on. I haven’t had much time to write, probably because I have been more tired than usual. I have been waking up tired, despite going to bed at a reasonable time. Nothing serious, I think it’s just because the air mattress has gone a bit soft. P.S. All the media-driven frenzy regarding “9/11 memorial” can go to Hell, thank you. I prefer to remember a bit, perhaps forget a bit, but I will do so in my own way. I don’t appreciate all you TV, newspaper and radio folks trying to sell more media pre-empting normal shows and trying to be the Most Sensitive, Most In-Depth, Most Whatever 9/11 anniversary memorial Thing. ...

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Sun 9/01: none Mon 9/02: none Tue 9/03: none Wed 9/04: none Thu 9/05: none Fri 9/06: none Sat 9/07: walking, 30 min Sun 9/08: none Mon 9/09: none Tue 9/10: none Wed 9/11: none Thu 9/12: none Fri 9/13: none Sat 9/14: none Sun 9/15: none Mon 9/16: walking, 30 min Tue 9/17: none Wed 9/18: none Thu 9/19: none Fri 9/20: none Sat 9/21: none Sun 9/22: walking, 30 min Mon 9/23: none Tue 9/24: none Wed 9/25: none Thu 9/26: none Fri 9/27: none Sat 9/28: none ...

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