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I added althaea to my friends page because she seems to write some cool stuff. I also seem to have picked up a couple more friends due to what I will call The althaea Effect. Welcome kidarrian and creentmerveille. The reading around here may not always be insightful, but will at the very least be honest. Usually I post like once a week to say what I did over the weekend, but sometimes I post something insightful or even clever. If you find my writing interesting, great, otherwise if you decide to wander off I shall not take it personally. I am writing primarily for me, and entertaining you the readers is not a huge priority, but I do try to be thought-provoking when the mood strikes.

Wed 10/1: Bike, 12.7 miles Thu 10/2: Bike, 14 miles Fri 10/3: none? Sat 10/4: Walking, 30 min Sun 10/5: Bike, 7 miles Mon 10/6: none Tue 10/7: none Wed 10/8: none Thu 10/9: none Fri 10/10: none Sat 10/11: none Sun 10/12: none Mon 10/13: Bike, 8.5 miles Tue 10/14: none Wed 10/15: none Thu 10/16: none Fri 10/17: Bike, 8.8 miles Sat 10/18: none Sun 10/19: none Mon 10/20: Bike, 10 miles Tue 10/21: Bike, 10 miles Wed 10/22: none Thu 10/23: Bike, 8 miles Fri 10/24: Sat 10/25: Sun 10/26: Mon 10/27: Tue 10/28: Wed 10/29: Thu 10/30: Fri 10/31:

Friday: Forgot what we did, probably had take out for dinner or something. Saturday: Up to my mothers to help her with her PC and deliver a new printer. It is a Brother fax/copy/print/scan thing (color and all) and I’m tempted to get another for myself ($99 refurbished). Mom seems to be doing fine. Driving home from 10:30 to 1:30 sucks since I was totally afraid I would fall asleep at the wheel… I stopped once for food and again for coffee. ...

World according to Verisign (thanks to bryant for the idea) Thanks to Sitefinder the following people found their way to my server who otherwise would not have. from www.14159754614.com to 14159.com from search:“sex cartoos” to b5mush.nekodojo.org/events.txt from www.thesoundlord.com to soundlord.com from soundlworld.com to soundlord.com from www.throghdreams.com to throg.com I’m thinking this is a *really* helpful service. Completely worth all the hassle to admins and computer professionals world-wide. Or else I’m not thinking that… one or the other.

Having meetings to talk about best practices is actually quite fun. It would be more fun if Sacramento were not 2 hours away. That is all.

I was not supposed to be on call this week, but the guy who is on call has an unreliable phone, so it’s the next best thing. But at least I don’t get paid. There was index-push related foo so roughly half of that I wouldn’t have gotten out of anyway, but, well. However, despite a few rollover calls, I am feeling quite good about my job right now. I am like a lighthouse on the Sea of Uncertain Merger. Well, maybe not a lighthouse, but at least I am keeping myself focused. ...

This Wired article says that BIND (named) software should have a patch available quite soon to make it ignore Verisign’s *.com and *.net “typo redirect” DNS entries. ObPersonal: The article quotes Paul Vixie who I used to work with briefly at DEC. He is good people. Go Paul! Go ISC!

I just sent this to ICANN- To: comments@icann.org Subject: Complaint: Verisign wildcards Verisign’s recent addition of wildcards in the com and net TLD’s: \* is a blatant abuse of their “custodianship” of these domains \* will cause numerous headaches and lost productivity for network admins \* will also cause a *huge* amount of spam to flow unhindered, which would otherwise be stopped as an obvious fake domain They claim this is intended to “help users” – but it is clear that their motives are selfish and commercial. *.com is intended to cause advertising dollars to flow to Verisign and to cause Verisign to have an unfair advantage in securing new .com registrations. ...

Saturday: Went to Fry’s and got a printer for my mom. I also got a scsi card so I could hook up the old tape drive, and a mini sheet scanner. The first one had no instructions or software disk so I had to go back. The second one didn’t seem to work (got huge black lines all through) but after rerunning the calibrate option it seemed to work OK. Had Chevy’s mexican food for dinner. ...

cos reports that Howard Dean will be in the Boston area Tuesday and Wednesday… FYI