Bunny update

It looks like Bunny most likely has lymphoma (i.e. cancer) at a moderate stage. We are both very sad about this, obviously. At this point we’re not sure where it is, or how bad it is, but we’re pretty sure we don’t want to go the chemo route. We want to focus on making sure he is not in pain and that he’s enjoying himself. We will keep everyone updated.

December 19, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor

What I believe about health care

Here’s what I believe about health care in the US. 1. Everyone should have it. Every other industrialized country has decided that health care is a human right and has found a way to provide it to everyone. We should do the same. We should not let anyone else die or go broke because they don’t have health insurance. If Europe can do it, so can we. 2. Making a profit from health insurance isn’t right. ...

September 29, 2009 · 2 min · gconnor

Blizzard GM contact

Here is a paraphrase of what I reported: Hello, I am having trouble finding NPC “Ringo” for quest “Lost”. After waiting 30 minutes we went and did something else, and checked back a couple of times in the next hour… still no NPC. Please check to make sure the NPC is in the correct place and let me know when I can try again to complete this quest. Thanks. Here is the reply I received: ...

May 25, 2009 · 2 min · gconnor

WoW server question

I’m sad that even though I have a lot of friends that play WoW, they are all on different servers. I would love to hang out, chat, quest and even RP with my friends, but I hate having to pick and choose. If you play WoW, and especially if you might like to play, hang, chat, rp, quest, etc. with me, please comment here! I wish to know: What server(s) do you play on? Would you consider coming to another server occasionally? Would you move your chars to another server? If you did move to another server, who else would you try to convince to come with you? While playing, how much time do you spend grouping with others vs. soloing vs. RP vs. fishing/farming, or what? What times of day do you play?

May 25, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor

Further adventures in customer support: Blizzard

Blizzard is no shining star in this matter either, though I’m willing to forgive one slip of the “respond with form letter” button. > Request ———————————— > Product: World of Warcraft > Category: Payment Issues > Subcategory: Credit or Debit Card > Description ——————————– > After a charge was declined by my bank, I called my bank (Chase) and they informed me that they are refusing all charges from Blizzard due to unusually high number of chargebacks. > I’m upset that I can’t use my favorite credit card (my only credit card, actually) for paying Blizzard. Can you update me on what Blizzard has done and what you plan to do to get back on board with Chase? > ...

May 16, 2009 · 3 min · gconnor

Open letter to Chase Cards

Hello Chase team, I have had many declined transactions over the last two days, and because of these I have called and spoken to Fraud Operations representatives six times in the last 48 hours. Transactions that have been declined include: Buying books from Amazon, which I have done month after month for some years Paying for an online game, also something I do multiple times a month Paying for rental equipment from a music store, also at least monthly for many months Getting gas at a Shell station about a mile from my house that I’ve used many times before Getting gas at a different Shell station, after calling earlier the same day to complain about my earlier rejection at Shell ...

May 16, 2009 · 3 min · gconnor

Twitter

I am @nekodojo on twitter. I’m not sure what I’ll be posting, but for now I’m just using it to follow people I know. If you want to follow me, go for it. If we know each other but you don’t want to follow my twitter right now, maybe reply here to let me know who you are, or send @nekodojo Hello via tweet.

April 7, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor

Sophie

Sophie passed away at 3:18.

March 24, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor

Sophie update

Sophie has had a bad week, health-wise. The upshot of it is, unless her status changes dramatically for the better over the weekend, we will most likely have a painful-but-pretty-clear decision to make on Monday. We have known this was coming, so we are as prepared as we could have been, but it’s still hard. She has been with us longer than we’ve been married, so she is close to 18. We have had a long and happy time together, but that doesn’t make it any easier either. ...

March 21, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor

Linux encryption geek question

OK Linux geeks. Imagine you have: 5 or 6 Linux servers with their disks full of files A need to encrypt the files so that if the servers are lost in shipping, secrets are not loosed No extra disks and no extra servers to encrypt “onto” How would you arrange to encrypt stuff “in place” where creating a mountable, encrypted filesystem isn’t really feasible? Is there a magic wand I can wave, or do I really need to write my own script to PGP-crypt everything one file at a time and delete? I’m assuming there isn’t a paid product that will encrypt “in place” but if there is, we probably would want it. ...

January 14, 2009 · 1 min · gconnor