Coming from my new laptop: monopoco

Blogging in bed… one of life’s better pleasures. Today we are doing a little rusticly, with a cat 5 snaking out of the office and into the bedroom, but no fear: Wifi is on order (AP for $60, PC Card for $35, both after rebate). The laptop is a p133 with 32mb, now running linux. 32mb isn’t enought to run galeon happily, so I use X11.

Galeon session support really comes in handy here. If you didn’t know Galeon has a feature in that when you exit galeon it will save all the urls it has open and when you start it again it reopens them. Also works if it crashes (at least 3 times a week, but with the session feature I don’t mind). And in this case it works great to move to another computer and then ssh in and do “galeon -q; galeon &”

The Onion Covers My Birthday

Second Birthday In A Row Ruined By Terrorism Second Birthday In A Row Ruined By Terrorism

HOBOKEN, NJ–In what threatens to be an annual ritual, Rob Bachman, born Sept. 11, 1973, braced himself Tuesday for yet another birthday ruined by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Glad my fellow birthdaymates are a story of national bemusement.

26!

Today is my birthday. Nope, I’m not kidding, it really is. I turn 26, which feels, old. But it’s been a pretty good year.

One year ago today I was awoken by the phone. It was my father-in-law, and my wife answered the phone. Intrested in what he was calling about at 11:30 in the morning (neither my wife or I had started our jobs so we were sound asleep) I listened in to the conversation. After much confusion (“What do you mean, ‘What’s going on.’ Haven’t you been watching it?” “Watching what?”) I ended up setting up this scarry media overstimulator (that link is the top google hit for my name, btw).

The warroom idea was great until the BBC and Canadian new feeds were cut off. Then it got boring. American news sucks. I want DirecTV to have a “world news junkies” package that has BBC, Al Jezzera (which is reportedly adding a english feed soon), a few channels showing all the nightly news programs from all over the world with english subtitles. I want it all…

In the following days mirrored the gpg source code and anything else I could think might soon become contraband on my hard drive. Things fortunately didn’t get that bad.

As part of reflecting on what I could do to make the world a safer place for the values that I believed in, and what my country was built on, I joined in the development of Mojo Nation, which became Mnet. I feel I’ve added a lot to the project with the GUI, and now trying to make the code more accessable to all who would like to add to it. Now if we can get micropayments back in.

One of the things I would like to do better is money. Money has not been good to me this year, most likely because I haven’t been good to it. I’m not talking making megabucks, but not going slowly towards bankruptcy would be nice.

25 was a good year. 26 will be even better.

Suck in Cold Spring with the bandwidth blues again...

So I’m in NY. A few days here and I’ve promised myself that I will not leave my house for more that 24 hours unless I get a contract signed in blood that states there will be a less than 250ms, greater than 128Kb/s connection to the net at my destination.

This library has 4 terminals, 3 with no chairs all in front of the main desk. I guess the are trying to stop pr0n viewers from using the computer. There are other computers that use Cybersitter. Wonder if they allow outgoing ssh connections. I was hoping to get some work done here, but I don’t think it can be done.

Mnet progress and Wiki Markup In Blogs

Mnet is moving along, and it should be because I’m pushing hard. The new downloading code, dubbed BlockWrangler is working (look in cvs’s HEAD). I’m trying to get the DownloadMonitor code working with it so the GUI gives more feedback.

My blog really needs a Wiki markup filter, so that I can use the much easier to type Wiki markup language in my blog.