February 2006


Our little crawling pit of cess and pestilence got me good. He doesn’t seem to notice the snail trail of spittle and snot he’s leaving behind him but I’ve been laid up for three days with the works- fever, aches, cough, phlegm and worse. I’ve given him a new moniker, Nathan ‘Vector’.

On the bright side, if there is a bright side, I usually get sick while on vacation so maybe it won’t happen this year.

Experienced a few days of unplanned downtime. The system wedged but still responded to ping. I was busy and didn’t notice that I had not seen the daily summaries until my Dad mentioned it today. Self-hosting is getting tired after six years.

Joseph and Karan visited from California and we have more pictures.

HammerNode, a free dynamic dns service by Gregory Keefe, is going down in mid-February after five years of operation. Thanks and goodbye. It was a great service when I needed it.

For reference of folks who need it, there’s a long list of other ddns services over at DMOZ.

Whatever you think of Cindy Sheehan’s clumsy, personal brand of activism, read Glen Greenwald’s discussion of her arrest at the State of the Union speech.

Are you worried about civil rights yet?