Aaron Baer - Connect the Dots

Geeze.. A couple of crazy weeks. I’ve been busy, Work, PTP, life.. Seems the last two weeks are a blur. I crashed last night and finally got some sleep. I could use some more.

Node674 went up so nicely last weekend. We’re covering about a 4 block radius with that sucker. I should try and get some pics this weekend if I can.

Node675 and Node676 are this weekend. Both are Linksys Wrt54g’s running OpenWrt. I think I’ve finally started to get the hang of OpenWrt after a couple of sporatic days of use.

And we had our PTP Monthly this week. PodCasted for the first time by the beloved Tom Higgins. You can get at them here http://www.personaltelco.net/~tom/podcast/rss.xml
That’s me doing the meeting stuff.

Shit. That’s it for now.

Dinners on the stove.. Node674 is almost built.. Need to get the antenna stuff squared away with Faddah.. Busy..

New Audio is fun.

NASA has just released some information regarding what happened to the Earth after the tsunami causing quake a few weeks ago. The North Pole moved an inch.. and the whole planet changed shape a bit… that’s incredible. What’s also incredible is it’s something that really happens all the time. Check out the short article for some more info.

Oh sad sad day.. Brad and Jennifer are spliting. After 7 years even.. say it ain’t so.. anyway…

Busy freakin’ week this week. Things have shimmied into overdrive at work. It was a good week there though I was able to stay on task and have everything going smoothly for my scheduled development tasks. Next week starts the nitty gritty but I think it’s going to go quiet alright this year. Things are definately more on the ball than the last few years as far as the business getting decissions made and being proactive on making this year go well..

But enough of that.. I got the Pod today.. so now I guess I’m part of the Pod People. I’ve been Podified. Awesome device. She will be named “slyPod”. Living life with a real time sound track is something that I’ve been waiting for now for a long time. Of course I ran into the normal issues that I see around the web regarding using the iPod mainly with linux. I thought that I was going to be able to leave it formated hfs+ and was successfull the first night copying tracks and files but the next morning I ran into it. The whole can only mount you read only and wanting me to fsck.hfsplus it. There wasn’t anything wrong with it.. I could mount it fine to Danielle’s iBook.. and I found that there currently just isn’t a work around for linux. So I reformated it fat32 and now it works with everything. Must get three things; firewire for the laptop I use 95% of the time, a protective cover for the devices itself, and some freakin’ better headphones. I tell you.. you’d think they’d ship better ear buds right off for a device that cost so much. But they’re mediocre at best. I’m sure there are reasons they do it that way…. but as I said before… anyway……

So today Eden’s at school until 3:30 and I’m going with Danielle to help here pick out some more stuff for her computing environment. Printer.. speakers… mouse… ear buds… you know the usual stuff. That should be fun. I’ll have to look around for some accessories for my new slyPod too.

So I think I’ll chill out a bit more… Lots of things to take care of this weekend. It must be the busy season.. Because I’m busy!

Fun weekend.. New Years 2005.. another year gone by.. I hope that this is the start of a good one. It seems so so far. Lost of things to look forward to.

This weekend has been great. Staying home, hanging out with Eden, doing projects around the house. For New Years we went to sushi with Danielle and Matt then headed back to the house and just drank, played games, and hung out listing to music the whole evening. Really it turned out to be a great time.

Projects accomplished so far around the house this weekend. Patched the gapping hole in the hallway that was left over from the bathroom remodel. Will have to prime it later tonight or tomorrow. Hung Coat Rack in same Hallway after the first attempted ended with the coats on the floor. This time it should stay up. Also, I hung the blue shelf in the Studio. That also should stay up.

Things left to do.. Touch up paint the ceiling in the bed room. Paint and hang the shudders for the bedroom. Paint the newly patched hallway wall. I’m sure there’s more. oh yeah.. Laundry.. damnit.. there’s always Laundry..

We went on a great walk today. I’m sure Nellie was ready for it. I think she was a little stir crazy this morning. But we went to the Park .. then back to the house for some lunch and then on another walk. The weather here was awesome today.. Sunny, blue skys and mild.. 40ish..

I’m in the bling now baby.. The holidays left me able to finally purchase the long awaited geek toy that I’ve been hoping for for a long long time now. Thank you so much to Mom, Dad, Sarah and Fred.. I ordered it on Friday so I don’t have it yet but that hasn’t keep me from checking their website to see if anything new is happening with the order. (It’s a holiday weekend even.. I know.. I know.. but I’m a bit of a freak sometimes.. ) Yes.. an iPod..

So one of the other things I’ve been checking out this weekend is the whole podcast revolution. Interesting that it takes getting an iPod to check out this media because it really is independent of having an iPod.. it just shares a name. Anyway.. Not to many Linux clients out there that automate the process but after trying a couple we’ll see how bashpodder works out.

I think I’ll have a beer.. want one?