I’m pondering coming out to a group of more-or-less coworkers. I’m not sure I want to (they think I’m female (Yay that!)) … and they only know me online, so in some ways, I’m exactly where I want to be.
Not sure what to do.
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Yesterday, Susan at the pet store said that I should write technology articles for the local papers. She’s one of these people who avoids turning on her computer due to lack of understanding. I like the idea.
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I woke up at 7:40 from a dream where I was late to work, had left my cell phone (and alarm clock) at work, missing two important appointments. A very unusual way for me to start the day.
Read the news, realized I had a conference call at 9. Which was a no-show. Got breakfast at 10:30, and the radio played TMBG and the Indigo Girls while I ate.
Memories of Corvallis.
I’m listening to an old mix that Robyn gave me right now. “I’ll Be That Girl” is such a button-pushy song for me. I ate burritos with sour cream and avocado and barley and tomatillo salsa in them, just like I did living there. I’d love nothing more than a mug of tea and to go wander to the park with Robyn and talk.
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I spent a half hour extolling the virtues of Orson Scott Card’s work to an avid non-reader of fiction. Life is fun.
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I hate having to use <code><pre> rather than <code style=’white-space: pre’>, but aggregators and feed readers ignore external CSS, and Planet strips CSS entirely from the embedded HTML. Blah. Here’s to XML in 2010. Maybe we’ll use it to its advantage then.
IPv6
I just got pTRTd and TOTd working on the local network. If you use the right nameserver, it’ll direct requests for all names to be translated to IPv6 addresses by TOTd. The names it returns are (by configuration) magically happening to be the ones that pTRTd will forward to the IPv4 host, meaning that a machine speaking only IPv6 can talk to the IPv4 internet:
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aredridel@betelgeuse:~$ telnet google.com 80 Trying 1000::d8ef:3963... Connected to google.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: google.com`HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://www.google.com/ Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=5568f1724a0d5c4b:TM=1108068407:LM=1108068407:S=6Z7R1-PKbx73Xmu6; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com Content-Type: text/html Server: GWS/2.1 Content-Length: 152 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:46:47 GMT
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <H1>302 Moved</H1> The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>. </BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
Pretty cool, eh? Yes, on my network, 1000::d8ef:3963 is Google. It’s not a legal address, and my first attempt to use the site-local fec0:: address space failed: Linux does some weird shit to addresses like that. At least since IPv6 has so much address space, you don’t need to use site-local addresses except as the Right Thing for local translators and things like that. Oh, well. I just yoinked 1000::/64 since all legal IPv6 addresses currently live in 2000::/3 or 3ffe::/16.
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I just said goodbye to Meli, my cousin. She’s headed back to Aspen to work the rest of the winter, then back to Buenos Aires. She says I should come to Argentina. Maybe after I pay off the business…
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I should be in bed, but instead I hacked on the Wiki renderer, adding something I’ve wanted to do for a while — add XHTML2-inspired links. Any normal markup can now have <url> appended to it, and it will turn the previous thing into a link. I think it’s delightfully clean, just as the href attribute working on nearly any element in XHTML2 is elegant.
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It’s amazing how little changes between the time you go to bed and the time you get up when you go to bed at 3 and get up at 8.
I woke up to a Guster track that Robyn sent me. It’s on my top ten favorite songs list, for sure. When nobody’s looking, I dance to it.
My cat is a pain in the ass. He got his dinner last night, but I think he’s being preemptive about making sure he gets fed, and we have no food for him until I go to the pet food store. A few minutes ago, he jumped up and hung on my back. Now he’s in my lap, kneading my thighs with more claw than is really neccesary. All the while, he acts so cute you could hardly tell him to get lost.
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/transnews/481667.html: My day just got much better,
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I completed 1/4 of what’s needed to get rid of LDAP in my infrastructure for The Internet Company, and replace it with PostgreSQL.
Complete: Replication with Slony-1
Remaining: Convert DNS and users to SQL. Enable nss_pgsql. Write web interface for DNS in particular.
In the future: Integrate the user management with the billing management.