December 2008
8 hour layover, i’m starting to get really way to used to the miami american airlines lounge
So after some research, i decided that the protests in Thailand are very similar to Venezuela. The protesters are actually demanding a coup!
November 2008
Well this time they’re letting me board… homeward bound…
Oh, what i want to do right now is really not really futz with apache2 conf files to fix my blog….
There, i got my blog back online… now to get back to writing things for it…. one step at a time.
Bought myself a mini-dvi to vga adapter, no projectors ever seem to have dvi anyway.
Everybody’s packing up, i guess that means this cafe closes at 6pm…
Lemote YeeLoong 8089 8,9" ultra mini-laptop... →
Cloudvox →
http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/capi... →
New Stories at The Fertile Source →
Got to the airport, discovered my flight was canceled. They rebooked me for tomorrow. But they did upgrade me to biz the whole way.
Gaba put up a blog with pictures / notes about the work she’s doing with OLPC in Uruguayan schools. http://flordeceibo18.blogspot.com/
Wow, serious wikipedia divergence! http://bit.ly/aguinaldo-spanish (annual bonus) http://bit.ly/aguinaldo-english (christmas carrols)
Some yahoo employee is talking loudly on his cell phone in the cafe. Everybody else is being polite. grrr these yahoos follow me everywhere.
Flor de Ceibo - Grupo 18 →
Robby on Rails : Review: Braintree →
GNOME Launch Box | Imendio Developer Pages →
Waking up with not nearly enough sleep… coffee, then loading bags in the rental car, drive to the airport, and off…
Packing for the flight home, and playing with my awesome eee 1000 laptop
Well, two big bags packed, each 49 pounds. Only going to get 4 hours sleep, but that’s traveling i guess.
oh the fun packing game, how to balance it out so each bag is less than 50 lbs
Fun afternoon sorting through the storage shed. Now we’re about to sit down to a small thanksgiving dinner. Missing @gaba & camilo
Starband people shut down the net connection several days early, bastards. But ssh tunnels to the rescue! I’m back online!
Oh, while our internet may be working, the oven is not. Thwarting the turkey eaters from having a cooked bird.
Spent half an hour sluthing around little brother’s hard drive, to discover %75 of his disk was invisible network cached files. OOPS!
Tried to explain to my little brother how to use ping to check his net connection. He typed “ping 192.168.1.1” in to firefox’s address bar
Wifi with the new router is kind of flaky in the loft, it used to be where i could get the best reception. Odd.
Geocoding helps a LOT when following news from mumbai - http://bit.ly/uiKw Just local tweets
Good morning, blue sky and sunlight has returned, lit a fire in the wood stove, cup of coffee, and catching up with the interwebs
Congress Matters →
My mom got the generator fixed in town, it was sorely in need of maintance and a tune up. We’ve now got MUSIC. INTERNET. LIGHTS. HAPPYNESS
The sun has gone behind the mountain, the 24 volt battery system is down to 18 volts… my net connection will die soon… must keep twitte
Gray day out, no power from solar panels, the generator’s on the fritz… feeling very offline
O’Reilly has created a foocampers mailinglist for all years. Posting is even more intimidating than foocamp in real life. lurking in safety
Even when i think, let’s do the simplest thing which could possibly work, why is it that i come up with solutions which are not very simple?
Installed a new router and the internet is working at pantilokpom… off the grid and on the net again!
Eating big fluffy pancakes, stoking the fire, and getting online.
Trying to find folks for my mom, an architect, to meet when she heads back to Jaipur for the semester via Delhi.
Heading up to pantilokpom in the mountians for thanksgiving.
peg.md at master from kragen's peg-bootstrap —... →
Just got off a protest.net conference call, very interesting process to update a 10 year old web project with a rewrite
Damn i don’t normally pass on ads, but American Airlines has SUPER cheap flights to brazil right now. http://tinyurl.com/aa-cheap-brazil
MakeMyTrip - India's No 1 Travel Web Site, get... →
Apparently you can book tickets here for india rail
Just finished watching season 3 of the wire… I’m really enjoying the show, my favorite show in quite a while actually
Wow, i’m not sure what to say, Israel arrested a group of neo-nazi Israelis. Just wow. http://tinyurl.com/israeli-nazis
Working from a cafe, overhearing some hippy in dreadlocks buy some land with a house on it directly from the owner…
Ran in to Jake at the taco stand, he was my neighbor growing up and long ago we were best friends..
Ordering travel stuff from Patagonia, i figure it’s worth it, as their stuff lasts for ever and they replace it if it ever breaks
Trying to reserve indian train ticket for my mom, the indianrail.gov.in site is full of ads and is broken. FAIL.