Geeking

Yup. WiFi just got set up here. Dunno if I mentioned it, but on my birthday my mom got me a wireless access point, as well as a nice evening with some of the best food I, and my few select guests, had had in a long time. Anyway, that was almost a month ago. Today, I got that access point working. Or rather, with Ranc's aid, I got it working. Apparently, what the manuel figured wasn't important was, that the comp connecting to the access point had to be outside the DHCP range (x.x.0.1 ip) seing as the access point itself was out of range (x.x.0.50). Anyway, that's all jibberish to the layman I guess. Point is, we set up a completely new comp, and after the usual problems of getting things to work correctly, we had an active connection via cable. Fixed the settings, hooked it up to the router, and I was able to log into it from my own box. 

Now we've got a wireless network going. Naming things like that is always a problem for people like us, because basically we go through a billion different stupid names before coming up with something that was said right at the start. In this case, the network was named 'Pindemad' which is the danish word for a type of horse d'oeuvre you often get at the likes of gallery openings, and other public get-togethers. I dunno why that word comes up a lot. It's just a fun word, I guess.

Anyway, WiFi for us here at Dalif.com Headquarters. Yay... Now I just need to spend another month getting the PCMCIA WiFi card working in Ubuntu. Anti-yay. I'll get it tho, don't you people worry for even the shortest of seconds about that. I'll get it.

Well it isn't all bad today. And I feel this whole situation shouldn't cast a dark and inpenetrable shadow over our respective lives. It's sad, but of course we must go on.

And it's in the spirit of that notion that I'll go ahead and wish our top international correspondant, Holden, the happiest of birthdays. He turns into a throbbing young man of an undisclosed age today, and for that, the entire staff here at dalif.com would like to extent a plethora of well wishes.

Happy birthday old chap. I hope your day will be one of enjoyment, and that you'll get some wicked presents :)

Those of you who really really REALLY love this site and are here everyday, merrily punching the refresh button, wishing upon everything that you hold dear, a new entry has been made to this glorious blog, will notice a new clickable option in the top navigation bar, namely the mail option. 

Now, for most of you (ie. everybody in the world but me), clicking this link will bring you to a page of little than less interest to you... for now. What it is, is me trying hard to setup a mailserver and thus enabling me to restore the old @dalif.com mail to it's former glory. Back in the days, ages before this blog ever came into being, I tried my hand at different projects. I was interested in the web, but lacked the skills, knowhow and disciplin to really make anything worth while. I still lack those skills, but thankfully others do not, and their hard work enables me to bother the general websurfing public with inane bablings and random lame. Nuff said 'bout tha'. But I did have a few @dalif.com mails going. While they were mostly used to piss about with, I would actually like to get them back, and perhaps even use them. Or at least one of them. And since paying for mail hosting isn't something I'm prepared to do, and since setting up a server by yourself is fun (altho hard and frustrating), it is ultimately rewarding in as much as I get to control every aspect of my mail receiving and sending, myself. I have unlimited possibilities. I like that.

For now, I'm going with a postfix/dovecot/iloha combo... hoping I'll manage to make it work. Anyway, the link is there, and you can have a look at it, but I fear you'll have nothing else to do but glare at the moment. The future tho... who knows what will happen :)

Monday... what a shit day really. Weekend was rough, and today I'm just tired. I doubt I'll do any actual work here today, seeing as there hardly is any for me to do. So naturally, I'll grab at anything remotely interesting to do for the next 8 hours. Or... 7 hours by the time of writing. Dull prospects for a dull monday. It even looks like it's gonna rain.

So what is a man to do? Well there is a number of sites and things I read on a daily basis. Like the imdb frontpage, along with the 16-20 news stories from the industry. Most of it is mindless drivel like who's been divorced, or who's suing who etc. etc. but once in a while there's something interesting. I do the quiz and take the poll. Then there's my rss ticker. A plugin in firefox that lets me subscribe to rss feeds and have them scroll at the bottom of my browser. It's a really good way of staying up to date with sites you don't necessarily visit daily.

One of these sites is xkcd.com - a web comic strip. I forget when I stumbled upon this first, but I'm following it adamantly afterwards. It's one of my favorite webcomics. It paints a picture of geeks that isn't stereotypical, and thus true to life. It's tagline is "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language", and that hits the spot well. Apparently it's made by a former roboticist from NASA, a guy who's now doing this comic thing fulltime. I've much admiration for this dude. Check his comic out. It's a fun read.