Monday, 30 December, 2002. 02:12:54 PMI made Gold membership status on American Airline's frequent flyer program.
Friday, 27 December, 2002. 03:17:31 PMI have DRI extensions working on my laptop now. The graphics chip is an ATI
Mobile Radeon, which is the same as a Mach64. Not too speedy, but for
OpenGL I wanted whatever acceleration I could get. I installed the Debian
packages that were available and it works now. The fire demo that comes
with Mesa runs at about 12 frames a second. I can't recall how fast it runs
on my desktop's NVidia mx400, but it's not nearly as fast.
Thursday, 26 December, 2002. 05:20:21 PMMy parents have been visiting since Saturday night, and they are leaving
tomorrow morning. It's been fun having them here, and I hate to see them go.
We went up to Saledo on Sunday. There's a lot of little shops there selling
upscale merchandise. Alex and I were looking at a clock in one store and
Mom bought it for us without us finding out. We got it on Christmas Eve and
it's on our mantle now. I gave Alex a robe and a 128 meg USB flash drive so
she can move files to and from her office. I'm also going to get her a
cooking class at Central Market. Maybe we'll do that together.
Friday, 20 December, 2002. 05:39:00 PMThese American companies helped Iraq develop their capabilities according to the Iraqi documentation of their weapons programs:
Key
A = nuclear weapon program
B = biological weapon program
C = chemical weapon program
R = rocket program
K = conventional weapons, military logistics, supplies at the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, and building of military plants
USA
1. Honeywell (R, K)
2. Spectra Physics (K)
3. Semetex (R)
4. TI Coating (A, K)
5. Unisys (A, K)
6. Sperry Corp. (R, K)
7. Tektronix (R, A)
8. Rockwell (K)
9. Leybold Vacuum Systems (A)
10. Finnigan-MAT-US (A)
11. Hewlett-Packard (A, R, K)
12. Dupont (A)
13. Eastman Kodak (R)
14. American Type Culture Collection (B)
15. Alcolac International (C)
16. Consarc (A)
17. Carl Zeiss - U.S (K)
18. Cerberus (LTD) (A)
19. Electronic Associates (R)
20. International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
21. Bechtel (K)
22. EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R)
23. Canberra Industries Inc. (A)
24. Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
Friday, 20 December, 2002. 01:51:42 PMI called SBC/Yahoo and ordered their DSL service. They have no notice of
disconnect yet, but once they get it my setup should be processed quickly.
Friday, 20 December, 2002. 02:51:13 AMI've confirmed that my DSL link is now down. My old 56k modem is hooked up to
my desktop now. Tomorrow I call to get the new line installed. That should
take about a week to complete, then I'll be back.
Friday, 20 December, 2002. 01:15:35 AMMy DSL connection just went down 2 minutes ago. I wonder if that's DirectTV
getting around to my request to disconnect? I hope so, because I'll call
SBC/Yahoo tomorrow and get hooked up again. I've got all my mail forwarded
and the web site redirected to a temporary page on Geocities.
Wednesday, 18 December, 2002. 10:53:14 AMI've set up my domain to forward all web requests to my Yahoo page, and
my mail is being sent to my Yahoo account. During the time that my DSL
is disconnected, I'll still be able to use my domain normally. Now, I've got
to cancel my DSL line so that SBC/Yahoo can hook up a new one.
Monday, 16 December, 2002. 05:33:16 PMThe DirectTV support line just has a recorded message and no way to contact
anyone to cancel service. The DSL service has to be cancelled in order for
another company to pick the service up. I think I'm going with SBC/Yahoo DSL,
which can give me the same service for $15 a month more money. It's the best
deal that I can find.
Monday, 16 December, 2002. 12:11:10 AMDirectTVDSL is going out of business. Too bad, their service was excellent,
and the price for a static IP was reasonable. I'm going to have to switch
to another provider, and will probably have to pay more for a static IP
address. And, I might have a couple days downtime while the switch is
made.
Wednesday, 11 December, 2002. 10:29:26 AMSomeone found my site by doing a search on the words "Boston Terrier Porn".
Now that's funny!
Wednesday, 11 December, 2002. 10:07:51 AMLast night I bought a table saw on Sears.com. Model #24820. I'm looking
forward to learning how to build all sorts of things.
Wednesday, 11 December, 2002. 12:42:31 AMLots of updates. I'm going to New York City for a couple days to kick of a
project for Lehman Brothers. Their dress code is something out of the 80's -
I've got to wear a tie. Oh well, at least most of the project will be done
in Austin, though the testing will be done in NYC in January. I'm looking
forward to spending more time there.
Last night I had a case of food poisoning. I can't figure out what got me
though. It might have been a pork chop, or it might have been a little
piece of fudge that someone brought to work. I was up all night in severe
distress, and today I felt like I had been beaten up in a dark alley. I'm
still not feeling so hot, but I haven't eaten anything today either.
I am trying to figure out how to proceed with my space combat game. I've got
a scripting language and virtual machine working quite well now, but
technology has changed in the past year. I might be going back to OpenGL
since graphics accelerators are better supported under Linux now.
Tuesday, 10 December, 2002. 06:56:40 AMThe DNS servers are finally back up. That means I'm getting mail, and my
website is back online.
Monday, 09 December, 2002. 08:47:07 PMThe nameservers for my domain have been down for about 18 hours now, and I
don't know when they will be back up. I think I'm going to move my
domain registration from mydomain.com to something else. The founder of
mydomain.com left the company about 2 weeks ago and it's already gone to
hell.
Thursday, 05 December, 2002. 05:08:57 PMThere's a new Babylon 5 oriented weblog up at
http://www.vorlonspace.org.
Thursday, 05 December, 2002. 11:30:03 AMColeman is now selling a backup generator that uses fuel cells and hydrogen.