My ip changed again. This is happening more and more often, and it’s starting to piss me off. The only way to get a static IP from my ISP (RoadRunner) is to sign up as a business customer, which costs about 3 times as much with no other change in service level.
Month: November 2004
Wish me luck…
Ok, I’ve got my Fedora Core 3 CDs and I’ve studied my blog entries from the last time I did an upgrade, and I’ve made a checklist of everything that I can remember that I do with the box. It looks like this weekend is upgrade time.
Ok, 1, 2, 3, “By all means, Paul, fuck with the hard drives”
Software patents are evil, and I have one!
United States Patent: 6,812,994
6 named inventors. My boss, his boss, the head of the whole department, the guy from Corporate Design and Usability who we had to fight with over the gui design, the other coder who did the main shell of the gui, and me, the guy who did all the fun stuff – database design and implementation, custom widgets, support programs, etc.
I feel both proud and unclean.
My car, again.
As I wrote about in My car, the mother, my car recently required a huge amount of service because it was leaking oil. Well, it’s been about 1500 miles since then, and last night after 5 hours on the highway, I got a “oil pressure” warning light when turning at a traffic light. Oh oh. This morning it was making that clattering noise again. Oh oh. I bought some oil, and threw in two quarts. Then I changed, and it was still showing a quart down, so I threw in another. Un-fucking-believeable – they supposedly *fixed* the oil leak, and it went through 3 quarts in 500 miles?
Even my VW Beetle wasn’t that bad when it had over 150,000 miles on it.
From the “Better to be down here wishing you were up there” department…
I was supposed to fly to Ottawa this weekend. I had my favourite plane booked and everything.
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