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So I'm sitting here this evening, looking around and seeing a lot of things, realzing a few and generally being more stoic and reflective than normal. It's a bit interesting really, if I come up with any amazing revelations I'll let you all know ;-)

So since I last write I haven't done tooooo much, built a MythTV box, which went interestingly (messed up the config pretty bad on the first try which I din't realize for a while) For those of you who don't know what MythTV is, think of a TiVo only not in the pretty box, louder and I made it from spare parts around my apartment. Anyway I saw and enjoyed the Farscape: Peacekeeper wars mini-series, and for the record I'm very, very sad about the character that dies, I liked that character a lot! Ohhhh well not much that can be done about that now. Started to play a Mage / Vampires game with Gabe, Sean, Ben S., and a new gent named Oney on friday. Not much, played till 2am, and drove to IC from DM, not a short drive ;-). Had fun though, looking forward to the next run on that game. Beyond that I had a completely useless weekend, only thing I really did was start a small project, that I'll make Open Source in the not tooo distant future.

[GEEK ZONE] It's a DNS Updater script. Seeing as dns updates are now down to 5 minutes, I figure thats close enough for normal DNS to be treated with the ability to be dynamic. What it does is log into a pre-existing webmin instalation and figure out if the ip address of the configured box is different, if it is it updates the dns and (in theory) at most 5 minutes latter the dns is updated, if not it does nothing, and logs out. Right now it's at the point of logging in, find the the zone, the address and doing the comparison, no updates yet. Shouldn't take me long to finish it off, when I do I'll make a section for software here.

The whole reason I started on this is so I can run a VPN between my apartment and my parents house, as it will make life easier for everyone involved on both ends. I've asked nicely of my ISP, and they won't sell me a static IP unless I fork out 3x as much money for a 'business' connection. Go figure.[END GEEK ZONE]

So lets see what else, still single, insane, working my bloody tail off and recently declared by my office to be more British than American. Go figure, you read too much British literature, realize you actually enjoy reading Shakeaspeare and you watch too much British Comedy and suddenly people think your British ;-)

Dunno, there are some other things slowly getting planned, sounds like Pat, Sam and my godson Mark are going to come and camp out in my apartment with me sometime, trying to go see Karl around new years and Molly, my little sister, has invited me to come hang out with her when she goes to Canada (me thinks it's not a bad plan) so I'm trying to see if I can work all of that out :-)

Anyway, this tired little code monkey is going to hit the sack, ::yawns:: night