I am a hopeless geek.

I was reading Slashdot last night, just before I went to bed. I saw an article where somebody took the pair of Sun E15k servers their company had just purchased and did a little modding so they were, well, cooler than stock. I had to share that with my coworkers, because I've always been of the opinion that for $1.3M our servers should do something really neat while they sit there and suck up electricity. Maybe, with luck, they'll let us do something similar (but I'm not holding my breath). Yes, yes, I'm a follower, but Dammit -- that's just Really Cool.

But wait, I have further proof that I am a hopeless geek! Please see the exhibit marked "B", also known as my overwhelming joy last night when I applied a full-blown SSL certificate to my web server so that I can encrypt various things for BPEN's users (for example, the web page for accessing e-mail). I must have blithered on about that in various places for an hour and a half (my apologies to everyone who had to tolerate it).

I need a logo for my web server's front page. Bleah.

I am a hopeless geek.

I was reading Slashdot last night, just before I went to bed. I saw an article where somebody took the pair of Sun E15k servers their company had just purchased and did a little modding so they were, well, cooler than stock. I had to share that with my coworkers, because I've always been of the opinion that for $1.3M our servers should do something really neat while they sit there and suck up electricity. Maybe, with luck, they'll let us do something similar (but I'm not holding my breath). Yes, yes, I'm a follower, but Dammit -- that's just Really Cool.

But wait, I have further proof that I am a hopeless geek! Please see the exhibit marked "B", also known as my overwhelming joy last night when I applied a full-blown SSL certificate to my web server so that I can encrypt various things for BPEN's users (for example, the web page for accessing e-mail). I must have blithered on about that in various places for an hour and a half (my apologies to everyone who had to tolerate it).

I need a logo for my web server's front page. Bleah.

Well isn't that just bloody great...

... the cat just puked in the bathroom, less than 15 minutes after I fed him. At least he puked in there as opposed to the carpet. I hope he's not starting a new trend... we'd done so well for so long.

Can I start today over, please?

Well isn't that just bloody great...

... the cat just puked in the bathroom, less than 15 minutes after I fed him. At least he puked in there as opposed to the carpet. I hope he's not starting a new trend... we'd done so well for so long.

Can I start today over, please?

In the words of Bill and/or Ted...

....

BOGUS!!!

See, I didn't have anything interesting planned out for tonight, so I figured I'd get the DVD player programmed up for my coworker before I brought it in to the office tomorrow. I'm being a nice guy and saving him the trouble of going through and unlocking the regions and removing Macrovision himself -- or at least that's what I was hoping to accomplish. I got everything ready, plopped the box on the floor and unpacked it only to find a scratch on the side of the unit. While the scratch didn't seem to be that worrisome, the big ass dent around the scratch was slightly more difficult to ignore. I'm sure that the unit is fine, assuming they put the board far enough away from that edge of the casing. That's not the point -- a unit that is supposed to be "brand new" had better be just that, or I better get one hell of a discount off the purchase price. I also don't think my coworker is really going to want to have a DVD player that's banged up from the get-go.

So tomorrow I get to take the unit back to Sam's Club, along with my receipt, and try to get an exchange accomplished. This should be an exercise in futility since this banged-up unit was the very last one they had in stock and they didn't evidence any plans to get another shipment.

Bleah redux.

In the words of Bill and/or Ted...

....

BOGUS!!!

See, I didn't have anything interesting planned out for tonight, so I figured I'd get the DVD player programmed up for my coworker before I brought it in to the office tomorrow. I'm being a nice guy and saving him the trouble of going through and unlocking the regions and removing Macrovision himself -- or at least that's what I was hoping to accomplish. I got everything ready, plopped the box on the floor and unpacked it only to find a scratch on the side of the unit. While the scratch didn't seem to be that worrisome, the big ass dent around the scratch was slightly more difficult to ignore. I'm sure that the unit is fine, assuming they put the board far enough away from that edge of the casing. That's not the point -- a unit that is supposed to be "brand new" had better be just that, or I better get one hell of a discount off the purchase price. I also don't think my coworker is really going to want to have a DVD player that's banged up from the get-go.

So tomorrow I get to take the unit back to Sam's Club, along with my receipt, and try to get an exchange accomplished. This should be an exercise in futility since this banged-up unit was the very last one they had in stock and they didn't evidence any plans to get another shipment.

Bleah redux.