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Man, I wish I’d taken out the camera. We were out for a walk with the dogs on this spring-like January day when we came across a couple of Rottweilers running loose on our property. Fortunately, they were well-mannered enough that they ignored my mom (who fears large dogs, and who was carrying Grep) and me (carrying Icky, who was squirming and whining), and didn’t bother Sobe too much (on a leash with Paul). They even followed us back to the house while we put our dogs inside, and let us talk them onto the porch (cheese!) while Paul called the animal control guy. They only growled a little bit when the truck pulled up; they seemed more concerned that they stay together than about being taken away. At one point the female lost her collar entirely but just lay down waiting for it to be put back on. We joked with the guy (Gary Rose I think?) that we always seem to get the big dogs visiting (last time a huge black dog named Buddy that we found out later lived down the road).
In the unlikely event that you live in Palmyra, are reading this blog, and are missing a male (rather chubby) and female (thinner, looks as if she’s had a litter in the past) Rottie wearing training collars, make sure you get ahold of animal control (or possibly Wayne County Shelter). I sure hope they find their way home; they were really nice, friendly dogs. We felt a little guilty getting them captured, but I know if our dogs were out I’d rather they were someplace I could pick them up rather than out loose where they could get hurt.

Geeky women don’t get older, they just change base.

If you suck at math like I do Dr. Math can certainly help.

Couldn’t sleep tonight , so it’s server work time.

1. Wordpress 2.0
2. Apache 2.0.55+
3. Php 5.1.x
4. mediaWiki 1.5.6

Testing out the new tinymce editor that’s in wordpress also. Seems to be ok. I reinstalled the gallery2 plugins, and the image picker but they still don’t work with the rewrite rules. Oh well ;). At least it looks nice, and you can see what it’s going to look like when it’s done.

Another month, another Rochester Small Dog Playgroup event. Shenanigans were had by all. Icky got to meet another IG (Cello? I think it was) that was bigger than he is, and Grep got to sit in many laps.

“If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes” in this case a bit more then 5 minutes, but given a good mix of wind and large lakes, pretty cool things can happen ;).

60 degrees and party sunny -

23hrs and 36 degrees later -

I prefer the second picture ;p

Erica got me a wrap box for xmas. I’ll be using it as the primary firewall/router here. It’s been kinda fun playing with a smallish box again, even though it’s still a pretty large embded linux install. Anyway i’m logging my suffering/patches for my own amusement WRAPInstall .

I tried doing it all via netboot, but that doesn’t work so well since once you put a partition table on it, tinybios REALLY wants to boot from it ;). I’ll have to take a look at that some day. I tried using GNAP and the gentoo live cd catalyst stuff too. But it’s all too much work (whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa). Anyway buildroot is holding up so far, and it’s pretty easy to add/alter things to suit my evil plans.

Just getting the writing of the wrong year started out right ;).

Happy New Year