Wow, one year, that's not toooo long between posts! Heh. So, boy do we have some interesting news to report.

1. I've done some randomly useful things for gnome/linux/et al over the past year. Mostly a lot of running around in 'hands flailing above head' position to please the gods. Besides that, some tinkering here and there.

2. We're still trying to get a LUG going in the Missoula area. So many folks are interested, it's nailing down a good meeting time/space that's hard. We're aiming for a room in one of the univ. halls w/network access.

3. The 'darnedest' thing happened to me this week. Jonallen.org, or I should say, the former jonallen.org, became an *cough* adult *cough* site with absolutely no effort on my part! Short story: I was busy, let the domain name expire, scumbag fsck'ing loser registers it, and boom! adult pr0n starts for your enjoyment. I'm serious, don't bother checking. Now get this, it gets better. I'm not exactly a wee lad anymore but I'm not exactly old either. So who happens to call me this evening to tell me about this fine achievement of internet intelligence? That's right, you guessed it, my Mother. Mother! !@#%#$@! So, a quick check to make sure no one was smoking crack and a ping to the whois record confirmed the woesome state of jonallen.org. Wtf. That site barely got any traffic, I can't imagine it's useful... So, today's lesson is: If it's important to you, renew your domain name registrations in a timely manner. Otherwise you never know who just might call . Anyway, randomgeek.org is now registered and will soon contain many gems of wisdom for your digestion.

4. Ever try to tar up something and write the tar file to the beginning of your / filesystem? No? Are you smirking yet? Well, I did that last week. To a client box the day it was supposed to ship out. *After* my comrade finished setting up the modem for dialin access and was ready to box it up... what a hoot was had by all. It's fun to watch that happen. I've deemed that my "Royal Mistake For The Year 2002" and hopefully I won't have any runners up.

Enough about me, what's new with you?