10 Dec 2001 (updated 10 Dec 2001 at 07:45 UTC)
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Well, here's my first entry on advogato. I ran across
the site during a google search, and noticed a few
people I know, so I thought I'd give it a try. Looks like
everyone else has been at this a while, sometimes I'm
really out of the loop.
I wanted to step to the plate swinging, so I also created
a project for my
PerlService which is a
useful little hack I put together but haven't publicly
released yet. Everyone I've showed it to has liked it
though, (provided they don't turn a deaf ear when the
word "Macintosh" is uttered), so now it's out for all to
enjoy.
Currently I'm battling an infestation of crickets, thanks to
a prank that someone pulled on the guy living upstairs.
Unfortunately crickets know no political boundaries,
and I've been atrributed to collateral damage.
I'm also battling a wretched latency to the outside world
thanks to some Windows machine in the network I'm
on. At first I thought it was a chatty NIC, but I've been
able to rule that out, it's just the wonderful world of
Win32.
If my entry seems a little frantic, it's probably
because I'm dealing with 3000ms latency between
ethernet packets, and 50ms latency between cricket
packets. Unfortunatley the underwhelming and
overwhelming performances don't interefere
destructively.