Well, got some good responses so far to my article, and hopefully something good will come of it. The more I play with this stuff, the more I like it.
xvl
Still can't get xvl to work for me. Solved one problem by
hardcoding the directory and now it's got a memory
allocation problem or something.
wiki
Decided to try installing a wiki. Nothing was packaged for
Debian (huh?) with the exception of zope-wiki which is far
overkill, so I grabbed the PHPWiki snapshot tarball and
after some mysql wrangling (wrong table names), it
installed like a charm. rybolov's usually
the mysql/php guy but I can handle it enough to at least
figure stuff out and make it work. PHPwiki is very nice,
much prettier by default than other wikis...
life
With more of my friends (naturedarren,
Kyrgan) joining, I might just find the
discipline to diary more often... we'll see.
Life has
been so busy lately, it's nice to be taking it easier.
Leaving a job and entering the marketplace isn't fun,
but so far so good. Ask me again in a few months.
community
Our local Linux user group, EUGLUG has been wrestling
with finding new places to meet having both outgrown the
old and business changes where we meeting. After weighing
all the options, I decided a hiatus for the summer makes
the most sense. Meeting every week on Thursdays and once a
month on Saturdays has taken its toll, and a break is a
good thing, so we can coordinate something with the other
Oregon LUGs as well as find new digs. It was pretty funny
how many regulars reacted to the news with "Well, now what
will I do with my Thursday nights?" Still haven't posted
the news to the mailing list, I'll go do that.
tivo
Tivoed: too many to count - with my new 60 gig HD
addition, the number of movies waiting to be watched is
just perfect, I can pick and choose from about 7 or 8 at
once...plus all of the good shows I season pass, both new
shows and good stuff i missed the first time round.
At the moment: Pups - spoiled kids rob a bank. Thumbs down.
looking forward to
Jay and Silent Bob - Kevin Smith is a god.
Annual fireworks party at my place