phoenix-network

Personal

I’m heading to Denver for the weekend and I’m pretty excited for it. I’m there for a wedding, but I’ll also be going out to the clubs when I’m there. Anyone know of anything I should do when I’m down there?

Work

Work is, well, work. I have met some cool people that make the night go by faster (well, at least not as boring). Maybe I can get something together where we can all chill one night/weekend not at work.

School

I don’t have many classes, but things are still getting crazy. With my cisco class, I’m finding it hard to remember to take the damned test (they are online and we take them when convient). I typically remember Sunday afternoon (they run from Monday to Sunday until around 11).

Projects

I’ve been working with django for the registration site. I have a long ways to go, but I hope to get most of it done in the car ride this weekend. I could probably crank this out in php, but I really want to get better with django/python (they just released a new version of python, version 2.6).

The Cutbird store launch went off without much of a hitch. I had to re-code some of the fex-ex scripts to automate shipping and the like.

Link it up: http://cutbird.com

I finally got gentoo installed and working on the MTNW server. I had a problem with the networking card and instead of compiling the kernel like I wanted to, I did the genkernel route. The only problem I had there was the correct module for my nic wasn’t added at boot so I got to figure out how to get that loaded.

Well, I finally did it, I finally hand installed gentoo and got X working. I also put Sabayon on my laptop and I am very pleased with it as well. I’d have to say, I’m going with gentoo for my next server for sure.

I just found VirtualBox. It’s an easy install and seems to work great. I dare say it works better than VMWare. The only downside, is it doesn’t have bridged networking, but it seems like you can directly use a nic on the host system wich is pretty cool.

I’ve started using a rails app called Django. I’ve fallen in love with it. It’s not only python, but it is very easy to set up the database, views, and program all the data handling structrues. I’d definatly suggest it.

With recent news of Phorm and the new act passed into law recently, I fear for my privacy. I would much rather do all communications through an encrypted channel. I do not need someone watching what I say and what I do for any reason. I try to use PGP/GPG (http://gnupg.org/ windows: http://gpg4win.org/) and something like firegpg to easily encrpyt emails through gmail (http://getfiregpg.org/). I will be looking for something in the next few days to try and encrypt phone conversations.

I made up this logo tonight, I just have to figure out how I want to integrate it in the site.

I’ve started really looking at programming with Python. It seems like a very versitile language. I want to write an application, but for any gui work, it just seems easier to drag-and-drop with something like visual basic than to program each window and element individually. I am kind of disappointed that the module curses doesn’t work quite right with my installation.