New Modem

I wrote a little bit ago about my writing a little service monitor script, OpenServerMon, yes, I know the name has changed already. Well, the reason I wrote the script initially is I wanted to be notified when my home internet service went down. Wouldn’t you know it, it worked…. A LOT! Apparently, I put […]

Happy fuzzies

There is nothing like having happy fuzzies.

Ferret Math

Ferret math is a curious mathematical oddity whereby one ferret mysteriously becomes many. It can happen a million different ways, but almost certainly it will happen to most ferret owners. This is how it happened to me just this past weekend. When last I wrote, my friend Benny had to be put to sleep. They […]

RIP Benny

The bad part of being a pet owner is that, in eventuality, you have to deal with the death of a friend. Today I had to put my friend Benny to sleep. He had been quite ill much of his life with some undiagnosed illness and mass in his lung, not to mention his heart […]

An interesting project perhaps?

The posts today are flying from my fingers! I guess watching Kitchen Nightmares has somehow gotten my brain and fingers working in conjunction with one another… I mentioned that with my router troubles I had taken some pleasure in watching the people in my neighborhood connect to my unconnected router because it was unprotected and […]

OpenNetMon

I just mentioned how my internet connection went down in the middle of the night. Of course I don’t check my network when I get up in the morning until I get to work and try and get access to my email. At that point, if it’s something I can’t walk my wife through, I […]

How to ruin an uptime

I had this old Belkin wireless router at home, and I knew it was on the way out for some time now. The symptoms were it would occasionally just stop allowing any new connections. A couple weeks ago I purchased a nice little Netgear wireless router to replace it with, but as luck would have […]

Politics – The Lone Dissenter

I don’t oftenshare my political or religious views here. I save those for other sites, but this is of particular importance to me as a Christian and a parent. I would like those of you considering voting for Obama this election to hear this one fact and plea. As a Christian and a parent I […]