Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted (just over a month I guess). Work has been challenging. I still need to put the finishing touches on my project dealing with our task management software, namely finish writing up a doc or two clarifying some usage elements.
I’m in the thick of another project relating to email. We use squirrelmail for webmail at work and I’ve got the lovely task of upgrading it to a current version (= one we can actually find compatible plugins for and actually supports sessions without hacks). As part of the upgrade we’re moving this application to its own load-balanced pair of servers, which should greatly help performance. One of the changes we made to make load-balancing easier was to move preferences and addressbooks to LDAP. I didn’t think this would be as much work as it has turned out to be. I’ve probably spent a total of 25-30 hours on the addressbook conversion alone. There will be more work on this project this weekend, since other staff have the responsibility of getting me a second server and getting load-balancing working.
On the home front, Liz is definitely starting to look pregnant. 
This makes me happy. It’s hard to describe the sort of happiness that this part of our lives brings to me. She’s really looking forward to seeing me hold our child (we aren’t going to find out gender ahead of time). She claims I like to hold the Peaches in my arm to practice. Maybe that’s true.
A few weeks ago I got to give the gig NIC in the MythTV box a workout and transferred some video to my G5 for editing. I managed somewhere around 330 Mbps. W00t! And that’s using Cat5e cable. Though I don’t expect using Cat6 would offer much improvement, since I’m probably approaching the limits of what the disks will do. This does mean I’ll probably end up doing network jacks with Cat5e rather than Cat6. Not sure when I’ll start that, but I expect to do it before the baby arrives since it’s been recommended that we put a TV jack in the nursery and I’d like to put in a network jack at the same time.
Well, I think it’s time for bed. This post was brought to you by an army of millipedes and the letter Zzzzzzzzzzzz…….
