What have I been up to for the past week? Well, last weekend was spent up at my parents for Christmas on “my side” of the family. Yes, married now so I get to do the multi-Christmas. Not too bad though. I received some tops, including a new suede shirt and some Packers gear (go Pack!). While I was up there, I upgraded apache from version 2.0.55 to 2.2. That was fun, especially since I accidently wiped out my httpd.conf. This caused a couple of problems, notably it broke my virtual hosts. I figured this out and managed to get PHP re-installed. I also finally got mod_proxy working again (for accessing my mythtv web interface).
Monday, we drove up to Thunder Bay, Ontario to visit our friend Danni and spend a week relaxing. That was enjoyable. We went to see “The Family Stone”, which was more enjoyable than I expected and had a satisfactory ending. We even did some sledding, which I haven’t done in several years. I got a sore bum from that (still a bit sore). We came back on Friday to some kitties that were happy to see us. 
Yesterday was pretty slow. While Liz was having fun with church youth game & movie night, I monkeyed around with my router and loaded dd-wrt on it. After some tweaking I have it mostly working the way I want it. The notable feature I gained over the Alchemy firmware I was running before is that port forwarding is more flexible. Instead of being limited to forwarding port x on public interface to port x on machine z, I can forward port x on public interface to port y on machine z. I also caught up on some of the TV that had been recorded over the past two weeks, including the pilot episode of “A-Team”. I forgot how much fun that show is (lots of bullets, nobody gets killed). I am planning on archiving the A-Team episodes off onto DVD once I’m done doing the 3 Dance Theatre concerts that I have on VHS (1999-2001).
Tomorrow it’s back to the old grindstone. Work will be occupied with coordination of new computer installs and computer lab fixes. The computer lab stuff needs to be completed within the next two weeks so hopefully that doesn’t stress me too badly.
robert on January 8, 2006 in Uncategorized
