loneliness (n):

That feeling you get when you haven’t received any email from *any* mailing lists in hours, and have to check to make sure your mail server is actually working…

… and it is.  You’ve just tweaked the hell out of the spam filtering so that you really do only get 99.9% real emails.

Now if only I could get that sort of motivation about SNMP setup.  My switch does it; I’ve got it set.  I just don’t have a collector ready or anything to, well, *do* anything with the data.

Ray Beckerman, one of the few lawyers in the US who seems to be actually aware of and against the RIAA legal farces lately (my opinion), is now under attack personally for his out-of-court blog, here.

It seems a bizarre twist, and anyone taking this article at face value will likely come away with the impression that they’re doing so merely to try and limit his use and scope in othere, or future cases.

Bra-VO, RIAA.  Someone there has balls.  Giant, bronze-painted, inflatable ones.

So, I have sadly descended into watch collecting.  Sorta.  I have, I believe, 6 watches now, 4 of which I’ve bought recently.  Some homages to more expensive watches, a normal citizen, a diver (PVD, so all black).

It’s somewhat beguiling.  The best ones are always (financially) out of reach, but wow do you want them.

We got an ant farm.

They died.

Almost all in shipping.  Sent away for the package of ants, $5 money order, and a plastic tube arrives weeks later.  3 ants came out.  The rest, were pulp.  Seriously, ant goop on the sides of the tube.  The other two died after that, the last I nursed to health with sugar, but he just died overnight as well.  Le sigh.  I think I’m digging up anthills, soon.