New washer/dryer, server downtime, proxy
News ·Thursday April 20, 2006 @ 11:46 EDT (link)
We bought a washer/dryer today, a set of white Kenmore Elite HE4s from Sears. They've gotten good reviews from Consumer Reports (Kenmore took the top three places, in fact), and the former owners of the house had a (graphite) set. We also picked up a Black and Decker Grass Hog.
Small (web-only) server downtime today due to Gentoo upgrades being slightly bonkers, but I pulled in some new Apache packages and all is well.
I've set up an IRC proxy, ctrlproxy; I've been meaning to for a while; it stays connected even when I need to disconnect (lets me stay opped and keep my nick) and multiple machines can connect to it, which means seamless switching between machines and not having multiple logged in accounts. I'm using the latest branch from bzr (yet another revision control system, and a pretty crappy one from what I've seen); there were several crashes at first; I debugged some of them and sent fixes to the author.
It's been raining most of the week; high time to finish cutting the lawn!
Happy birthday to my sister Emily.
