I didn’t get out much this week, ended up skipping PLUG on Wednesday when the weather got icy in my neck of the woods, and then Thursday I skipped movie plans with a friend after a tiring work day and need for an early start on Friday.
I did get some stuff done this week though. Finally managed to get down to Tailwind Bicycles to get a back tire for Nessy so I could use it on the trainer. They were very very helpful, showing me how to change the tire so I could do it myself next time, hurrah! Now I have it back home and all set up.
Yesterday I learned about tircd from Mike Greb. Back when I started using Twitter I used it with the official bot in bitlbee, so it all was great with my IRC-centric workflow. Then the twitterbot died and I’ve spent months fiddling with other clients, twhirl for a while, twitbin, then settling upon gwibber – until one of the dependencies broke in the PPA for hardy and made it unusable without snagging packages from Intrepid. So I was pretty excited when I learned I could get twitter back in IRC, so I installed it on r2b1 alongside Bitlbee, opened up the firewall to my server and connected my irc client to twit.cause.a.t.rainwreck.com (yes, there has to be a new subdomain for every service I run) and now I have tweets in IRC again.
I also rearranged my desk last night. I was getting tired of having the printer, test machine and firewall on the top of my desk taking up precious space. So I piled them all nicely on top of each other with my desktop and sparc and ran power and ethernet wires into my closet to power the printer which now lives in there. I still need another extension cord to get rid of that hanging power strip (nice huh?) but it’s much more workable than it was. The extra desk space is very nice.
And this weekend I’m hanging in. Working on some project stuff, hanging out with my kitties, chatting with a friend. It’s been snowy out today too, love snow, I think I’ll go make some hot chocolate.
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2009 at 16:04
I think your desk is superb… I wish I has a desk like that, I am using an old kitchen table and a swivel chaire with no back on it. Sigh ;-)
Have you thought about getting a rack of some sort to fit in the corner for your equipment?… one with four or five tiers?
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2009 at 23:46
The apartment I live in isn’t really friendly space-wise for any kind of rack. Plus I don’t want to admit that my personal computer collection is big enough to require it quite yet ;)
Monday, Jan 12th, 2009 at 7:08
And my work area is an Ikea dining table and a swivel chair with a back on it. ;)
Is that a Singer sewing machine (covered) behind the left speaker ? What’s the box marked “Indigo” on the left ?
Monday, Jan 12th, 2009 at 9:21
Yep, that’s a Singer sewing machine. I bought it a couple years ago, I’m no sewing master but I can make curtains and pillows :)
And the “box” next to my desk is an SGI Indigo2 server, I’ve stashed it in my apartment until I can give it to its new owner (hopefully tonight!)