September 24, 2003
Update. My car is still in the shop. I'm hoping they'll get around to looking at it soon. As you might imagine, not having my car working has not been an encouragement in the job hunting department. I've been reluctant to borrow my mother's car although that certainly is an option--when she's not using it that is.

Well, what's more interesting then that my car is still in the shop is that I now have a convenient part-time job. A bit ago, I decide that I should be imployed in some manner whilst hunting for the evasive engineering job. Now I'm sweeping out trailers for Southern Freight that are waiting to be loaded at the local commercial bakery. Though not a huge money-maker, it's a nice outside job that is extremely flexible as far as hours go and no-one is looking over my shoulder to see how I'm doing. It's nice to be trusted to do your job.

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September 17, 2003
The past couple of weeks when reading friendly content, I've wanted to write something here. The problem is that I haven't felt like I had anything I really wanted to share. Perhaps I'm just not wanting to throw out whatever for the general public to see. I'm not particularly interested in telling all about how my job hunting is going. If I talked to one of you personally, I'm tell more, but just what would depend on who you are. To most people I'd probably be content to relate the final outcome.

So, on to a light topic. My car--well, I took it to the mechanic yesterday. The hows of that experience make a story themselves, but I'm not wanting to go into it presently. Maybe later (although those later things usually get swept under the rug never to be heard from again). Anyway, I got a call today--my oil pressure was 2 lbs. instead of the usual 70 or 80 psi. So now they'll be pulling the oil pan off and checking bearings, oil intake tube, etc. It will certainly be more expensive than I would prefer, but no doubt much less expensive than making new car payments. :-)

Today I managed to copy over my /boot/apps directory with default one. Moral of the story: keep separation between default system data and data that's been installed separately (even applications (which should remain separated from personal data)). It wasn't actually that catastrophic, i.e., it wasn't like I couldn't reinstall stuff--I did have the original zip or pkg files for most of the stuff I actually use regularly. One good thing was that my previously broken ncurses (that was a mess) was cleanly swept away and now a have the latest version working fine (although gcc seems to know nothing about /boot/home/config/include which I would like to fix at some point so I don't have to add things like -I/boot/home/config/include (as well as -L/boot/home/config/lib)). Also interesting is that openssl now seems to install without problem, although I haven't used it yet. Anyone who as a brilliant idea about what I can do fix the gcc thing would be most welcome to enlighten me on the subject. On a sort-of related note, I've not yet figured out how to tell gcc to link a library dynamically instead of statically.

Posting some comment of Yanthor's green color scheme seems to be in voge these days although I think I'll comment here rather than there since I'm writing this now and am badly in need of some new stuff around here. I was rather surprised--not because he changed the color, but because I didn't expect green. I think it looks nice, and certainly it is unusual.

I read recently a quote from Isaac Newton to the effect that he was writing a long letter to his friend because he didn't have time to write a short one. So rather than rambling on and on here, I could carefully craft a concise document susenctly presenting what I want to convey. Really though, my webpage doesn't currently hold that kind of priority.

Hm, maybe I'll compile the latest ssh against my new openssl. That certainly isn't as easy as it sounds (at least last time I tried, the attempt failed miserably (I think it was openssl that wouldn't compile).

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June 15, 2003
Having traced down the annoying bug that keep my link function from running more than once, I now know that php does not support nested functions, at least not without some sort of special syntax to keep it from attempting to redefine the inner function every time the outer function is called. I'm guessing Yanthor would know some interesting stuff about this.

Okay, enough of that. Now on to the description of new features. Perhaps you were wondering how many pages would show up as links at the top of this page. Well, previously, there was no limit, which would look really tacky long before I wrote a thousand entries. I'm certainly in no danger of have that many any time soon, but now I have gotten around to limiting the number of links desplayed. It was a rather easy modification except for the annoying behavior mentioned above. I can't say that php is my favorite language, but it's interesting to play with at least.

It really is entirely too late, so I think I will call this good and be done for now.

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