23. December, 2003 - moving day - posted early
- Sculptor Invents Catapult Toy, but has trouble selling them because you have to think to pult the foam cats around. You can buy them from the Explorartorium or other museum stores. Wish I’d known about that a little earlier. Someone would’ve gotten one for Christmas.
- DVD-Jon wins new legal victory getting an acquittal on all counts of alleged copyright violations for writing DeCSS.
- Novell Registers UNIX System V Copyrights, as has SCO. But SCO’s sending out a copyright violation letter to people using Linux, claiming that header files (like errno.h) are being used in violation of their copyright. Looks like this one will head to the courts to decide whether Novell or SCO has the copyright first.
- Can Spam? Or New Can of Worms? Just a little more than a week until the new law goes into effect. It won’t stop all unsolicited commercial email, and it negates better laws already in effect in California and Virginia. But hey, I’m seeing a ton of spam again, so I’m hopeful the law will mean I don’t have to spend a weekend updating my filters, and can fix something on the house instead. Not bloody likely, but a guy can dream, can’t he?
- It’s Monday afternoon as I write this. I’ve gotten everything on my list for the day done except packing up the computers, and a little more, even. But let me tell you, I’ve been going through Swiffer sheets like a madman. Every time I’ve exposed some floor that’s been hidden behind or under something for years, I’ve found a family of dust-bunnies, and usually a few hairballs, too. If I weren’t basically a slob, it would disgust me, but as it is, it just makes me sneeze. Thus the swiffers. They grab that dust and don’t throw too much of it back in the air, which is just about perfect at this point, even if the damned little kleenexes cost something like a quarter a pop.
- It’s Monday evening, and one thing I’ve noticed about my to-do list was that I tended to break things into smaller bites as I got closer to the end of the move. Except for what turned out to be the biggest item of all – packing the computer. That single item ended up being all of this evening, and even so, I haven’t torn down the network yet. And I’m completely exhausted. I think there’s a much bigger psychological component to tearing down the computer than I thought. I knew that it would be a big deal, since it means that I’m done working until I get my office set up in the new house (after figuring out where it’s going to go, which is still something I haven’t worked out). And while it was a lot of work, the mental toll was higher than I expected. While I’ve known that I’m moving, tonight as I shut down the computer for the first time in months, I felt that I was moving. And in just ten hours, the movers are going to show up, and a few hours after that, this place will be pretty bare. There will be a few things left behind, but they’ll mostly be empty boxes destined for the recycling bin, or old computers I don’t feel like moving. I’ll be living somewhere else.
Wow.
Hopefully I’ll be able to post again on Christmas Eve. Seeya then.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:41:46.