Entries in Life

I showed Alexis Ted Leung’s DaddyCon, to which her only response was “You should write about your children more. And I suppose she’s right.

In fact, I’ve not been writing much here (as compared with some more prolific points past) because I haven’t had much to write about. I’ve been working on adding updates to OpenWeblog (and hope to have coded available soon that others will find useful) looking for work. Of course, I have a lot more free time right now and I spend a lot of that time with my kids.

Unfortunately, they are too aware that this is not the normal set of circumstances. Basil, for instance, asks me several times a week “Have you got a job yet, Daddy?” I try to point out that as soon as I find work, I’m not going to have as much time to spend with him, but, ever the practical one, that doesn’t phase him.

Ok, so I don’t obsessively read my Apache logs, but today I noticed that when the Bloglines ‘bot comes by it leaves this tidbit in the User-Agent field:

  Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 4 subscribers)  

Yay! Four people cool enough to use Bloglines are subscribed to my feed!

Now you’ve got me wondering who you are and wondering who else reads my weblog. (Oooh! KooQoo is evidently similar to Bloglines but doesn’t give me the same egoboo that Bloglines does. All I see from them is:

  KooQoo: news-bot: 0.7.3  

And, let’s not forget all those nnrss users!

I’ve gotta implement comments and such. Then, I’ll start posting provocative stuff just to lure you guys into commenting!

Anticipation is a mixture of doubt and hope, sorrow and happiness. Anticipation keeps you up at night — giddy with joy and trembling with fear. Something big is about to happen. Change is coming.

I’ve been getting a little annoyed by the virus bounces in my email. Obviously, I lack friends, but right now those bounces outnumber actual email. I’m slowly adding rules to SpamAssassin to block them, but today, I decided to go see how SA is actually doing.

I discovered that I’m quite glad that I use SA. But, I’m even happier that I’m using ClamAV because, evidently, I get twice as many viruses as spam.