Katie says its cold

It's Julie Kim's birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday Julie Kim!!!!! w00p w00p!!!

Katie approves of the exciting MovableType website engine. Yes.

Homework

"The persistent belief that opponents of war should not study national security is like trying to find a cure for cancer by refusing to study medicine while allowing research on the disease to be conducted solely by tobacco companies."
Stephen Walt, The Renaissance of Security Studies

Experiments in Ethernet technology

I got a cheap CompUSA PCI Ethernet card for the potential server. Unfortunately, there is some kind of hellish problem which prevents the card from getting an IRQ number correctly. This is not my area of expertise and it is God damned annoying. I've got 14 days to get it working, before the card would have to be returned. It seems to be an issue with BIOS settings, a problem particularly since the BIOS is 8 years old. I may have to get a BIOS upgrade or something. Perhaps what I need is a PC guru...

Internet fritzing again

It seems that Comcast Internet access throughout the neighborhood has been made quite flaky by the snowstorms last night. Andy over at Shadow Falls tells us that theirs is messed up too. (still flurries coming down) The Internet keeps coming up and down. Damn, this is annoying!!!!

Water heater kaboom

Something has gone wrong with our water heater this morning. Alison took a very cold shower. It's leaking in the basement, which has been very cold lately. The heater is extremely old, from about 1986 if I recall. Water heaters have a lifespan of about 10 years, and the upstairs neighbors' heater just died a couple weeks ago. So much for a hot shower before the Super Bowl. >:-(