And baby makes 4
Zoe arrived today at around 12:30 p.m.
Here’s a basic page to look at about Zoe. I’ll have the gallery up soon (it wasn’t working for some reason), but there is a list of pictures up from a link on that page.
General
Happy Birthday Alex!
My son turns 8 today. How time flies.
At least the baby isn’t being born on his birthday today. 
Which reminds me, I need to get her webpage set up so I can upload pictures and stuff.
Back in the saddle
Back home after traveling 2 out of the last 3 weeks. And the last 3 weekends in a row.
Florida was nice. 80 every day. I could get used to that.
Messed around with Netjuke a bit last night to see if I could get downloading to finally worked. Installed gzip on Apache. The good news, you can now d/l one file at a time. The bad news, you can’t d/l more than one file at a time.
Looking at the gzip log files, it appeared to be an Internet Explorer thing (ha, there’s a surprise). IE 5.5 doesn’t read gzip encoded web pages right, nice bug. The pages are loading a lot faster though in IE and Mozilla, so a part of it is working right.
But in Mozilla, I couldn’t d/l multiple files either, so I think I need to play with my Apache configuration. (Ugh).
So I’ll add that to my to-do list, which keeps growing. And growing. And growing.
Misc. Updates
Still trying to get IcculusNews to work for the frontpage of Silwenae.net… Kelly helped take a look at it, but we need to look at it again so I can mail the email list to see if the problem with the daemon can be fixed.
I’m going to try to install IcculusFinger this weekend, it’s better documented, so we’ll see what happens.
If you use my music site, the new Quintessential 4.02 didn’t stream Ogg correctly. I worked with the developer, and the new Ogg input plugin fixes the bug for streaming Ogg. Get it here. Just a self-extracting exe file that will update Quintessential for you.
Set up a blog here for Alex (as you can see at the top of the page). Now I have to show him how to use it. It will be interesting to see how fast a 7 year old picks it up.
I was thinking about that, and when I got my first computer. (We had a Timex Sinclair – 2 of ’em eventually). I think I was about 7 or 8 when we first picked that up. I remember getting computer magazines and coding machine language by hand to play Breakout. (Which probably explains my addiction to lbreakout2 on Linux). 
I did purchase an original Timex Sinclair off Ebay last year along with an Apple //c and monitor. Gotta get that basement finished so I can set up my mini-museum of computers I used growing up. Just have to find a 286 at some point as well. And maybe a P100 at some point (had a Packard Bell once we could afford a computer, and that upgrade cycle with it started all of my learning…)
Work in Progress
I’m updating silwenae.net, I’ve come to a compromise with myself.
I’m going to keep the blog software, but not as the homepage.
The homepage is in the process of getting updated with IcculusNews. Which has no documentation. It’s a series of PHP pages that calls a Perl daemon. It’s fun hacking at it even if I don’t know what I’m doing.
Thank god Kelly had Perl last semester.
I’m going to install IcculusFinger as well, and when I’ve got this all working, if anyone wants webspace / blog / finger ability, I’ll be more than happy to share.
Better
The new beta of the blog software works better as they’ve de-emphasized the multi-blog feature and made it easier to tweak.
Upgrade I did last night looks pretty good, I’ll keep it for now.
I did d/l IcculusNews and IcculusFinger. Icculus wasn’t kidding when he said it was lacking in documentation. It’s all Perl, couple daemons that run. I’m going to look into it as I’m still intrigued by it, but we’ll see in the long run.
Grrr
I’m kind of frustrated with b2evolution (the software package running this blog).
In the .8 release, they added the functionality to do multiple blogs on one site. This broke my site fairly badly, and the documentation is lacking – but I don’t have a problem with that. This is beta software on top of a base package someone else created.
I did post a help post on their forums and got zero responses, even after searching before I posted.
.83 beta was just released, so I’ll try that. But if it doesn’t work, I’m seriously considering a very basic site running IcculusNews and IcculusFinger from Icculus.org.
Just don’t know if port 263 is open… otherwise I meet all the requirements, and having a web page that looks and feels like the old web appeals to me…
Phoenix
Just got back from a business trip in Phoenix.
Holy crap is it hot.
Hit the road at 6:30 a.m. and it’s already 90 degrees.
Heard on the news that the old record of 6 days in the year where it didn’t drop below 90 was shattered this year – 15 days total.
I need to go back in Dec / Jan when it’s cold here and warm there.
But the resort we stayed at was extremely nice – off-peak in season it was quite cheap.