Axodys

I’m hoping to get my pictures from my Washington DC trip up in by the weekend as well as finally implementing the long needed site redesign. I’m feeling reasonably motivated at the moment so we’ll see what happens.

I ended up spending far too much time at work figuring out what was wrong with a printer that has been leaving a vertical stripe of junk on every page. The bottom line was that it needed to be serviced and I should have just left it at that. I did find this link after the fact clearly describing what I had already ascertained by partially disassembling the printer. I think sometimes I get a little bit too clever for my own good and try to do everything myself. Live and learn.

The high school basketball summer league season is fully underway as of yesterday, so my evening are going to be a little bit busier through July. I love helping out with my dad’s teams though and with the players we have coming back expect this year to be a highly successful one .

This is not me, although I find it strangely amusing to see that someone sharing my first and last name is studying to be a software engineer.

Interesting news on the Python front. Looks like Guido van Rossum is going to be devoting a lot more time to developing Python.

I’m still not completely readjusted to Pacific time as I’m feeling pretty sleepy and it’s only 10:23. It is a remarkably rainy night though, which is cool in my book and perhaps a good reason to turn in a little early, crack the window beside my bed, and enjoy the pitter patter of raindrops falling outside.

Ugh. My body still feels like it’s after midnight. Time for bed.

Ars Technica has a great in-depth look at MacOS X DP4.

I’m back! Of course the original things that I had started to post earlier got trashed when I tried to find that one last link to add to my content and went to a page that hosed IE5. Not cool, but thankfully I didn’t lose too much.

The trip to Washington DC was great. It was my second time in the last nine months and having some previous experience made it that much more enjoyable.

Yesterday Mary and I decided to spend our last day in DC visiting Arlington Cemetery, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Kennedy Center. What we didn’t realize at the time was that we would be walking into the heart of Rolling Thunder, the parade featuring thousands of motorcycles in the culminating event of the annual Ride For the Wall. It was without a doubt the loudest and most impressive parade I’ve ever seen.

Sheesh! The police haven’t completely left yet. About a half hour or so ago some girl and guy decided to get into a very loud, obnoxious, and most likely drunken fight out in front of my apartment building. This was especially annoying since the courtyard completely amplifies any reasonably loud conversation; this was beyond loud and reasonable. Thankfully someone in the building finally called the police and not just one, but four of Spokane’s finest burst onto the scene in their patrol cars (guess it was a slow night). That quieted things down quite a bit, save for occasional radio chatter; at this point there are still a couple police cars on scene.

I should really get to packing. Based on the weather reports for Washington DC it looks like I can expect to wear shorts and my hooded windbreaker for the majority of the time.

Biking in the City is a weblog focusing on alternative transportation. As soon as I get back from Washington DC I’m planning to start biking to work again myself. It’s only a 15 minute ride from my apartment and a good portion of that ride is on the Centennial Trail along the Spokane River.

Today is officially Axodys DSL day in celebration of my return to high speed connectivity. Hopefully Damien is having good luck getting setup today as well. Back in August of 1998 when I first signed up with USWest for DSL I also took a day off from work just so that I could be at home when UPS delivered my Cisco 675. I didn’t actually have to do any real configuration at the time, I just plugged it into the wall, set TCP/IP to DHCP and magically I was online. Actually, now that I think about it, I originally received a Netspeed Speedrunner and later had that upgraded to the Cisco 675 model. Externally the two modems were identical because Cisco bought out Netspeed in April of 1998.

Here’s a nice listing of DSL related sites and also one with some specific Cisco 675 configuration information.