Halo 3 day, Library WiFi

So it seems like today is the long awaited day that Halo 3 is released, not that I was waiting for it, thank goodness, but this video is really funny.

I went to the library this morning and overheard that now there is free WiFi there, about time. This is great!

Flat day in the stock market, darn I got tripped out of my GOL with the stop loss I had yesterday, wouldn't you know it, stock goes up 6% today. AAPL is also finally doing gret for me, those extra shares are now working for me.

NYTimes free, couchsurfing, CentOS

This morning, I get a Skype from LJ telling me that the market is good for a change to balance out the Skypes that I had done to him back when the market was down. So he mentions that the NYtimes is now free, I go on the site and find out about CouchSurfing, a pretty neat site about how to get around the world by exchanging your couch for someone else's, but it goes way beyond just housing.

CentOS keeps driving me nuts, things that are easy on Ubuntu aren't there. I am sure it is my inexperience with it.

Bus from London To Sidney

I am blogging this because it is a goofy idea, but you can take a bus ride from London to Sydney, yea, that is a 3 month bus trip, it isn't cheap either, much cheaper and faster to fly, but what a trip that would be, 22 countries.

Two days of an up stock market after the rate cut, great, I was starting to get used to the down down down we had been having.

Nerd Sitcoms

I tend to read the WSJ regularly, this morning they had an article about the Fall Schedule, networks are trying hard to get us to watch their shows over the winter. CBS has "The Big Bang Theory," a nerd sitcom, on Monday's comedy block, NBC has Chuck saving the world at $11 an hour, seemingly inspired by the Geek Squad, at 8PM starting 24th. Interesting.

This morning I went to ProStaff, after Charles got me to pick him up from the Hacienda Hotel, after taking the airport shuttle. I am surprised at how much time he gave himself before getting to work. Especially on the first day without being able to get in early.

Play.blogger

This morning I was convinced by JJ to go to the beach, finally away from the computer. Of course as soon as I got home I looked up the rather strange post on LiLAX.net

I really do hate to blog about the tool I am using, but these guys really have a hit as far as I am concerned I am putting more epics on my blog. Not sure why I clicked on epics when pics was underlined in red by my FireFox2, which keeps me from looking like an ignorant idiot by fixing my spelling. Funny I mispelled the word idoit, maybe I will let the red underlines stay, who knows might get a whole new demographic googling me.

Anyhow if you didn't try it already, Play Blogger is pretty cool. I will perhaps use it when I am on hold on the phone or bored. I stopped on Valle de Bravo, a new cellphone(hmmm, maybe I should take a pic of my phone and post it, after all I need to sell 256 GrandStream phones, if you liked my 5 free ways to get a phone number, might I suggest a BudgeTone for your home?), I had too look at the kid peeing on the soldier, pic folio, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος: Fiesta Del Mare..., I wish I had more time, but JJ is dragging me out again, lunch time. It is so hard to find time to write and even tougher to write something someone would like to read. I don't get comments yet, I am obviously not reaching anyone yet. Of course there is the question as to who I might reach, who would digg me? Maybe I am one of those who should only read.

ssh not logged out

So I am not sure why I am blogging this, but got a little frustrated looking for how to logout a dead ssh connection on CentOS5. Most OSs that I used timed out, but this one is up to 2 days and still logged in, strange. I wish I could get a funny cartoon from Alberto to go with all these stories, that would really increase readership. Anyhow I ended up doing a ps axjf then found the sshd: root@pts/0 process and killed that PID. Works, didn't have to reboot, after all it is all about uptime.

So going to pull a late night, figuring out why the CGI don't work, grrrr... I have another server that has it working for NetTracker, got to figure that one out still.

Loose Ends

So it is time to tie all the loose ends before I got job hunting. I am not Warren Buffet and it is time I get some better income, want to buy a house. So I am working through all the cards I picked up at the IT Expo and getting ready to do the eBay thing, need to clear the decks. Should probably finish the 5 books I am reading, while I get my callbacks.

Meanwhile Alberto has been at it again, he is also excited about the possibility of making money on ads on his site, big difference is that since he is more artistic, I feel he will actually make money, people like cartoons.