Buffy Car Angel Tooth Office Blue Adapt
Posted: 20 July 2005 at 11:22:13
I'm finally stealing a few minutes from my packed-full life to log some data on my recent activities and stuff. Otherwise, it'll all just fade away into the netherworld or something.
A real office
One reason I've been so busy the last couple of weeks is that we've opened an office! That's right! Iodynamics now has an office in West Valley City.
We're renting some space in a building owned by my dad. There's plenty of room for everyone to work, we have a reasonably fast Internet connection, there is a lot of room to store hardware and work on machines.
Since we started settling in, Adam (our newest hire) brought in a spare microwave oven he wasn't using at home and, just yesterday, Stephen donated an old fridge!
Adam also recommended we get a disco ball.
We'll see.
The new home of Buffy and Angel
Two unique personalities seemingly eternally linked by their affection and playfulness, have taken root at our house.
Buffy and Angel, our new kittens, have quickly made themselves at home with our family. These young cats are only a couple months old, love to play and sneak around, and are nothing but adorable.
I'll try to get some pictures up.
Car update
Got my car back last week. It looks fantastic. I had to spray some WD-40 on the power-steering pump pulley because it was making a bird-like chirping sound that was loud enough to garner the attention of neighboring motorists on the road. I also had to switch a couple brackets they replaced in the wrong places, but otherwise, it's back to being the old Soob. I took the car back on Monday to get the foglights reinstalled too.
The only thing that still needs to be completed is a repair of the anti-lock brakes. The ABS light has been lit on the dash since I got it back and the body shop's mechanics haven't been able to figure it out. They want me to bring the car back and leave it for a day so they can take it to a dealer and get a diagnosis with their equipment. I'm hoping to do that on Friday.
Good news - Treo-Linux
Last week, I went to a PLUG meeting at which my good friend Derek gave a stunning presentation on Xen. While there, Stuart showed me his Targus USB bluetooth adapter and said that it worked fine with his Linux laptop (he has the same model I do).
So, I ordered one for myself from Amazon.com along with a Perl book James recommended.
The bluetooth adapter came yesterday and this morning I got it plugged into my laptop and used it to create a virtual dial-up connection with my Treo 650 effectively giving me Internet access with my laptop pretty much anywhere I can get a SprintPCS signal.
Awesome!
I still haven't figured out how to sync via bluetooth, though. *sighs*
FC4 is so awesome- why did they have to break the USB Palm sync stuff?