There are a couple of updates over on my real site. My script to copy the entries over on LJ broke (or rather LJ::Simple or whatever module I used did) and I haven't taken time to fix it ...

This year I'm going to celebrate christmas with Birla whom I've known since we were 6-7 years old. We went to school together for 12 years and now she ended up here in Los Angeles as well. What a small world it is sometimes. She is married to James Hood and they are playing family in the hills here. Visiting them some months ago I was quite ( Read more... )

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Like Brian Dear I started getting enormous amounts of junk mail after sending a bit of money to the ACLU. No, they don't have even an opt-out button in their donation process. My little brain can barely contain the irony of the ACLU selling my postal address and justifying by saying that they are going to somewhere in their terms. Did I mention ( Read more... )

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I got T-Mobile to enable GPRS ("T-Mobile Internet") on my phone the other day. It works alright with the t68i and the PowerBook. I used Ross Barkman's "modem scripts". With the right script with the magic "use GPRS" commands I just had to choose the correct "CID" and enter "internet2.voicestream.com" as the phone number. I also setup a "Data ( Read more... )

Mark Fowler is doing a Perl Advent Calendar again this year.

Each day he picks out a useful or interesting module that you likely haven't heard about. Very fun and useful.

If you are impatient and want to open the rest of the doors, then you can go back and play with the calendars from 2000, 2001 or 2002.

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Lots of things happened in my life in the last ~2 months. But they've all been either too personal to post here or too insignificant relatively to the important things for me to want to take time to write them. I considered writing about the more personal things, but I decided against it. I think I might be about ready to pick up the stream of ( Read more... )