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14 February 1999
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valentine's day. i didn't send anything physical, didn't receive anything physical. i think that's good though, not buying into the whole consumerist side of the holiday. and aren't i s'posed to be all cynical and jaded about valentine's day? but, i love you anyway, and here's my digital card [pic deleted, link added] for you all. yes, scribbled on an envelope, scanned, and coloured.
last night i was about to log off and go to sleep at about 130. i decided to read the root mail first. in it was a complaint that a spammer had used our server as an email relay. i had thought that relaying was turned off, but i guess when we switched mail services from turnip to carrot something broke. so i messed around with the config files, and fixed it. then i went in and tried to manually expunge the couple hundred copies in the mail queue that had not gone out yet. i guess the hour of day got to me 'cause somehow i ended up deleting the perl binary instead. i'm still not sure how. so i downloaded the newest build of perl and reinstalled. then wrote another script to purge the mail queue. so i was up until about 4 am dealing with all this.
then i had a bit of a conceptual dream. the world was a mosaic, made up of red and white tiles (try reloading that pic a few times), each with a url. i was reconfiguring them and there were things that didn't work, and other sorts of problems. and it just dragged on and on.
and today's just been another fun-filled day of work. dragging on and on, as it were. and tomorrow's monday and there's classes and homework and stuff. it just never ends, does it?
last night i was about to log off and go to sleep at about 130. i decided to read the root mail first. in it was a complaint that a spammer had used our server as an email relay. i had thought that relaying was turned off, but i guess when we switched mail services from turnip to carrot something broke. so i messed around with the config files, and fixed it. then i went in and tried to manually expunge the couple hundred copies in the mail queue that had not gone out yet. i guess the hour of day got to me 'cause somehow i ended up deleting the perl binary instead. i'm still not sure how. so i downloaded the newest build of perl and reinstalled. then wrote another script to purge the mail queue. so i was up until about 4 am dealing with all this.
then i had a bit of a conceptual dream. the world was a mosaic, made up of red and white tiles (try reloading that pic a few times), each with a url. i was reconfiguring them and there were things that didn't work, and other sorts of problems. and it just dragged on and on.
and today's just been another fun-filled day of work. dragging on and on, as it were. and tomorrow's monday and there's classes and homework and stuff. it just never ends, does it?