Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
It is Friday and New Year’s Even here in Bayou Vista. It is really handy that the family decided that they are all going to come over to Joe and Britt’s house for the New Year’s Eve party tonight so we don’t have to worry about going anywhere. Very convenient. I worked today from the …
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Today was a pretty slow work day for me. I worked all day from Joe and Britt’s house. I have my laptop set up on the kitchen counter and spend most of the day just standing at it or, from time to time, sitting on a bar stool to work at it. It sounds more …
I am working from the Galveston area (Bayou Vista and League City) all week. This morning Dominica and I hung out in Bayou Vista for a while before heading out to get lunch at Waffle House. We are loving having access to Waffle House now that we are living in Texas. While I was out …
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Often we have to use “telnet remotehost.somewhere.com 80” to test if a remote socket connection can be established. This is fine for one time tests but can be a problem when it comes time to test a number of connections – especially if we want to test them programmatically from a script. Perl to the …
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Liesl and Oreo got me up pretty early this morning, around six thirty. Luckily we had been smart and came back to Joe and Britt’s house early last night and had gotten to sleep probably by ten. I am back to normal work hours today and that means getting up super early every day because …