December 29, 2009: Workweek in the Galveston Area

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 …

Testing Socket Connections Programmatically

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 …

December 28, 2009: Back to Work

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 …

December 27, 2009: Mario Bros Wii Day

We are still pretty tired today but feeling a little better.  My big project for the day, besides working for the office, was to get caught up on SGL updates.  The “move” is pretty much over at this point so now I can focus on getting everything back the way that it should be.  The …