Laurabelle’s Blog

It looks like Gmail is putting pressure on Hotmail, because Hotmail just increased my storage limit from 2MB to 250MB. This, after my storage space had steadily dwindled over the six years I've had that account. Gee guys, don't be obvious about it or anything. And Gmail is still officially only in beta!

A film every knitter should see: Gangsta Knitter.
I haven’t even watched it yet (I don’t have the right codecs under Linux, so I’ll watch when I reboot to Windows), but the jpeg on the webpage is hilarious.

I was organizing my papers this evening (otherwise known as Throwing Junk Away) and ran across a letter from my credit card company's customer service. It is dated in early 2000, about a year and a half after I opened my first student credit card account with a limit of $500. $500 was enough most of [...]

I finally figured out what was wrong with leafnode. For some reason, inetd had decided not to start the leafnode daemon when it got a nntp request. I gave it a well-aimed kick, and news is now behaving properly again.

I have been happy with Washington Mutual as my bank for the past two years. However, recently WaMu has been doing skanky things with local Seattle politics (specifically, the Monorail Recall initiative; see Stranger articles from Oct. 14, Oct. 28, and Nov. 4). I was not quite as upset about this as many other [...]

I played around with iptables the other week, trying to set up a basic firewall. I didn't get very far, and I didn't see any difference, at least not immediately. A couple of days ago I tried to read usenet via my usual setup: slrn with a local news server (leafnode). Slrn couldn't connect to the [...]

First I was busy with full-time work, and then I was busy with staying home (and trying not to work).
Work is more or less what it has been, namely, very interesting in ways that I feel I can’t really talk about on a public blog, for various reasons. This is part of the reason I [...]