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I'm having a lot of fun in my new job. I have an office too. It over-looks Thomas Circle. Though as the picture shows, it is an ex-cicle;
New Hampshire Avenue has bi-sected it (twice).
It is nice to work with smart people again, but I need more. I'm looking for one or two Web/App developers who know .NET, C++, XML, and ASP. We have a lot of code that is written in undocumented C++ that use the creator's own libs. I want to move that code to .NET (C#). Hanely-Wood wants me to build a developer team that will modernize and sanitize the websites. Most the team development issues can be solved with open source tools and habits–the developers don't know how to contribute to each other's projects. I think the tasks requires hackers with Mono experience. I'm going to rewrite the job description for the Web/app developer
to reflect my changes to the job requirements. The MS dominance in the job description may in part be an indication of why I was asked to build a new team–its hard to collaborate if your dependant upon Microsoft.
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Friday was my last day working for Direct Holdings, the company that acquired Time-Life at the start of this year. My friend Jeff described the company's plans to continue without me as a traveshamockery. He uses that word often, though I wasn't sure if he means “travesty, sham, mockery”. A quick consultation with Google confirmed this. But take a look at Google's traveshamockery top matches. Wikipedia's entry about Bush Doctrine is the most relevant page!
I rediscovered Submarine Bells by the NZ band, the Chills It's a cleaver pop album. The title track is quite exquisite. I must check out their later albums.
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Living behind a firewall can be a lonely and disparaging place to be. Using ssh's port forwarding capabilities has become an essential task to get through the day. Every few months something is closed off, and I add one more item to my morning startup routine. Opening ports to IRC, streaming music, and most recently mail are the first order of business at my business.
I have a machine in my home's DMZ, and my router will let all ssh traffic go to that machine. There is not a lot on that machine, it just provides extra help to my home machines, and lets my play with Ubuntu Linux.
To connect to IRC, I set host as locahost instead of irc.gnome.org host in Gaim. Every morning I issue the command:
ssh -C -N -f -L 6667:irc.gnome.org:6667 user@my.home.ip
I just login to my IRC account, and ssh sends all my irc traffic over ssh to my computer that can talk over port 6667.
I can connect to irc.freenode.net at the same time. I use 6668:irc.freenode.net:6667 and get the port to 6668 and host to locahost in Gaim.
To listen to Indy Pop Rocks
on SomaFM, I set its address as http://localhost:8076 in Totem. I use:
ssh -C -N -f -L 8076:server1.somafm.com:8076 user@my.home.ip
to do the routing. I could also be streaming from one of my home computers using icecast. I would use something like 8080:transmitter.local:8080 to see it.
