Long time, No Write

I know, I know… First let me say Merry Christmas. The season brings a lot of reasons to write and start trying to bring communities of friends back together. And with that, some of the current projects on my plate.

DekiWiki

From MindTouch, I’ve been slowly replacing some cobbled-together legacy infrastructure based on wordpress, mediawiki, phpbb, etc with a dekiwiki. So far it has been able to replace all that software and more.

Firewall

I’ve replaced my Endian based firewall with a symantec SGS 1620 from ebay, and I must say that it is an extremely capable unit that so far is handling everything we through at it, save for one exception… A webserver I use sends what the SGS considers an invalid response and refuses to pass the traffic.

Browsers

Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Konqueror and Flock. I have been back and forth more than I’d like to be, which is more an indication that none of them stand out and are perfect by themselves. On the mac, I am still using safari full time, and on windows I have been leaning toward chrome, but not for any google integration, just for speed and simplicity without sacrifice. On Linux, it’s still firefox.

Design

I still have been working on some design projects, but nothing I am releasing at this time. I have been working on Mail.app templates, general art and logos, as well as some internal designs on novcon.

House

Everything is at a new location now, all wired up, but had a very hard time getting a broadband connection out here. But now the office and everything is all set up and back in operation. And most importantly, the cat has settled down.