Tuesday, July 31, 2001

Introduction

Well, time to get started on my blog (created via blogger). It will probably take me a while to figure out exactly what I'm going to be posting and the style that I'm going to use to make my posts.

By the light of my laptop...

Right now I'm sitting on my back porch, enjoying the evening air, and tapping away by the glow of my laptop's display (geeky, huh?). Watching the helicopter take off from the local hospital, guess someone's not having a good evening somewhere to the north. I live in an average section of a small city, it's possible to walk the streets at night, but I wouldn't recommend doing it with some friends or a large dog or two. But then, I grew up out in the country where you had to really holler to overhear your neighbors in the next yard. So seeing people that I don't know walk by in the alley or hearing the neighbors 3 doors down discussing their lives is still something that I'm not used to (even after 10 years or so of living in various apartments).

The reluctant mail server

BTW friends, my work e-mail is working (at least I can get mail), but I can't send mail outside of our domain yet (so yes, I am alive, and no I haven't forgotten your addresses). The mail server is the one server that I don't have control over (well, I technically do, but I don't know enough to get in there and fix the problem because it's has custom filters written by our unix consultant to keep people from using the SMTP server who aren't on the local network ... which doesn't help me since I'm on a different 'local' network). Hopefully he gets back from Sweden or California and checks his e-mail this week and makes the change in the mail server.

posted by Wuphon's at 8:59 PM