Traveling to Baltimore as I write this (somewhere over New York, I expect) on Airtran. The plane is a fairly new Boeing 717-200, their latest version of the old Douglas DC-9. Pretty nice aircraft.
I got a great view of the completely glass cockpit on the way to my seat – very sweet looking interface.
Presently wireless in Terminal D at Boston’s Logan Airport (Gate 1D to be exact) waiting on the 3pm Airtran flight to Baltimore-Washington Airport. Two days of presentation writing and spending time with some of my peers.
The wireless setup through Boingo is pretty slick, the throughput seems to be very solid and I’m quite impressed with the setup. Sending company email from here is probably really freaking people out 😉 HAHA!
I’ve posted a little bit on why I’m going to be fascinated by this exploration… [Ray Ozzie’s Weblog]
Personally, I’m suprised the seven year old wasn’t charged under some “zero tolerance” statute…
2″ GI Joe rifle confiscated at LAX. The British tabloid The Sun reports that security guards at LAX confiscated a two-inch plastic GI Joe rifle from a seven-year-old’s toy action figure. I feel safer.
Security chiefs at Los Angeles airport said: ãWe have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.
ãIf GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him.ä
Link Discuss (via MeFi) [Boing Boing Blog]
The continuing efforts to eliminate judgment from human processes scares me no end. [McGee’s Musings]
OK, here’s the news I was teasing about earlier. As you may know, Jon Udell took a job at InfoWorld, as a columnist with an agent provacateur sideline. His mission: to get the content of InfoWorld to start to flow out through weblogs. This was deliberate, I am told, by Steve Gillmor, who hired Jon. Most InfoWorlders don’t know much about weblogs, but the management is curious, probably a bit more than curious. So today, they will take a step down a path that (I think) will eventually turn InfoWorld into a fully-weblog-enabled publication, with their first blog, authored by Jon Udell, of course. Now to a Scripting News reader this is hardly earth-shaking. It means that Jon’s url changed. BFD, right? But now the InfoWorld readers (and reporters, columnists, editors, sales people and management) are going to be reading and hearing about weblogs from one of the best in the techblogger community. What’s next? More InfoWorld weblogs, of course! After that, I’ll take Pat McGovern to lunch and talk about the good old days and the bright future. [Scripting News]
Passion Fruit Tea, a long hot shower, a glance out the window, life is improved.
I’m using NetSaint now to monitor my network and some friend / client machines – pretty good system. Still have to update to Nagios and install the temperature sensor that I purchased from a local company. Should be pretty neat when I’m finished.
Need to get the MySQL monitoring portion complete – still have problems getting that module to compile.
Any ideas?
Monitoring Network Services with NetSaint. Like many people, you might not pay as much attention to your car’s fuel gauge as you should. You might only notice the gauge when the gas tank is nearly empty. Some new cars, though, have a nice feature: a dashboard indicator light that reads “Low Fuel” when there is about an eighth of a tank left. This strategy is much better than, say, the “Oil” light; by the time that light comes on, the car is already in trouble. [Linux Magazine]