Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

Back from class! Fortunately it picked up during the last two days. I learned a lot of spiffy information, including a very minimal primer on LDAP. Plus, I now own the frields.org domain! You can expect to see some changes around here for that reason, as soon as I have …

Saw Terminator 3 on Monday night, which was far better than I had expected, although it still didn’t measure up to T2. The RH253 class, on the other hand, has not fared as well in my critical opinion. Our instructor, although obviously a smart guy and with a lot of …

Added weather stripping and caulked like a maniac over the weekend to see if I could stop the leak into the basement that was so devastating the night of those really bad storms. When our contractor re-set our french doors down there, it looks like he inexplicably removed all the …

Our show yesterday at the Reston Festival went quite well. No major wreckage occurred, other than a spontaneous rearrangement of “Get On With It,” our opening number. Fortunately, all of us were pretty much connected at the hip, musically speaking, so it was most likely unnoticeable to everyone but ourselves. …

Last night we had some tremendous storms which, when combined with the crappy job that our contractor’s employee did resetting our outside door, contributed to a huge leak problem in the basement… right against our newly-finished floor. Fortunately we were home at the time, and took the time to check …

I’m keeping images and other large files on an external server for now, while my blog will be carried at my home systems. This may mean occasional interruptions courtesy of my provider, but prevents me from having to transfer the whole thing to another service. I’ve gotten very accustomed to …

AGG! My blog ISP only supports active FTP, and not sFTP, so I’ve had to relocate for now. That means slower image loading, so I’ll try to keep pictures within a reasonable size. Those of you on dialup won’t notice, the rest will have to suffer in silence. ?

The studio floor is now complete! I’ll have some pictures up shortly. There’s still work to be done on putting down the quarter-round molding, but at least I can move some things down there and get ready to “evacuate” the current office for Evie’s new furniture. My knees have never …

Listening to the beautiful new album by The Thorns, a kind of pop superband made up of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins… kind of like a CSN for the 00’s. This got me thinking of my lackluster Sweet collection, so I’ve been dredging eBay for the records of …