Another Thanksgiving gone by, and it’s time to look Christmas
right in the eye. I love how some radio stations decide to "convert"
for the "holiday" to play Christmas music and drop their regular
programming. So dumb. I also bought a new D-Link
DI-704 router/firewall today for my house. Not much to say about
that, except that it was TEN DOLLARS! Haha, you’ve been had Best Buy.
Also today, here are the three Star Wars Episode II trailers that I
know of: from the previews during
Monsters, Inc (Breathing),from the DVD
of Episode I, and the last one "Forbidden
Love." (Thanks to Eric Lai
for these).
So, as I was saying a week ago, I went to go see the Lion
King in LA. It was pretty good! I’m a very undiscerning playgoer,
thus I tend to like all plays regardless. The costumes and the sets
were amazing though. They had people dressed up like lions and cheetah
and elephants, which was really quite a site. I also saw this last Thursday
the premier of Dracula, The Musical at the La Jolla Playhouse. It was
chock full of special effects and awesome use of lighting. The songs
were pretty catchy, although the plot was a little expected, but all
in all, a really good show. I really haven’t put any pictures up. It’s
time to put some pictures up.
Well, what a terrible week. Terrible terrible. Thankfully
it’s finally over, and I have a three day weekend ahead of me. Me and
a coworker were talking at the VA about how to redo the navigation system
of a web system. It dawned upon me that it would be really cool to do
it with XML and some type of rules-processor. Stay tuned for more (I
say that quite often, don’t I?). Tonight my girlfriend and I are going
to see Lion King in LA. It’s
been reviewed really well, and we have VIP seats; I’m really excited.
Plus, it’s at the Pantages
— easily the best LA theater — which is the same place I saw Phantom
at.
I never thought that I’d out live any of my friends. It’s
such a strange thought, and so foreign. I guess had I really thought
about it, it would have been inevitable that some would pass away before
I did. But I guess you never really think about that. Two good friends
of mine passed away this year. Kenny Samuel Chiu (3.27.84 – 7.30.01)
was murdered outside his house in my neighborhood back home in Mouton
Ranch, Laguna Hills. And Nathan Stewart Lynch (1.7.81 – 11.3.01) passed
away after losing a long battle with cancer in Madison, Wisconsin. They
will never be forgotten.
This has been a trying year.
It sure has been a long time since I’ve updated my site. We
just got DSL to replace our cable
modem, so now that I have my own IP address life should be more interesting.
Look for TonoTopic soon, which will let all you AOL IMers out there
do some really new and fun things with your profile. Apparently Microsoft
is closer to reaching a settlement
with Justice. About time. Last night I went to this crazy Halloween
party thrown by Mr. Mark Stickel, et. al. Very fun, mad props to them.
What else has been going on? Not much, I’m crazily busy with life, work
and such. Anyway, more to follow as usual.
With a midterm and a paper due tomorrow, I don’t see myself
writing much, outside of providing this useless distraction: network
diagrams! CatherNet is the home network we run in our house. You can
get it either as a: picture or dynamic
HTML.
Well, it’s been quite a time since I’ve updated the hizouse
about what’s been going on. I’m living in a new place in University
City, which is quite out of control. We’ve got a pool, spa, outdoor
speakers, outdoor shower, 5 bedrooms, etc, etc. It’s really nice. Life’s
going really well right now, so I can’t be complaining, except our internet
access. Apparently, RoadRunner doesn’t
allow any static IPs and only via DHCP, so we’re changing over to Earthlink
DSL. Hopefully that’ll be better. My web-setup is pretty interesting
right now. At the front of the internet connection is a Win2k Advanced
Server, running Apache. The front
end server provides firewalling, and Apache provides proxying for my
web server which sits on the inside of the firewall. All connections
are proxied through the Apache server. The web server is another Win2K
AS box, running IIS. It in turn grabs the files it serves from a Win2K
Pro box that is on the intranet. Pretty nifty. Apache’s mod_proxy
works really well; I’m really impressed by it.
Tomorrow I will be attempting to fly to Los Angeles from Seattle.
I have finished my job at Microsoft, and will be heading back to San
Diego. Have you done your part and helped out yet? If not, visit the
Red Cross.