It is sunday, it is sunny outside, and oddly enough for this part of the country it is also warm. I went out on my bike for a while, found the path along the top of the hill behind our house is open and went along it. 30 degree slopes with potholes in are quite fun to zoom down.

I also managed to compile kernel 2.4.5 with the crypto stuff. It took some effort. First I applied the 2.4.4->2.4.5 patch, then the international patch from kerneli, but the kernel failed to build (it moaned about the loopback fs code). I then patched my 2.4.4 kernel with the crypto stuff, then patched that to 2.4.5. It built!… but I forgot to enable ReiserFS so my machine didn’t boot. Eventually I got 2.4.5, the crypto stuff, and a booting machine! Now for some reason my joystick has stopped working. Typical.

I’m slowly updating the code behind this website. The copy on my machine lets you filter diary entries by month. I’m trying to work out the best way to restructure the downloads/code pages. I’d also like something that lets me visually draw HTML tables. Or I could learn CSS (that being “Cascading Style Sheets”, not the stupid DVD encoding algorithm that can be broken with 3 lines of Perl. OpenDVD!). I could make the effort to learn php_fasttemplate or something, but they look really complicated.

Freshmeat seems to be dead. This is a bit inconvenient…

Wish I had a permanent net connection, my modem doesn’t seem to be able to sustain two things at once. I might have buggered my firewall up though, I really should look into that.