I haven't updated my phlog in a while,
but I have been reading yours if
you're on any of the major
aggregators.
Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law
SparkIPX. I hope she's improving.
For the Palm fanatics out there,
someone posted a story on the Hacker
News about a web rendering proxy
server that you might be interested
in:
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
Downloads are here:
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/
Otherwise, it's been an eventful
couple of weeks. The first inspection
on the new bathroom project went well.
Now I'm almost finished wiring the
room. In the meantime, the plumber
came and ran a new main supply line to
the house, because ours was galvanized
and the cost of insuring the
galvanized line was ridiculous. So we
replaced it.
It was a day of digging and then
backfilling. Since it's Canada, the
line has to be buried almost five feet
down to keep it below the frost line.
I'm still sore. The plumber pressed
his kids into service and none of
them got up until late the next
morning, apparently.
Afterward we cut the old galvanized
line to see inside (they're supposed
to rust from the inside out,
deteriorating from within, so that
they break when you least expect it).
It was rusting a little on the inside,
but the walls of the pipe were as
thick as the day it was made. Hmmph.
I've paid insurance companies a lot of
money for nothing over the past 12
years (only a couple of companies were
willing to insure me with the old pipe
in the house and they were charging at
least $300 extra). You can bet I'm
going to shop around for the best deal
in the fall.
On a positive note, the new supply
line is a lot larger than the old one
and we have a much better water
pressure now. My wife loves it.
I feel like I phlog about the most
mundane things. At least it's not
all tech. Perhaps cat will be happy.
One last thing. Isn't it funny how
gopher activity seems to go in waves?
There are weeks when it seems like
almost everyone is posting multiple
times (sometimes more than once a day)
and then weeks when it gets very
quiet. I'm intrigued by that because I
have no idea why it happens.
Cheers, phloggers. Take care.
