I get envious when I come upon people that have such a passion for things they do. For instance, my friend Stian, he has so many projects going on it’s insane. He’s been coding an email-client in perl, which he’s named Inlook (brilliant name – Microsoft’s Outlook, get it?), he also has a music-project, and he’s trying to write a novel. Another friend, Kenneth, is always looking for new stuff to try out, especially when it comes to media – ripping his own DVD’s, always finding and testing out what the best alternatives are. At last I’ve found something to get me going. I’ve been working on two things of late – a way to get hold of your passwords through a terminal or SSH, in a safe and easy way, and making an open source pastebin. Here’s a screenshot of both projects:
 |
 |
sps is pretty simple – as not only do you not need a graphical interface to manage it, but it’s dependencies are rather common things. As for the pastebin, the temporary name I’ve given it is code-fu. If it’ll stick or not remains to be seen. But at least I’ve got some things going on. Very exciting. :)
GNU (GNU’s Not Unix) celebrated quite recently (yesterday) a very special birthday. 25 years had passed since everything was started, and even Stephen Fry was eager to make a video, congratulating the project.
As I may have mentioned before (or not at all), I used to be a GNU webmaster, helping them translate their website to Norwegian. I don’t recall how long I helped out, perhaps a year. I had to give it up though, real life came in the way. With Michael around now, I’m surprised I even have time to check my email when at home. Having left the days with GNU behind me, imagine my surprise when a co-worker made me aware of this:
Seems my name was in the end credits. :) There you have it, my 1.5 seconds of fame. :)
Oh, and happy birthday GNU!
So much has been happening of late that I’ve been having trouble keeping track of it all. Marte finally got her driverlicense, so well done there! Can’t describe how proud I am of her. :) Now if only I could start taking driverlessons, and eventually getting my driverslicense. Ah well, thoughts for another time.
So let’s see, what has been happening around here. My parents have been visiting more frequently for one, which has been nice, as Michael is growing by the day, and they’ve said countless times that they want to be around more, in fear of him not knowing who they are with time. We just bought ourselves a new TV, JVC 37″ LCD-TV to be exact. Seems to be working pretty good so far. :) We bought ourselves some new furniture as well, which goes nicely along with the new TV.
Marte starts working Wednesday, so I’m on parental leave two days a week, enabling me to take care of Michael while Marte brings home the bacon. I have to admit, I thought taking care of Michael hours a day was a simple matter. Boy have I come to discover that I’ve never been so wrong about something. You’d think he was feeding on sugar the whole night instead of sleeping. Because when he wakes up, sheesh, he’s like a miniature Flash Gordon. One second he’s there, the other he’s not. And the stuff he comes up with, bah, can’t even begin to explain. For instance, yesterday, one minute he’s there, the other he’s gone. We weren’t able to find him. And what do you know, there he was all over our dog’s food bowl, eating her food. He has started to stand up on his own feet as well, so you can always find him stretching over the livingroom-table, trying to get hold of anything that lies there. Not to mention our DVDs, cables, papers. If someone has any suggestions as to how I’m going to survive the day with Michael, by my self, please..PLEASE let me know.. :P
