Nina's Exhilarating Life

We see Sicko at the sneak preview last night.  It was great.  I didn’t feel that it was political at all so this movie should interest everyone.  GO SEE IT.

I was in the garage with Tom when I saw one of the condo busy bodies. I pointed her out to him but he wasn’t sure what a busy body was. Lucky, they showed him the true definition. I had put up some decorations for my Dads party when someone on the [...]

I gave my Dad a surprise retirement party today and boy was he surprised. I think we had 50 people or so show up. I purchased two layers of chocolate 10″ cake and two layers of carrot 8″ cake from http://www.sugarcakestudio.com/. I also got enough white chocolate fondant to cover it. [...]

Normal girls spend their Saturday nights doing sys admin stuff!  I upgraded my ubuntu laptop to the latest.  I fixed (actually… installed another application) my screen saver on my FreeBSD box.  For some reason, it is not locking the screen after it’s turning on.  This is a problem when Tom is over since he thinks [...]

One of my former employers was purchased by SonicWALL this week. If there are any Aventail coworkers out there… want a job? Aventail went through millions (120 million…) and at the end they were only worth 25 million. It’s rather sad.

I know I am getting old because I was thrilled to find my Dyson arrived today!  I ripped the box open and VACUUMED right away!  It does a good job picking up stuff I didn’t even know was there.  Sadly, the cat is still running around instead of in the clear plastic container.  (We had [...]

I went to NANOG again last night and it was rather enjoyable.  MSFT hosted a party and gave away some prizes.  One of the Yahoo! guys (a direct competitor) won an XBox.  I of course did not win anything but I did get to see carrar and a few others.  Well, plus I had Tom…
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The only reason I would buy .MAC is for the iCal functions.  I have tried to use something similar on my website but it doesn’t work quite as well.  Anyway, I kept finding open source versions with the hope that it works.  The latest one apparently turned on logging by default.  Since it was being [...]