Yay, another update. Life has been insanely busy lately. Some fun notes: I've been taking golf lessons! ph34r! I'm not terribly good, honestly. I'm going on a golf trip starting tomorrow and will be getting back on Thursday, should be much fun. Nice to get a break for a bit too. The deadlines this week have been really painful, unfortunately. They were nice enough to give me a phone though, after I managed to rack up $200 in overages last month.

Japi also pointed out that awstats on tamriel have been busted forever, ugh, another thing to have to get done. :/ I did get the bad disk in tamriel replaced though, so the main parts of the system are up on a working RAID-1 again. When doing a backup of tamriel I discovered something pretty sad- half of the /home partition was taken up with various people's spam folders. That is *so* ridiculous. If anyone knows of a *good* way to deal with spam, I'm all ears. There seems to be alot of different approachs, but none of them work terribly well in the end unless you can dump alot of resources into dealing with it and I just don't have that kind of free time.

Megan started a new job this week. She was pretty disappointed to have to leave her old job, but that's what happens sometimes.

Alright, so, not alot of time for an update, given that it's an insane hour of the morning, but... The pictures area (over there on the left) has been updated with insane (probably too much) amounts of new material. It even has funny things like thumbnails and a less-than-gigantic resolution for pictures. The huge pictures are also available, actually, I just havn't put them in the correct places yet. You can (partially) thank Brian for the pictures coming back, I used his code as a baseline, which I then hacked the crap out of. Of course, I also used his blosxom setup for the blog itself. :)

So, yes, it's coming back, for real, honestly... Much, as usual, has happened since the last update. Benjamyn is over a year old, I'm back in school going for my Master's in CS over at GMU, Brian is back working with me at Noblis (which just changed its name from Mitretek Systems a couple of weeks ago), etc, etc... I'll try and update again before *too* much longer, but figured I'd throw something up now that I got Blosxom, more-or-less, working.

So, I know I said March before but following in the footsteps of his big brother, Benjamyn Carter Frost was born February 24th, 2006, 2 weeks early. At birth he weighted 8 lbs, 3 oz and was 22" long. Another big kid, what can I say? :) Megan and Benjamyn will be in the hospital for a couple more days (probably till Monday).
Check out the pictures!

As some of you might have noticed, my website's been down for a little while. Basically what happened is that one of my machines at home died and I needed to replace it in rather short order- which I did, with my webserver. I had been thinking I would set up apache on the replaced box and have it be the webserver too. As it turns out though, I'm rather lazy and just never got around to it. Eventually I decided that it probably made more sense to put my website up on kenobi.snowman.net (shared colo box in texas). That involved some amount of effort though and it wasn't until now that I got around to it.

At this point though I'm thinking I'll probably redesign my website, maybe do a silly RSS feed or whatever and move the rest of the stuff I do at home to kenobi. Once that's done I might actually (*gasp*) cancel my DSL line and just live with my cable modem. I've got a couple other people using my DSL at the moment, so I'll need to kick them off first, of course. In the end I'd probably save about $90/month though which would be nice, considering we've got another kid on the way!

For those of you who don't know (and there can't be very many...), Megan's pregnant again (go me!) and she's due in March. It's starting to get exciting as we get closer to when she's due. As with Ryan, we've decided that we're not going to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl ahead of time, sorry to all you grandparents out there.

In other news, perhaps the reemergence of my website will prompt me into working on a few things. People have actually started bugging me on IRC about ipt_recent being busted in the latest kernels (which I fully expect is due to people changing how jiffies are supposed to be handled, again) so I'm going to try and work on that a bit in the nearish future. The other big thing I need to get back to working on is my Debian Application Manager stuff, I've let that sit for *way* too long at this point. I need to update some of my Debian packages too. Oh, and PostgreSQL 8.1 is out, with Roles support, added by yours truly (well, in part, Tom Lane did alot of work on them too)- check for my name in the release notes though! I need to spend some time with the information_schema in 8.1 and the SQL2003 specification though and make sure we're doing the right things there with regard to roles.

Enough for now I suppose. I'll try to update this site a bit more frequently in the future, but then, I try to do alot of things.

Alright, so, Megan informed me of some gross mistakes in my prior news entry so I went through and fixed some things. :) Sorry honey, all better now!

Alright, just got back from our honeymoon last night. Check out the pictures section to see some of what we got to enjoy. It was a ton of fun though of course not long enough. We're happy to be back though, we missed Ryan alot while we were gone (and it was only for a week!). I'll be getting back to actually doing stuff for the various extra-curricular activities I enjoy (which means: Debian AM, Maintainer and buildd local-admin work, some contracting work I do on the side, playing soccer and having fun w/ my WIFE and son. :)).

Alright, the quick run-down on the Honeymoon, since people are asking:

Flew out of Dulles at 8:20am Sunday morning (June 6th). Chilled in New Orleans basically all day, went to Pat O'Briens and had some drinks, stopped in an Irish shop (picked up a nice Irish money-clip for myself, and some other things), and walked down Bourbon street (basically a bunch of strip joints and shops). We boarded the ship that afternoon, had dinner on the ship, etc.

We then had a few days on the ship to hang out, play in the casino, hang out at the pools, dance in the clubs, etc. We went to the 'up-scale' dinner place called 'The Point', very nice, very cool place. It wasn't crowded at all which meant we had about 5 waiters/chefs/etc taking care of us through the whole meal. It cost a little extra to eat there, but it was well worth it. We also killed a very nice bottle of wine while we were there.

Then, the night before we got to Montego Bay, Jamaica, we drank, and drank, and drank, and one of us (ahem, not me) ended up getting sick before the end of the night. The next morning, bright and early, we had to be up and on a very bouncy bus headed into the jungle on nice small and windy roads. We went on the Canopy Tour through the jungle, *very* cool stuff. Basically you zipline through the Jamaican jungle going from the mountains to platforms 50' up in the trees and then back. The longest zipline was over 1000 feet, went across the Great River and you got up to about 40 mph on it. Talk about alot of fun! There was another very cool route that went perhaps a couple hundred feet right through some jungle trees, so close that you were brushing by the leaves as you went, awesome stuff. There are pictures of all of this under the Honeymoon section.

The next day we were at Grand Cayman where we got to go play with the stringrays. This was a very cool experience, we were able to touch, pet, feed and even pick up stringrays! Basically they took us out to a sandbar in the ocean near Grand Cayman where lots of stringrays hang out and gave us some fresh squid to feed them. Watch out though, they'll give you a hickey if you don't hold the squid right! Talk about a blast. Unfortunately, we picked the later running tour and were lazy about getting up so we didn't have much time to check out the shops when we got back. The shops were very cool though, selling all kinds of interesting things (including Big Black Dick Rum, as I recall, made locally). We did go to the casino that night and Megan ended up winning about $144 there playing the Stampede! slots. This had to be one of the coolest slot machines in the place. Every once in a while you'd get a 'Stampede' and a guy would come on and say "It's a STAMPEDE!" and then you get 5 free spins where you have to round up the cows and if you get a cash cow you get an extra bonus. Lots of fun, Megan had a great time playing it. I lost a bunch on some other slot machines, lots of fun though.

The next day we were at Cozumel, very cool place even though it ended up raining basically all day. We had fun though, didn't have any planned tours and instead just went 'downtown' and checked out all the shops. At the end we went to Carlos N' Charlie's, very cool bar/restaurant, definitely recommend it to everyone! Be sure to get at least a shot or two while you're there though! And don't forget to buy a YARD margarita! Quite the drink (we each had two, it was alot of fun). They've also got a nice, though very busy, dance floor there. We shared a cab back to the dock with another very nice couple.

On the last day we didn't do too terribly much besides pack and whatnot. The one very cool thing was that we went back to the casino and had some much better luck. I managed to hit just about a jackpot on one of the slot machines and took away about $250 from it off of $10 (betting 50 cents at a time). We then went over to the roulette table for a while, my first time ever playing roulette for money. It took me a while but with the help of some other very nice players I managed to get the hang of it. Started out with $20 and was up over $120 at one point. Roulette is a great game, but you really have to take chances and go for the singles and doubles instead of the better odds because the payout is *so* much better for them. If you hit $2 on a single number it's a $64 payout or so, as I recall (32 to 1 odds). Something like that, while $2 on 'even' or 'odd' is just 'even money', so you get $4 from it or so. Anyway, I ended up walking away with about $80, so, $60 in profit, lots of fun and $300+ for the night, not too shabby!

Alright, done with the update-from-hell (actually, we didn't make it to Hell, but it was a place on Grand Cayman that sold postcards. ;)).

Alright folks, so it *might* have been a little while since I last updated. Like, sorry and stuff for that. I've updated pictures of Ryan in the past year though! Anyway, been very busy with the wedding plans to get all that much done on the network. Always lots of plans, never enough time. I really havn't had enough time to even work on one of the things I really enjoy- Debian. I'm also looking into going back for my Master's starting in the fall and doing part-time unix admin stuff for a friend who runs a small ISP (and, well, hell, has been coming to me for various random questions about issues with things since he started the damn thing, might as well get paid for it! ;) ). Oh, yeah, and alcohol is bad! Had my bachelor party this past Sat., getting married on this coming Sat. (June 5th) and then leaving for a week long cruise through the carribean, back on the 13th. Oh, yeah, and was confirmed in the Catholic church this past Sunday. Oh, and my bachelor party was the first time I'd ever gotten so drunk that I puked afterwards! Let me tell you, getting confirmed with a massive hang-over is quite the challenge. Somehow I manged to pull through though. Alright, off to play soccer, yeah, so, no, didn't update my soccer schedule, it's the last game of the Spring season anyway, maybe if you're lucky I'll update it for the Summer season when that starts. So, like, I'll try and update this more often in the future. :)

Alright, so, I'm gonna update this again since I havn't in forever. I did manage to graduate from GMU and have even received my degree in mail (yay!). The degree is my Bachelor's in Computer Science. I may go get another degree sometime but I think I'm going to take off at least a year and maybe start classes again in the Fall of 2004. Things at work have been pretty busy and things at home have been busy too. We threw a party for my graduation and then had company visit for a weekend so we had to get the house all cleaned up and stuff. It's certainly looking much nicer now. I'm trying to get time to work on Debian/AM/Netfilter/OpenLDAP/etc computer geek stuff, we'll have to see how that goes. Anyhow, that's my update.

Put up some more pictures of my very, very cute kid (check out the dancing action happening in 113 and 114!). Things are going pretty well with his first week of daycare, think we're starting to get into a bit more and better routine. Megan got a much needed break tonight I think and hung out with some friends at Chili's after work. School and work during the past week have kept me ridiculously busy but, hey!, it's the last semester, yay!

Ok, let's get down to network stuffs, I've opened up a CVS anonymous pserver for those who care, mainly so people can check out my ipt_recent iptables module code that I've been working on lately but there's other stuff there. I also set up a CVSWeb setup for those who like to browse code. I moved the mailing lists to their own hostname (http://lists.snowman.net) mostly for fun though some day maybe the list server will be a seperate machine. Be sure and let me know if anything breaks and stuff.