WhatsNew2003 - Main - The Caboteria

*2003-11-06* So much for the new car.  I was driving home last night and a 23-year-old in a borrowed Town Car piled into the back of the Protege, pushing it into a Camry.  Everyone's OK, but the Protege is in rough shape.  Looks like I got rid of the Golf a few months too early.

*2003-09-08* _Saturday night I'd like to raise a little harm, I'll sleep when I'm dead!_  Sleep well, Warren Zevon, you've earned it.

*2003-09-07* I moved the caboteria to an old dual-processor Compaq server I had lying around.  It's substantially more powerful than the previous single-cpu box but it's *loud!*  If you notice anything that doesn't work please let me know.

In other news, both kids are back at school so Vicky has a little time to herself.

*2003-09-02* The caboteria is now running on an RCN "megamodem" cable modem, which claims to have higher upstream bandwidth, i.e. better throughput from me to you.  It was a pretty easy conversion overall, so let's cross our fingers that the service is reliable.

*2003-08-07* The noisy red car has gone to its reward.  I just traded it in on a new car.  It was a wonderful car; I beat on it for 13 years and it rewarded me with outstanding economy and reliability.  If VW made something close to it I would have bought another one but they've gone upscale and every car has power everything and costs an arm and a leg.  The Protege is a basic sedan with good handling.  I hope it's almost as reliable as the Golf.

*2003-07-08* Tory's got a new bike!  I don't remember what kind it is but the important thing is that it's purple.  It's also _substantially_ bigger than her old bike so I might have waited a little too long to get the new one.  We also got a helmet for Katharine in case she wants to play around on the old bike.  At 4 years old her head was too big for the kiddie helmets so we had to get her small adult one.

*2003-06-01* I've got a new job as a software consultant with [[http://www.riverton.com/][Riverton Corporation]]  We do design, architecture, and development work, mostly in Java using J2EE.  It's a small company with a team of really bright people who are also fun to work with!

*2003-04-20* I upgraded the software (http://TWiki.org/) that drives most of the Caboteria.  Please let me know if there are any hiccups.

*2003-04-18* AOL *sucks*!  AOL has decided to reject mail from any server running on a cable modem (like this one).  I think I've set up my mailer to route AOL mail through comcast's server but it's really annoying when they do something like this.

*2003-04-06* Our old landlord pointed us to a picture of our house as it looked in the mid-1800's.  In the following picture our house is the one on the right:

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*2003-04-02* I've been helping teach a course in GNU/Linux at <nop>TecsChange in Roxbury, which is a great organization.  They help teach people how to use computers, and they also recycle old computers for use in social change.  http://www.tecschange.org/  You can see our course notes at Tech.GnuLinuxIntro.

*2003-01-26* I stumbled across the [[http://style.tigris.org/][Style]] project which is just a couple of CSS stylesheets that are roughly the equivalent of a GUI widget set.  A really cool idea.  Anyway, I modified the Caboteria home page and Wiki to use the sheets with a simple 3-pane layout (props to Kurt Stam at [[http://www.oneheartbreak.com][One Heartbreak]] for the layout concept).


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jpg	townhouse.jpg	manage	50.7 K	06 Apr 2003 - 17:22	TobyCabot	picture of our house (on the right)