(from Toby's perspective)

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 to 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 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:

2003-04-02 I've been helping teach a course in GNU/Linux at 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 GnuLinuxIntro.

2003-01-26 I stumbled across the 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 One Heartbreak for the layout concept).

2002-12-10 It's been a long time since the last update, but things have been busy lately. It's been a bumpy fall in terms of colds, sinus infections, ear infections, pneumonia, etc etc. Even the dog got an ear infection! But everyone is healthy at the moment, except for the most excellent noisy red car. I shouldn't be surprised after 13 years, but it's beginning to show its age.

2002-10-25 Vicky organized a fundraising dinner for 150 of our close friends last Friday night. The keynote speech was given by the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, who was excellent. If you get a chance to see him speak (or preach) you won't be disappointed.

2002-08-28 Vicky's step-father Vincent O'Gorman passed away recently. We'll miss him.

2002-08-04 Back from vacation, and surprisingly little has changed. Where are the home improvement elves that we keep hearing about?

2002-07-11 Katharine is sleeping in a big-girl bed! Vicky and I swapped her crib for a bed yesterday (a process which involved a lot more work than you might imagine, long story). Kath spent her first night in it last night and everything went reasonably well, although it's going to take a while to get her to stay in the bed for any length of time.

2002-07-08 Today is the first day of camp for both Tory and Katharine. It was nice to spend some time with both of them, but it will also be nice to have them at camp for a few hours.

2002-06-27 Yesterday was Tory's birthday, we had a fun half-sleepover with some of her neighborhood friends. Also the first anniversary of the purchase of our house!

2002-05-12 The past weekend was my 20th from high school. Pretty darn wierd, if you ask me. But it was interesting catching up with people that I hadn't seen in a long, long, time. The worst part of the weekend was when someone pointed out that the seniors weren't born when we graduated.

2002-04-02 Today the official Black Ink Systems web site went live, along with the press release introducing the company and our products. Very exciting times!

2002-03-17 Tory has been making fantastic progress at learning to ride a bike. See TorysBike.

2002-02-14 Want an idea for a really hot Valentine's present? How about a new dryer! Who says the romance is gone?

Kath is getting over pneumonia and an ear infection. It's been a tough winter for that kid.

2002-01-27 There's been a whole lotta barfin' goin' on around here lately. Kath, Tory, and Vicky have all been sick in the last few days. Not much fun, I tell you.

2002-01-17 My father, TonyCabot, a/k/a Poohpa, now has his own page on this site, and he's been busy uploading pictures of this and that. Between his new camera and mine, it looks as if I'll have to upgrade our disk capacity before too long.

2002-01-14 Hope you had a happy holiday! I noticed that I didn't mention that I've started a new job, at Black Ink Systems. Very interesting company.

The grey station wagon is not long for this earth. It's been a fun, but fussy, car.

2001-12-14 Katharine's getting over a sinus infection (thanks, Moxie!) and yesterday the jail wall opposite our house was torn down. It's pretty nice for the time being, but my understanding is that they're planning on building a garage there before too long.

2001-11-30 I saw the news today, oh boy. Rest in peace, George.

2001-10-31 Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. A new family member joined us over the weekend - bubbles the goldfish has taken up residence at the Caboteria. Mr. Fish was a very good fish, I hope Bubbles has a long and healthy future.

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