oh neglected blog
I've been super busy with various projects and crap for... a long while, but I'll summarize what I've been doing while I've been not blogging.
- Laid 46 sq meters (500 sq ft) of laminant flooring from Ikea in the living room, dining room and hallway.
- Installed (with help) new pre-hung front door. Looks MUCH nicer than the old, plain, crappy steel door we had. And, I installed a door bell! Our house didn't have one before for some inexplicable reason.
- Went to Ohio LinuxFest 2007 in September. My first time; it was very cool. My favorite talk was an intro to Python by Catherine Devlin.
- Setup a MythTV box, put in a bluetooth receiver and configured our Wiimotes to act as input devices for the system so they can navigate the Myth frontend. Still working on this as the box is starved for memory and I drop lots of frames if I try to watch HD (broadcast only, we don't have cable tv), but the system is quite usable. I recorded/watched some cool programs on PBS not long ago.
- Setup an Asterisk server, bought a few IP phones and an ATA and got cheap VOIP service. I tried out Trixbox initially (well, for about an hour), but I didn't like being insulated from the guts of the config so I just went with a Xubuntu server running regular Asterisk instead. I learned a lot more that way; configuring SIP, custom dialplans, voicemail, etc.
- Tore a hole in the wall between dining room and front room and put in a new doorway. Destruction with a sledgehammer: FUN! Drywall/plaster work: eh, not so fun. Also a lot of electrical work there, as I had to move wires for two circuits. This is almost finished, pending final coat of plaster and then paint.
- And most recently... I obviously got a new domain name for my blog!
Those are the highlights anyway. I'll soon share more details about various sub-projects and stuff.
