Wayne D's Blog

There will soon be a posting about my whirlwind trip to Florida. The weather was terrific, business was good, I met some nice people and made some good business contacts. Air Canada came through for me in the crunch and I flew home in a plane full of cheerleaders. I found the Bose outlet store, man that stuff sounds good. Every time I go into one of their stores my credit card tries to leap out of my pocket. My plane came in late last night and the sleep deficit and sore feet means that this post will be very short. Until I get back to normal you can satiate your curiousity by looking at the pictures I took when I was there. Look over on the right side of the page for my Flickr badge and give it a click.

I just joined Twitter but because my address book is on my rogers email address Twitter couldn't find any of my friends. If you want to follow me I'm at http://twitter.com/wdawe

It's time to pick my forty emusic tracks for the month. First off was In case of Emergency from the Flat Planet's. One of my friends for the Argonotes is their bass player and we saw their last show and liked them a lot. Next up was White Water from California Guitar Trio. I found this quirky and interesting group by using emusic's neighbour tool. Last up was Love Sweet Love by Lynn Miles. I still have six tracks left to download this month, any suggestions on what is good?

A few months ago I tried installing midpssh a mobile ssh client on my Blackberry. I never got it to work and figured it was because of some blocking done by Rogers. I decided to do a bit more research today and came across the critical information I needed on the Blackberry Forum. Find the TCP menu under Options on your Blackberry and put internet.com in the APN: section. Save and reboot your Blackberry by removing the battery.

Now it's time for me to upgrade to the release version of b2evolution. Wish me luck.

Ever since I upgraded to Centos 5 I have noticed that I have been getting a "stopped due to shared library event" message in the Eclipse console when loading a png. This was only a minor irritation until I started to load a sequence of hundreds of png's. It was only a problem when running in Eclipse because the message causes the debugger to stop and then resume the program. After much digging and recompiling SDL to add some additional logging I found that when the SDL_image library was loading an image the SDL library was trying to load libpng.0.3 when SDL had been compiled against libpng12. Rebuilding SDL_image resulted in the same problem, a library looking for libpng.0.3 instead of libpng12. Renaming libpng.0.3 and rebuilding the SDL_image solved the problem.

As promised, here is a poll on your either your personal or your congregation's preferred Communion setting in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Please feel free to leave a comment with your reason for preferring one setting over the other. I excluded setting 10 because it is a hymn based setting. I voted for setting one to test the poll, our congregation hasn't started using the new book yet.

Monday afternoon my wife called me at work to tell me our dog was not her characteristic happy self but instead lackadazical and droopy. This usually happens when she has eaten something. Her nickname is Garbage Hound because she is alway snuffling around trying to find something we have dropped. The suspicion was that she had eaten a part of a Poinsettia leaf because a my youngest son had found one that was wet and only half there on the floor. Princess has already had one trip to the late night vet clinic when she got into some chocolate last Christmas. After some internet research we were reassured that Poinsettia leaves are not acutely toxic but have an irritating sap that cause intestinal upset. The symptoms are drooling, vomiting and diarrhea. She had been drooling already and by the time I made it home she had thrown up on the carpet which seemed to make her feel better. Luckily we were spared the diarrhea and the next morning she was back to normal. When discussing my dog eats stuff story with the bartender at my Tuesday night haunt she told me that her seven pound Yorkie had eaten a whole large Toblerone bar at Christmas with no ill effects.

Tonight I went to our local pool with my Explorer troop. There were many signs asking the men to remove their shoes and boots before entering the change room. Many men did, but many men didn't. The change room floor had more dirt on if than the hallway where I ended up retreating to with my shoes and socks to finish dressing. While we were waiting to enter the pool a couple of men who were coming to pick up their kids after their swimming lessons blithly walked through the change room and the showers right up to the door into the pool without bothering remove their dirty, wet boots. Sigh.