Today was pretty good, although pretty much everyone was ready for the weekend. We talked about breaking into stuff in networking, and about diffraction in physics. Yes, I actually payed attention in there today - that's partially due to my not having web pages since I managed to crash my laptop. Oh well, work was fun at first because the email server was effectively down to to problems reaching the domain controller (intermittent wireless outages again). This time I just fixed it by dropping some invalid static arp entries in and restarting exchange, which was very effective, although pretty much everyone agreed they would have never thought of that as a way to drop a firewall between the machines without using a firewall. Sometimes I must just think odd... :) Anyways, the reason for the packet loss was the rain in the trees again, which also meant our mini-golf trip was canceled. The tradeoff was Great China though, which wasn't so bad - gotta love crab rangoon. The DAAP proxy was very nice - a much larger selection of music, all streaming realtime to XMMS. Apparently my success convinced another person I work with to start making requests of iTunes clients to debug it. He also agreed it wasn't that complex. To top it all off I got home, built my PVR box, and watched music video DVDs while waiting for ISOs to download. RH9 is surprisingly easy to install, as was mythtv. It really wants a capture card though, so maybe tomorrow I'll go and find a PVR-250 or something. Hardware MPEG2 encoding would be nice. Oh well, apparently I have to help get stuff together tomorrow since my sister's having an all-night party with a bunch of people tomorrow night, which means I don't get to sleep in right. :( Hopefully it won't interfere with geeky shopping...