Done yesterday (20111103 Th)

Felt like a pretty good day -- it was perfect weather for walking, and I actually made use of it. There's a nice little trail along Stevens Creek, which I walked a bit of. I got lucky; it apparently started raining sometime in the afternoon.

And I made a phone call to make an appointment. That's two this week so far. Of course, there are lots more phone calls I need to make.

I finally Read The Find Manual on shorewall, and found the incantation I needed to make inbound port forwarding work. So now I can ssh directly to the fileserver. Am now looking into locking it down more. Not hard; the simplest way is just to set up a server running as an unprivileged user on a different port.

Elevating the head of the bed still seems to be working on reflux: I woke up with my throat dry and a little scratchy, but not filled with mucus the way it often is.

Lots of links this time. I particularly recommend these Soviet technical magazine covers from the 1050s (courtesy of solarbird), and The Benjamin Franklin Effect (the power of cognitive dissonance) by way of naamah_darling. There's a longish quote in the notes that seems particularly applicable to me.

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