Odds and ends

[mdlbear]

Sometime around midnight last night we apparently lost net connectivity. I say apparently because, even though I couldn't ping out (even after power-cycling the ADSL modem and bouncing the firewall software) things were back to more-or-less normal this morning. May have lost some mail, though. It does appear that the machine hosting my external web pages isn't responding to pings. And I've been having trouble with Big Brother, my monitoring program. Probably ought to switch to Nagios.

Aside to texxgadget -- did you leave your glasses at the Starport last night? They're on the breakfront at the end by the TV where you were sitting...