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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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6:43a - Wet white stuff
Not nine inches as predicted, but maybe there's five new inches of very wet snow on the ground. Allowing for the amount of it that melted into slush during the first few hours, perhaps the total would have been seven or so if it hadn't been so warm. In any case, it's a mess again. The sticky snow clings to everything, so trees and shrubs are quite pretty. Walking and driving in it, though, is unspeakable.
My BOINC score broke the 100,000 point barrier yesterday, apparently. Still clunking along.
In other geek news, I succeeded in getting Echolink to work as of yesterday. This means, in theory, that I am no longer as isolated from internet audio connections. Skype doesn't work over my tiny bandwidth, but Echolink does. It's a network limited to licensed radio amateurs only, but does offer quite a lot of flexibility. I can listen in to repeaters and audio conferences anywhere that there's an Echolink node, and I can talk back too. Provided, that is, I can get stupid Windows to recognize my headset. It does that on one out of two bootups it seems. The software of course is Windows only, so I have to run XP under VMware in order to use it. After sufficient fiddling to get all the connections working, then everything is functional.
current mood:  dorky (comment on this)
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