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We went grocery shopping today and in the spirit of stepping up to the plate, I bought some pineapple Tang. Add ice and vodka and you have my prototype for the Tropical Astronaut. A little bit further along in my … Continue reading →

So, we’re about a month into our stay here. I know this for certain because our cellphone suddenly stopped working yesterday, meaning that we need to recharge our Clic card. Anyhow, I thought I’d post a list of some observations … Continue reading →

I just happened upon a nice bit of copy from O’Reilly’s Mac OSX Panther in a Nutshell. It is in reference to using the -s flag with the sudo command from the terminal prompt: This convenience can go wrong for … Continue reading →

I’ve put up our our little wedding website. So, with one notable exception, I’ve finished everything on this week’s to-do list. Once again that’s www.plutino.net/wedding. And I just realized that the content logic code I used is the same stuff … Continue reading →

In one of her early posts, Amy mentioned the Saad Hariri political posters featuring Rafik as a ghostly figure in the background. I was going through our photos and I stumbled across this one, which is hands-down my all-time favorite.

Yesterday I opted not to go to the beach with Amy in favor of futilely emailing, IMing, and paying visits to my ISP in hopes of getting them to re-open port 10000, by beloved VPN via TCP port. In the … Continue reading →

I haven’t written any posts here since Monday, because I’ve mostly been dealing with continuing continual connectivity problems. Consequently, the content of my musings hasn’t exactly been family-fare. I can sum up the past week thusly: Secure VPN Connection terminated … Continue reading →

Today we were on our way out in search of a gas bottle for the grill and we stopped by our landlord’s apartment to ask where might be a good place to find such an item. Osman said, “You need … Continue reading →

In the spirit of true bloggery, I present this week’s Top 5 To-Do Tasks: Get a propane tank for our “new” gas grill (many, many thanks to Kelly and Nazih). Get fast internet, VPN, and remote desktop working simultaneously and … Continue reading →