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Heanet, network planning, guitar stands, linguists, gmail 2006 March 21 0:29

Posted by diamond in : Random, Skynet , trackback

After 6 hours sleep last night, today encompassed a little over 8 hours and 270 miles of driving, at least 3 hours of which was in dublin traffic. On the bright side, i got to go on the skynet tour of heanet. For the record, here’s a quick rundown of the top 3 places in the world that i’d like to work for (in no particular order):

After the tour, i called into the main office area and chatted to davew and ann. Dave was furiously scribbling some network topology diagrams. I remarked that i’d seen a flash game on the net recently that looked very similar, but neither of them had seen it. A mail i sent them earlier:

Subject: important network planning tool we were discussing today
http://www.planarity.net/

Expect the productivity of heanet to take a slight nosedive (i wonder if that’ll show up in mrtg..).

I also had the opportunity to do some guitar-browsing in Music Maker. Noirin was with me, and when asked managed to suggest some truly awful guitars (though she will no doubt claim that they were just out of tune). At least she didn’t try to make me buy one of the bright pink flower-shaped ones. *shudder*. While there i decided to pick up a guitar stand. Having 3 guitars (2 in normal use) and one guitar stand isn’t a winning forumla. This is what i bought, the coolest guitar stand ever. You probably won’t appreciate it’s wonderfulness from that link, i’ve made a short video demonstrating it’s best feature.

I realised something about linguists today. I know three of them (that i can think of off the top of my head), and they’re 3 of my favourite people. I’m wondering is there some kind of correlation. Perhaps i should try and link a field-study on the subject into my masters…

I’ve been trying out gmail for the last few weeks (specifically, hosted gmail for nonado.net). I’m impressed at how well it’s coping with the amount of list mail i receive. From a quick check, i’ve gotten 1079 mails since march 6th, which is when i started using it. Once i set up the labels (17 currently) and filters (12 so far) i wanted, it’s been amazinly easy to keep up with all the mail. I’m really liking the way it does things, and it’s really hard to believe that it’s webmail a lot of the time because it’s faster than most email clients i’ve used. At this stage i’ve switched over to it for all my nonado mail. It’s a useful way to test it before i tackle the mammoth task that is taming my normal gmail account (which has had a copy of all my skynet mail for the last 2 years forwarded to it. that’d be 10932 so far).

And now this colourless green idea goes to bed to sleep furiously.

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