I know some of my friends have been hounding me to post the pictures from my visit to DefCon 16. So, I have done so. And even organized them. You can see these pics at http://grover.open2space.com/defcon/index.htm.

For those who don't know what DefCon is....

I'm having a restless night and felt the urge to jot down some of what was going through my mind. For a change, this is a non-technical post. I tried to be brief, but well, here:

I am sitting here restless
feeling the need to be doing something,
lacking the focus to determine what.

Thoughts of reflection flowing through my mind
As I try to find something to distract me
long enough to fall asleep again.

Regrets of the past and present,
wondering if the right choices were made,
where I would be if another path were followed.

Lost or abandoned loves,
what could have been,

Well, that was lots of planning for what turned out to be a non issue. The server moved, but we only had a 3 hour window without Internet. We were close enough to our old location that we ended up with the same static IP addresses even. So all the planning and warnings were well, useless. Oh well, it gave me something to do (like I don't have enough on my plate already... :)

My server will be moving in the next day or two. So all the sites hosted on it will be offline for a short bit. This includes the following:

• http://grover.open2space.com (this site)
• http://www.open2space.com
• http://jquery.open2space.com ( the jQuery HowTo's )
• http://clug.open2space.com ( the clug robotics project )
• http://scriptgen.open2space.com ( the start of a entity relationship diagram modeller )

I'd like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays for the politically correct). May you and your families have a very pleasant holiday and Happy New Year!

I was looking for a theme to use on another site I was in the process of setting up (http://jquery.open2space.com - a site for jQuery HowTo's). I came across a nice theme called "tech" which I liked. Once I put this in place for the jQuery HowTo site, I found I REALLY liked it, so decided to switch Grover Ponders over to it.

There were some issues I needed to sort out, but these were minor CSS changes. The only thing I really have left to fix is to get my little logo showing up again. Hopefully I'll have that resolved by the time you read this.

It's been a while since I've posted here, time for a quick update on what I'm up to.

• I picked up an Asus EeePC and have been playing with that for a bit. It is a little small for everyday work, but I would have no hesitation using this in place of a regular laptop when I'm giving a presentation, or just need to jot down a couple of notes. This is an excellent merge between a PDA and a full fledged laptop. Except it can do near anything a full laptop can do.

A friend of mine sent me some pictures they managed to take during the Def Leppard concert. (I talked about the concert in my last posting.) Some of them are a little blurry, but they came out rather well considering the light levels of the Saddle Dome...

Just got back from the Def Leppard concert. What a great experience.

UPDATED: Added some pictures of the concert.

I have a Windows 2000 installation under a virtual machine (via VMWare Server). The virtual disk is 10 GB, as a single file. Lately I've been hearing lots of drive noises from my computer when I use this virtual machine. I finally remembered to take a look at the disk fragmentation (for the virtual machine) - only 45% fragmented. Ooops. So of course I start the required steps and began a defrag session.

Then I did it again.

And again.