So, about two years ago, I added a bullet to my to-do list that read “Learn how the internet works, you poseur”. Recently, I did just that, by reading through the wickedawesome textbook Computer Networking: A top-down approach featuring the Internet, and building my own toy web server (which I’ll post up here sooner or later). This had some rather immediate ramifications.
For quite a while, I’d noticed that it was impossible to access my site from about one location in two. I had sort of forgotten about this until reading the DNS section in that textbook reminded me of the problem. So, I sent a quick email to my host, and discovered that the nameservers that I’d supplied to my registrar had been decommissioned over a year ago, and hadn’t received any official attention since. (That’s what I get for trashing all of their emails without reading them.)
So, I changed to the correct nameservers 24 hours ago, and things appear to be a lot smoother. I am officially a doofus.
Anyhow, I know things have been silent around here for a while. I’ve been up to a thing or two in the interim. I managed to pick up an M.Sc that I found lying around. I left Vancouver (*sniff*). I spent a couple of months in Europe. (Germany, Florence, Stockholm, to be a bit more precise.) Oh yes, I had a paper published. Oh, and I sorta won a short story contest in Sweden, that was neato. On a similar note, I hacked together an outline for a novel, although the actual product is far off.
Now I’m trying to be all entrepreneurial and stuff. I’m working on something with a couple of friends that I hope to launch within the next month, that should be of interest to Torontonians in general. But there’s still a great deal of Djangoing to go. So, to quote Jimi Hendrix: “Now if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way…”