So,

I caved. I went to Lowes with the parts in question, hoping to find a new compression nut of some sort. Alas it appears as though the connection is 5/16 " instead of the typical 1/4 " used in common plumbing. Therefore, until I can find someway of fixing the handy dandy espresso machine, we purchased a $30 replacement. It's not too shabby. OH, and we finally found a stainless steel milk frothing pitcher. Those little guys are really hard to find. We went to Wal-Mart, Coffee Shops, Target, and a couple other stores in hopes of finding the elusive pitcher. Bed Bath & Beyond has them if you need one. In the meantime, a Pyrex 2 cup measuring cup works nicely.

BUT!!! even though I've given up on it for now, I'll still look for some way of fixing it. Anyone know of espresso machine parts dealers?

Today is the first annual neighborhood pot luck. We've lived here for 3+ months and still don't know anyone, other than the Kovacs and Mehlbergs. So this neighborhood pot luck is designed to fix this. Unfortunately its 94 degrees (F)...

I've got to get back to developing Cire, I helped design the ncurses interface for it. It's about time I put some of my new security knowledge into practice and add in support for encrypted diary entries.

"Nemesis is like a dog that's not housebroken" -- jabbey
"It leaks all over the place?" -- jvaught
"Oh yeah" -- jabbey

So as the development project has been coming to a close, I've been interested in the amount of memory that is leaked. I've written quite a few programs but never one where I actually cared about this. In all my other programs, the process would start, do its analysis, and then sign off leaving the OS with this task.

So a quick glance at the memory usage told me that tools on average were leaking about 20MB of memory.. Yeah.. and since this program runs as a server, it's expected to be running a long time. If it were 4k leaked per tool run I might not care but 20MB is a bit too much. So I've been spending my time looking for the mallocs, news, and such, and matching them up with a respective free, delete, or what have you.

Got to demo the project yesterday. That was fun. Since I've become this seemingly autonoumous conduit of development, right I've been working hard, I had a great deal of confidence in the little package. I was not disappointed, and furthermore, I believe others were impressed.

After much debate with Jim Vaught and Mike Mehlberg, I've determined that the problem is what we've suspected.

As you can see, the tubing is crimped into place. The fitting set in the upper half of the picture is the fitting that was attached to the pressure chamber. If you click the image you can see how the crimp should appear. Now I'm at an impasse:

I know what's wrong, I know what needs to be done to fix it, but I'm not sure how to fix it...

I want to get the tube back in its fitting, but I can't force it in the fitting, I can expand the fitting but I'm afraid that I'll damage it further. Alas, I'm considering finding an alternative solution. Basically I'll need to find a pressurized fitting that can attach to both sides, and still be able to cope with intense heat and pressure. Tomorrow I'll have more answers.

Work today was as productive as I expected. Looks like our alpha release might actually meet expectations. Shhhh don't tell anyone. However as the project winds down, I feel that I've learned a great deal and am eager to apply this knowledge to the next phase of development.

Sebastian was particularly fussy today. Once you'd play with him he would calm down, but if he had to sit still he'd be rather unpleasant. This does not bode well. It seems the little man has already begun his trek to independence. Though, of course, he is entirely dependent on us, his defiance to authority is steadily increasing. It's really interesting though, watching his reactions to "NO" develop. At first he'd quickly pout, but already he's started looking back at us like, "Do something". Alas we'll have start discipline soon. He exhibits the ability to understand basic communication, and as such he'll understand basic discipline.

What a lovely weekend.

Saturday was a wonderful day of Cinnamon Struesel Muffins, Moe's Burritos, and last but not least Taste of Tippecanoe!. Yes Saturday was indeed a day of gluttony.

Sunday, Father's Day, was kicked off with some tasty waffles (do I have an eating problem?), followed by church, errands, and such. Got a couple cute daddy son books, and ironically a book on gourmet coffees. The cards were all very nice filled with loving messages. That afternoon, however, my wife unleashed a ruthless thrashing of top notch UNO playing upon my mom and I. Kristen won 6 rounds in row. Then came Phase 10, where I thought she had my mom and I again, but in the last hand I managed to meld phase 10 along with Kristen and we pretty much tied.

:: She claims I won ::

Monday has been pretty low key. Got on another hyper productive kick. I was streaming code out of my hands. It was great! Got loads developed today. Hope this streak continues deep into tomorrow. Also the last hour of the day was spent solving a crypto problem. Well more like a problem on establishing trust with simplicity but robustness. Sebastian was a cute monkey this afternoon. Got to chase him about the house.

And so it begins...

I thought that repairing the Espresso Machine would be a simple task .

Thus far it has proven to be less than that.













Last night was good though. Watched Harry Potter 3 , well parts of it. Had the Mehlbergs and Cochrans over. We all got tired around 9:30p. So we made it halfway through the movie..

Getting back to work on the development project here at work. Supposed to code freeze tomorrow.. I hope so, but I'm not quite sure if its possible? We'll see.

Back to work...

Our development project at work is coming along nicely. Finally got the data back that I needed. Still waiting on supplies from our customer for our other project.

Been bit torrenting the goo out of Fedora Core 4. I'll probably get around to installing it soon.

Everything's fine at home, except I need to mow, and the espresso machine is on the fritz.

Turns out frogs will try to escape even if water is slowly heated, and the only difference between a bean and a pea is the shape. (peas are spheroid)

Work finished faster than I thought.

Tonight we finished with BLTs for dinner, a watered lawn and 100 minutes of Mostly Classical.

Sebastian has become quite the little mimick. There's three cues that I can give him and he'll mimick them right back, pretty impressive for a 10 month old.

Looks like everyone has turned in. About that time. G'night!

BLAST!

Still working...

Church was good today, the sermon was all about compassion. It's tricky keeping Sebastian occupied and listening to the service. He was a good boy otherwise, very cheerful and overall happy.

Hmmm

Apparently as soon as Kristen leaves anywhere, Sebastian and I kick it into bachelor mode. Today is mad cleanup of the house. whooops. After that Terry (and crew?) are coming over to break bread. Also we'll get to clean his cool air intake.

Then after all that madness, my mom and Kristen will be back in the good old state of Indiana. Well, back to folding clothes.

So, ever since my ISP started being mean about enforcing their Acceptable Use Policy (rightly so [sort of]) I've been looking for alternative solutions to hosting my website(s).

It all started when I got an email from my ISP saying we've detected you have servers open. They went so far as to tell me what ports and when they scanned them. So I captured their IP in my logs. Then it was a minute with firewall configuration and suddenly, they would never see me again. I logged any attempts from them to see if they would "check up" on me. Alas this never happened.

Then I get a mailing. The ISP is going under "major infrastructure" work. This meant that they are no longer separating their networks into subnets. So I could wait for them to scan me again, block them; block all network traffic on those ports from their network; or find an alternative. Ultimately the alternative was found.

My good friend Terry has graciously given me a place to host the site on his box in Chicago. This is great. When I was hosting the site I couldn't really upload fast enough. I mean it was enough for my family, but I still thought it was too slow. Now that's all taken care of. Thank you Chicago Community Colocation Project.

Oh and I'm no longer breaking my AUP. Hurray.

(sort of)

Migration from old to new:

Jun 11 2005
Ah Saturday. Sebastian is taking another nap. He's been a pretty good boy today. He's really active making a mess for me to clean. Heh. The house is pretty much a wreck. I should really clean it up before Kristen gets home tomorrow... and do laundry.. and dishes... and mow? Bah. Watching Family guy right now. Funny show. Went on a walk with Sebastian a couple hours ago. He is really close to walking. He doesn't like being on his own tho. Obviously. But he sure likes to pull things off of shelves, out of cabinets, and such. Sounds like Kristen has been having a nice time in Charlotte.
Jun 10 2005
Wow. Work has exponentially increased. Everyone is going 4+ different directions. This is interesting. But we still seem to be maintaining. Currently waiting for a long job to complete. Wife headed down for NC today. She'll return on Sunday with my mom. It'll interesting having mom live with us for a couple weeks. Having a live-in babysitter will be great! I may update more today...
Jun 9 2005
Hello, this is the hidden page. I decided to start yet another blog/webdiary etc.
So just got back from San Francisco. Wow. What a trip! On Monday boss says hey you're going to SF, I'm like ok. We get on a 7a flight Tuesday which means we woke up a 2a. Then on Wednesday we hit a 11p flight. Yeah, anyway suffice to say I'm tired. We did learn alot of great things though and thats always a good thing. I met some pretty cool people. The food was fantastic. Its so much better when you aren't paying.
Thats about all for now.