I took this picture today on my way home from work. GOOD LORD IT’S NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

Ok, I’m not so sure about the iTunes phone. It doesn’t look highly impressive. I was hoping for a nice slick phone with a highly advanced UI based on the iPod’s OS. Instead it looks like just another Motorolla phone with an iPod-alike music interface. Although the web page does say “The first mobile phone with iTunes,” seeming to imply that there will be others to come along. This is good.

I just used a 6502 microprocessor to dig a splinter out of my finger. I’d post pictures but it really wasn’t that exciting.

Today didn’t start out that great. We had another SYN flood attack that took the network down momentarily. Things are getting better though. The new firewall is able to identify the attack after a fairly short ammount of time and respond. I still can’t figure out exactly why it keeps going down though. It’s running out of resources somehow, but I don’t know what. To that end I’ve been playing with SNMP all day.

I must admit, some of the keys on this white keyboard get pretty fraking dirty.