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I had a marvelous weekend after a fairly heavy week, thanks to the lovely and talented Sue. We saw Boston crush (and be crushed by) some opposing teams in the refined sport of roller derby , which I confess may become the first sport I follow religiously. Though seeing it reminded me that I should take the time to experience more women’s sports. Aside from that, we watched more Carnivàle, which continues to be amazing (and creepy). If I lust after the Devil’s attire and deep, sonorous voice, does that make me evil?Sue really brightens my world, and is an incredibly fun human to spend time with.

Ok, maybe not earth-shattering. My main client, BostonNOW, went belly up two weeks ago, right before my planned vacation. After some scrambling, I’ve found some other consulting work, and am actively looking at w2-style employment options.

Vacation was nice - I learned a lot about a relationship that is important to me as well as learning a good deal about the kind of opportunities available in the SF Bay Area and my relative fitness thereto. There’s a couple of pending things in that area; more news when I have it.

The aforementioned consulting work is pretty awesome- it’s basically a project I’ve wanted to build myself, but someone else is paying me (sadly, this means that most of it is work-for-hire).

Because I lost a week of billed work in addition to the week I lost from being on vacation, I’m in a bit of scramble-mode to catch up with the bills. So if I’m terse or distracted for the next two weeks, just remember, it’s not you, it’s my creditors.

I’ve switched over to using google (via google apps) for my email, so I should be less of a sketchy mofo when communicating with me via email now that I don’t have to deal with 10k spam every day.

Still have to get around to updating this blog to 2.5 - I think I’m going to cross-grade to some hosted thingy at that time. I already tried crossgrading to wordpress.com but they require that they be the MX for whichever domain you point at them- which means either this thing moves to e.g. log.mindlace.net or I find another provider.

Every time I hang out with that kid I come out of it feeling rejuvenated and with a renewed faith in our ability to bring some measure of sanity to this benighted ball of rock. Plus he’s pretty hot.

I’m very spoiled by the virtual interface feature of Linux, and routinely have quite a few IP addresses associated with one virtual interface.

I’m building a cluster now, where all the machines have only private interfaces save one; obviously, I’d like the internal machines to be able to do their own updating, etc.

So I need to put in some sort of NAT. The problem is, iptables doesn’t recognize virtual interfaces, so you can’t NAT using the source/dest interface as your trigger. So here, then, is the simplest way I’ve found to set up SNAT on a virtual interface, assuming all your IP addresses are on eth0 and you are using a 10 network (in the example, 10.23.0.x) as your internal network:


cat 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING -d !10.23.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE


And yes, she qualifies.

All geeks in movies have a bunch of windows with text scrolling by regardless of what they’re doing. Therefore, one’s “hollywood geek quotient” is determined by how much scrollage is on one’s desktop.My current hollywood geek quotient is “high”.