It's been a learning weekend for Blake today, specifically dealing with programming.

I now know enough about unix sockets to create my own server/client combo in perl. I also know a lot more about IRC (specifically the protocol) now as well. I pretty much whipped up a pretty powerful, yet simple, irc perl bot. The bot connects to an irc channel and waits for commands from the unix socket its listening on as well. The second component, is the server (botcmd) which is what actually sends the commands to the bot, via the socket.

One example of this set up would be to pipe netsaint messages (delivered via email with a .forward file similar to: "| botcmd.pl NSMAIL") to an irc channel where the admins frequent. This way we dont need to always check our email, or have a web browser open. This can be used for any sort of mail really, just need to code a parser for it.

So yeah, that was fun - i'm hoping I can release the code to the public so that others can use it :)

Less than thirty days until Whistler Trip! Yaay! The website is almost done. Waiting for Mark to put together an intro for the front page. Liz was supposed to come up with a list of songs for the soundtrack, but I dont think thats going to happen (more on that later). I just have some programming stuff to take care of (journal/databases). I plan on launching it a week before the big event :)

It's amazing how much we depend on roads. This whole weekend the DVP was closed for construction. I *think* they finally repaved/fixed the onramp to the DVP from the 404, where they had HUUUBE bumps. Mark and I will discover if they did or not, tomorrow on our way to work. Taking Baview to work sucks, but thats the best route when DVP is closed.

I'm actually noticing some muscle growth, yaaay working out! There are some areas that I need to work on. Specifically the torso region: abs and lower back. All those 180s (and possibly 360s?) is going to involve some heavy twisting :P

My room is still a fucking mess :/ I clean it up half-assed, then a few days later its a mess again. I think I am going to try to clean it up again tomorrow. Parents are getting pissed.

Flu shot on Wednesday, as well, having lunch with Nav. I havn't seen him for quite a while. It's going to be nice to catch up.

Juicy journal entry planned for Monday or Tuesday.

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