Posted on 06-30-2008 under general, site updates

After almost a month of having an expired domain name, I’m back :)

And I’m bringing a boat load of worries with me. For starters, when the heck am I going to be called for my visa interview. !*&@^ it. At the current rate, I’ve already missed my orientations, and am about to miss the first week of classes! Secondly, one of the subjects I wanted to take was already full, and I had to waitlist! Worst part is, it won’t be offered till next fall!!! Strangely, more people are getting onto the waitlist after me! Must be a really popular class.

On a lighter note, I wrote a little script to restart my Internet connection if it goes down. Which it seems to be doing a lot of. Worldcall’s customer service is as helpful as a soggy pile of wood. Getting a word through their “restart your computer” mumbo jumbo is just impossible. I’m running Linux for crying out loud, and no I can’t restart my computer every time your cables twist up! Anyway, so I’ve been testing the script (which I’ve aptly named ‘ifrestart’). And it seems to be doing a good job. Earlier, I would come home from work, and find that the computer was offline the whole time I was gone. It got to the point, it would disconnect, just as I stepped out. (My modem is alive I tell you!)

After much cursing and banging my fists, I realized that that was no use, (thats why neanderthals went extinct). And I wrote a shiny new script. This one taking a lot more time, effort and skill. Woohoo! I’m getting better :)

Whoa! Guess what? Worldcall disconnected me again :) Right while I was typing this post. Just beautiful.

I’ll be posting about the script soon. Right now, I’m gonna chill.