Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays to those who find such a reference to Christianity offensive). I'm just relaxing at home with my wife. My little sister got me the coolest thing: a bobble-head doll of Ash (Evil Dead and Army of Darkness). If I had a digital camera I'd put a snapshot on my web site. I was going to get a digital camera, but I think I'll get more use out of a new TV. Mine has to be reset every now and then (the picture size gets messed up, probably cuts off a third of the image overall). Hope everyone is having a good time. Peace.

i think i fully explained myself already.

ok. so I can do `netstat -lntp` as root on linux to see all TCP ports in the LISTEN state and the process that owns them. I thought it'd be cool to write w script to just get the PID of the process owning a particular port. The netstat listing give the PID/process name (ie 23918/java). I think this confuses AWT. `netstat -lntp | grep : | awt -F ' ' {'print $7'}` prints nothing. Printing $1-$6 works fine, it's just $7 that doesn't print, and I think it's because of the /. (no pun intendeg there) So I though "what about SED instead of AWT?" Well truth is I don't know SED regexps well enough. I tried s/^.* (\d)+\/.*$/$1/ since I think that's what I'd do in perl. But I don't think it liked the parens. Anyhoo. Anyone care to help me out?

Since I've been steadily increasing how frequently I comment, and even have a couple friends/fans (w00t) I figured I start leaving the occasional journal entry too. You know those CDW commercials shot from Fred's point of view as he walks through the halls and people ask stupid questions? I'm Fred (as I'm sure many other readers are). I work at a virtual company, nearly everyone telecommutes. We have a small office with like 4 people and a DSL line. This one guy keeps moving stuff (including the DSL equipment) and then they all call me when it doesn't work. If I had a nickel for every time he's unplugged the DSL modem from the phone jack, I might be able to afford a phone call. Have a good one. ;)

I already have a blog.

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