Archive for February, 2004

Worm attack

February 17, 2004

Well we got hit by the Bagle.B worm today at the office. Our virus software was not updated yet before a user opened an email with an executable and ran it. No matter how often we tell our users not to open attachments, they still do. The upside to all this, is that with our [...]

Post Birthday

February 15, 2004

I know that I should have something deep or thoughtful about experiencing another birthday, but I don’t. We had a good day yesterday which included a nice long walk with Ellie outside. I got some new dress socks and shirts for Fern and Ellie. After Fern and I got Ellie to bed we watched Bandits. [...]

Wonderful Morning

February 14, 2004

We had a wonderful morning. Ellie woke up and was playing in her room (somehow we had turned her monitor off). But when I went in to get her she was happy. We played in her room for about 15 minutes, then we went into our room and played on the big bed for over [...]

New Pictures

February 13, 2004

Fern has recently added new pictures to our picture gallery, from the Valentine party at her school and from a field trip to a wildlife center.

Network Monitoring Progress

February 11, 2004

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m working on updating our network monitoring system. I made significant progress today, I’ve migrated about 60% of the existing configurations over and have also started adding additional items to be monitored as well. I spent most of yesterday building a template in Excel that allows me to easily generate the [...]

Whits end

February 10, 2004

It was a rough day/night with Ellie. She pee’d again on the couch, and then on her bed during her timeout for the first incident. Fern said the first time on the couch, might have been an accident as pee’d through her clothes (in the past she deliberately took her pants off). But the second [...]

GroupWise and Exchange 2003 Migration

February 10, 2004

Our work on migrating our email system for GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange 2003 has made some significant progress in the past couple of days. We now have email and calendar information flowing between the two systems. Our biggest step this week was testing how Internet email was handled. We first tested inbound Internet SMTP email [...]

Work updates

February 10, 2004

Sorry the updates have been slow lately. I’ve been busy, working late most nights so by the time I’m ready to leave it’s either too late for me to write an update or I’m just too tired.
I’ve been working to complete the migration of our network monitoring system to a new server. At the same [...]

The problem with Sunday Afternoon Naps

February 9, 2004

The only problem with Sunday afternoon naps is that you’re not tired at 11PM. We got Ellie asleep by 10:30, and I was tired but not sleepy so Fern and I watched a movie. Which means that I didn’t go to bed until 1 AM. That makes it really hard to wake up at [...]

Weekend Recap

February 8, 2004

I got some of the things done that I had hoped to. I spent some time working on Quicken, however I found one major error that is going to take me a little while to track down and update. I didn’t really get any cleaning done, but I did spend some time working on my [...]