Sink problems.

So, I'm awake again. taxlady isn't, but I suspect she'll be getting up in an hour or so too. Then I think I'm gonna try and convince her to take a trip with me to the nearest hardware store, despite the -40C temperatures we've been having. We now have a huge backlog of dirty dishes, because I'm missing a pair of 20 cent washers that prevent water spurting everywhere when I do a load of dishes. And, of course, because of the weather, and the fact that the plumber who installed the kitchen sink was a moron, the drain pipe has frozen solid (It should never have been placed uninsulated against an outside cinder-block wall...)

Normally, we fix that by bailing out the sink and pouring hot water down it. Repeat two or three times and the sink eventually thaws. Draino also works, but I fear what it does to PVC pipes.

In the meantime I'm going to go back to struggling with Apache's mod_rewrite engine. Its doing things <i>wrong</i> and I can't seem to get enough diagnostics running to find out WHY. (Stupidly of me, all of this is merely so that Apache can correctly support multiple sub-domains under one IP address, for the occasional first-draft http 1.0 browser out there. We're talking Netscape 1.0 and earlier)

But first, I think, there shall be coffee (or tea -- the teas already made, but cold, but could be nuked...) and a shower and then probably some brekkies...

Worth Reading.

Just read an interesting essay by a Computer Scientist trying to understand Literary Criticism and Postmodern Deconstrutionism, and his explanation of whats going on there.

Lego Master Builder.

So, apparantly LEGO is looking for a new master builder, and sideshowjamie is now a contener. You can read about it here.

Just a spoonful of Liver...

... helps the candy go down, in the most disgusting way!

So, I'm absolutely Brillig!  I managed to get the mod_rewrite rules all working the way they should, so now I'm not to the next big task, building a dynamic website with static caching and URL path decoding...

But first, my SO has requested that I cook up some Bacon and Eggs for the two of us. I've not done that the last few days because Shreddy broke our electric skillet, but I had forgotten that we had a second, somewhat older skillet that should do the job just as well.