Reading my daily email, i stumbled upon an IETF draft released this week, that talks about a new proposal on some routing procedures draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt. Right about now you should be wondering what does this have anything to do with anything, specially the iPhone ? Well the draft, submitted by Cisco, has a few quirks in it! So, I ran a grep on it to see if i could find Apple’s precious baby:

$ grep iPhone draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt -n -A 1 -B 1

324-      be a host computer, a switch or router device, or any network
325:      appliance.  An iPhone.
326-
--
819-      the sum of all weight values MUST equal 100.  Going to buy an
820:      iPhone?  If a zero value is used for any RLOC weight, then all
821-      weights must be zero and the receiver of the Reply will decide how

Surprisingly the iPhone pops up twice. Talk about subliminal messages and trademark fights, or maybe just to check if anyone really reads some of these IETF drafts ?

Today i wrote probably the stupidest program i have ever done. After all these years using Linux (around 5 or 6 by now), with some knowledge of bash, python, sed, awk, of all the things in the world, i got the bright idea to write a C program to parse the text output of a program. Next time, i’ll stick nails in my forehead instead of doing a program of 3 or 4 chained for cycles, with scanf’s and printf’s.

The final solution ? 10 or 20 lines on a bash script will solve my problems. There goes 3 hours down the drain!

Well, it’s been a long road on getting a site up and running. While it’s easy to browse around personal webpages, templates and themes, choosing and designing one for yourself, well, it’s a nightmare. This is the best i could do! If i knew now the degree of unhappiness designing my webpage would cause me, i would have either payed a designer to do it, or have a white background with black foreground, mixed with bullet lists, simple design… But it’s here, enjoy it! Even if you don’t, I will!

This blog will be mostly about personal stuff. My thoughts on what i find, see and hear. It will be mostly in english, but if i have something to say to my countrymen, I’ll use my beautiful native language, good old Portuguese! But I’ll try to keep those posts in a different category, not to shock the foreign people

So here is the breakdown on the webpage :

• About me - This is a small bio, and a few references to what i do and where i live
• CV - This is a not so detailed list of what i have accomplished so far, work wise that is.
• Projects - Mostly what i do in my spare time. That means after my work time, leisure time, pointless time, procastination time, whatever… But it’s mostly Linux oriented, so i hope you enjoy it as much as I.
• Links - Friends, work, linux, you name it. If i like it, i will link to it, so you can find it.

And that’s about it for the first post. Feel free to drop in some comments. You can bash the layout or make useful suggestions. I’ll appreciate the attention. Bye now!