Shilly chold...
The first snow fell here in the greater Helsinki area during the night. I was really bummed I couln't ride my bike to work. The bike is fine and I have all the necessary equipment, but I'm currently suffering the after effects of a slight cold I caught last weekend. Riding to work with only one nostril available for breathing (the other one being clogged with... well, you know) wasn't an option. Argh.
Name that 'puter
I sumbled across RFC 1178, Choosing a Name for Your Computer by Don Libes. While written in 1990, I think it might well be a rather useful document to a far greater audience today. Home networks are becoming more and more common, and every computer needs a name, after all.
I was glad to discover that my naming comvention was one of Libes' recommendations. My machines are named after characters in Norse mythology. My desktop machine is called Tor (Thor), my firewall is called Loke (Loki) and our 'DVD player' (actually a laptop without a screen) is called Oden. My workgroup is subsequently called Asgard.