Wesley's Tool-Box

As I have said before, 2009 was going to be a massive trainwreck. To prove I was right, the current Korean government headed by Lee Myung-Bak ('the rat', as many of us call him because he was inaugurated on the year of the rat, 2008) outdid themselves today by virtually murdering the former president Roh Moo-Hyun.

Late Mr. Roh committed suicide this morning by throwing himself off a cliff near his retirement home. Ever since he stepped out of office last year, he had been up against a barrage of efforts led by the current government to tarnish his reputation and undo everything he had stood for. It must have been incredibly frustrating and tiring all this time. Obviously, he was driven to death. An indirect murdering of character. There is no other explanation.

And yet, the police is preventing people from gathering around memorial altars set up at various places right now because 'it may turn into an illegal riot.' Just... wow. This government has a knack for pouring oil on fire. We can't even mourn for him?

This... this is why you shouldn't let a rat run the country. I think it's time for a rat trap.

It's been about a month since the news of the upcoming baby. Yesterday's check-up confirmed that the mom and the baby are both healthy. The ultrasound scan now shows the baby to be about an inch long - big enough to see major body parts. I hope all goes well. The expected delivery date is still unchanged at September 20.

Well, I didn't expect it to be this fast. In fact, I hoped for this to happen exactly a year later. But hey, it's a fantastic news nonetheless. My wife Sarah tried the home pregnancy test and it came out positive, so we went to the local hospital to make sure. The photo above is the ultrasound scan... and she definitely has the baby.

I may post updates as this story develops.

One week I leave the server let roam free, it goes down in 8 hours. Heh...
Sorry for all those of you who tried to access the website this week. I've gotten it running again now.

I have relieved the old G4 Mac mini of its Tool-Box.info web server functions for the final time on 7PM, July 10, 2008, as all my websites have finished transitioning to iMac. The Mac mini faithfully served as the server for Tool-Box.info for 1100 days - just over 3 years.

Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever owned a system lasting that long fully intact in my 20 years of computing life. Emphasis on 'owned', since some systems that I gave away to other people have lasted longer. The things I keep around rarely last over a year. One big exception was this Altec Lansing speaker set that I kept around for 9 years until iMac's internal speakers made it unnecessary. Anyway, the Mac mini was originally bought to be modified into a portable system. But in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't butcher it as a part of my ongoing experiment with small form factor computers. I might have moved back to Windows world after tinkering with it for a couple of months if that happened.

Instead, the system served me well as a solid desktop Mac platform - it took me a while to get accustomed to the Mac way of things, but once I cleared the entry barrier, I found more interesting things to do with it, especially because OS X is a UNIX. Using a Mac became part of my life and Mac mini was no longer just some compact computer to toy around with - it became my primary system. It became my web server.

It had an excellent run throughout all these times, and I hope it will find new purposes (or perhaps a new owner) eventually, since it's working fine just as ever.