I haven't updated my phlog in a while, 
but I have been reading yours if 
you're on any of the major 
aggregators.

Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law 
SparkIPX. I hope she's improving. 

For the Palm fanatics out there, 
someone posted a story on the Hacker 
News about a web rendering proxy 
server that you might be interested 
in: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

Downloads are here: 
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/

Otherwise, it's been an eventful 
couple of weeks. The first inspection 
on the new bathroom project went well. 
Now I'm almost finished wiring the 
room. In the meantime, the plumber 
came and ran a new main supply line to 
the house, because ours was galvanized 
and the cost of insuring the 
galvanized line was ridiculous. So we 
replaced it.

It was a day of digging and then 
backfilling. Since it's Canada, the 
line has to be buried almost five feet 
down to keep it below the frost line. 
I'm still sore. The plumber pressed 
his kids into service and none of 
them got up until late the next 
morning, apparently. 

Afterward we cut the old galvanized 
line to see inside (they're supposed 
to rust from the inside out, 
deteriorating from within, so that 
they break when you least expect it). 
It was rusting a little on the inside, 
but the walls of the pipe were as 
thick as the day it was made. Hmmph. 
I've paid insurance companies a lot of 
money for nothing over the past 12 
years (only a couple of companies were 
willing to insure me with the old pipe 
in the house and they were charging at 
least $300 extra). You can bet I'm 
going to shop around for the best deal 
in the fall.

On a positive note, the new supply 
line is a lot larger than the old one 
and we have a much better water 
pressure now. My wife loves it. 

I feel like I phlog about the most 
mundane things. At least it's not 
all tech. Perhaps cat will be happy.

One last thing. Isn't it funny how 
gopher activity seems to go in waves? 
There are weeks when it seems like 
almost everyone is posting multiple 
times (sometimes more than once a day) 
and then weeks when it gets very 
quiet. I'm intrigued by that because I 
have no idea why it happens.

Cheers, phloggers. Take care.