I’m looking for a Linksys WRT54G (or WRT54GS) Router with a hardware version from 2 through 4 if anyone has a spare sitting around that they can part with. Contact me and we can discuss payment and other details.

The reason I’m looking for such a specific version number is that I’m planning on putting LINUX on it and playing with some embedded software for it, and the hardware on those versions will support the kind of work that I’m planning on doing.

Lauren and I recently decided to pick up three recycled canvas EcoBags to go shopping with instead of using plastic bags. After talking about our impact on the environment by just shopping every week and consuming plastic bags, we decided that using canvas bags would help to minimize our impact on this earth.

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Well, both my website and my Flickr pages have been noticeably quiet for a while. My only excuses are that I’ve been trying to keep my computer turned off more often (in an attempt to save power and be more green) and I’ve been trying to get back into my old habit of voraciously reading anything I can get my hands on. At last count, I’ve read 5 books in the last month and a half and am in the middle of 3 other books as I type this.

In the void, Lauren’s mom stopped out to visit for a week and Lauren and I also took a trip back east to visit my parents for both vacation and to get more wedding plans set in stone. Lauren toured the campus with her mother and I took a few days off to show her Mt. Lemmon and the Desert Museum. The trip back east was great; we spend a lot of time at their lake house and did everything from visit relatives, to hike at the local waterfall, to just relaxing. We went to take some July pictures of the wedding location to get ideas for next year and, at one point, Lauren took my sister dress shopping.

I’ll be posting tons of pictures to Flickr soon, so be on the look out for pictures of anything from our kittens, to a trip to the Sonoran Desert Museum, to my poor attempts at catching star streaks, to me playing with some new macro filters for my camera, to the Bushkill falls hike.

I’m hopping to get better about actively blogging at least once a week… we’ll see how that works out.

Tomorrow, in an effort to gain attention and support for their misfortunes with recent legislation that will make it significantly more costly to broadcast music across the internet, many webcasters will be shutting down their service or will not broadcasting music at all.

The only thing the average netizen can do is to contact their local Congressman and get them to support H.R. 2060, the “Internet Radio Equality Act.”

I, for one will severely miss SomaFM if it is to be shut down. To put the law into perspective, SomaFM will have to pay $600,000 retroactively for last year’s broadcasts instead of the $20,000 they were supposed to owe.

In the next few days, I’m going to either write or call my local Congresswoman and ask her to support the bill. Anyone reading this should do the same!

UPDATE: visit SaveNetRadio.org for more information.

[Via Slashdot [Via Lawbean]]

Well, it is finally 100% complete that I’ve moved from my old web host to some space under my buddy AJ’s hosting account at Dreamhost.com. I transfered all of my web content and email information a number of weeks back and the the fax order to cancel service with my old account went through a few days ago.

The impetus for moving was a history of low service quality, months of service outages, and a shoddy backup system that left me with segments of my data (mostly email content) corrupted numerous times over the course of three years. I guess that’s what you get when you go with a webhost that is named after the cost of your service plan. I’m not going to name then so as to not give them any free PR, but I’ll tell you that it only cost me four bucks a month for hosting.

Anyway, the move went off without a hitch and I haven’t had any issues with the new host yet.