The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I'm feeling rather blah today. Most of the day was ok. Just started feeling ill after dinner. :(

I'm starting to get better at webobjects. I almost having a working display app now for FG news. Thats usually where i start with webapps.

Had an idea tonight thats potentially rather good. Its a combination of cron + init rc startup + syslog + /etc configuration all in one unified service system.

What i'm getting at is that all the configuration would be handled by a central library or process that all the services would interact with. I'm not sure if i want to combine the services like apple did. I am not totally into that.

Its like netinfo + the new apple init & cron mix + syslog + a watchdog service to keep services running + a XML based registry like thing that would have a command line and graphical tool. The tool would allow you to configure servicies similar to teh IIS manager in win2k3 server and start/stop like the apple sharing tools in OSX. THere would be a CLI version that lets you stop start services and get status from the command line (since they would be started by the same root process they could KNOW if exits occured). Also, the logging could be better controlled. Its a BIG change to the fundamentals of UNIX. ITs almost nextish in design and based on the sun one directory system they use, netinfo and other apple tools, Microosft's innovative configuration system (they don't get enough credit for this.. )

I have more details to it but i feel like not sharing lol :)

Well caryn and i got back last night. Her relatives are freaks. My mom didn't come at all. She left a voice mail all crying.. i was a bit annoyed she didn't come. I wanted to take her out to dinner for mothers day but that didnt' happen since she avoided me. I ended up sending her an itunes gift certificate instead. I bought her a physical mothers day card but i couldn't even give that to her.. so i sent her an icard.

My dad was sick and he had a job to start yesterday. After the funeral, we got enough time to eat and then drive to lansing since thats where he was burried. I got an opportunity to see my great grandparents grave (ila's folks). Milo and Mary Charlotte Miller. He died in 1947 and she died in 1972. Both born at the end of the 1800's. He was a WWI private i guess.

Booner and carol had some party bs on mothersday so they got out of it and of course were busy so we couldn't stop by there house.. how convenient.

I finally got a new fucking pillow. The cats pissed on my pillow last year and i fucking steam cleaned it and sprayed it with fabreeze and fucking covered it up. It still fucking stank. I can't believe it took so fucking long to get a new one. Funny almost.. its when we went to new york and they were pissed at us.

The reason i brought that up is midnight was an asshole sunday night and bit me and hissed at me and jumped on me. I didn't get much sleep for the funeral. I didn't work today because i couldn't fucking move this morning.. too fucking tired.

More later.

Come to think of it i might as well add some more...

Caryn's cousin has a 4 year old named jordan. He's got some discipline problems, but seems like a nice kid. The kid was running around the funeral home a lot during saturday and caryn read to the kid. I helped him with a puzzle later. I intentionally spent some time with the kid since caryn and i have been debating on the issue of having children lately. I wanted to see if it would change my opinion in any way. I was also curious to see what caryn's experience would be. The experience didn't change either of our minds unfortunetely.

I'm sure i'll post on this again at some point...