This is freaky, these two

This is freaky, these two news stories showed up together on CNN.com just now. They both seem like something you'd see on Six Feet Under or Dead Like Me. First, a tourist in Las Vegas was walking barefoot (Barefoot? On the Strip? Eww!) when she got electrocuted by a traffic signal wiring box. Next, a surgical resident is decapitated by a malfunctioning elevator. I tell you, it's not even safe to leave the house anymore. Particularly gruesome is the fact that there was a woman stuck inside the elevator with the severed head for 20 minutes. That's gonna leave a mark... Update: Alert reader Rowena Tan told me about this story, from yesterday. A long-haired carny (Gee, what are the chances of that? He should have stuck with a mullet) got his hair caught in a passing roller coaster car, and wound up dead. That gives us a trifecta of weird deaths in 24 hours. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

If you're my friend, you'll

If you're my friend, you'll link to me as such on Friendster. You can find me there at seth.bokelman@uni.edu.

I'm going back to my

I'm going back to my alma mater, Iowa State University, tomorrow, along with a couple of co-workers. We're going down there to look at their Kerberos implementation, because we'd like to use something similar here to tie our Active Directory to our ancient OpenVMS system that hosts the e-mail system for the campus. ISU has been using Kerberos for a long time, and hopefully we'll learn something. If I have time, maybe I'll stop in to harass John for a bit.

My friend Candace's grandfather disappeared

My friend Candace's grandfather disappeared in Cedar Falls last night. If you've seen this man, please contact the authorities. Update: He's now been found! Just got this message from Candace:

Good news! My grandfather has been found near Ft. Dodge. My parents are on their way to pick him up. Thank you for all of your thoughts, prayers and help in spreading the word. My family and I really appreciate everything you have done these past few days. Thanks again. Candace

This site is finally back

This site is finally back up and working. The lack of updates over the last few weeks wasn't intentional, just had one of those perfect storms of technical issues that prevented Blogger from connecting to my server via FTP. My ISP decided to change IP addresses on me at the same time I was upgrading my server from Windows 2000 to 2003. I have a static IP, but they split up my cable node, so I had to update. This left me with several different variables to rule out before I could track down the problem, and I finally just gave up, built a new server, and changed my whole network topography at home, but the result is I'm back online, with a much faster server than I had before. I've got a few kinks to iron out in my web site still, but at least the weblog is working!