My allegiance to Apple is wavering. I came home to find my home wireless network down. I walked over to my Apple Airport Basestation and saw that instead of emitting reassuring green lights, it was alternating between lighting the left red light and then all three amber lights. I searched on apple’s website for troubleshooting information without any luck. Finally, (thanks again to Google) I found these 3 reports of Basestations that had bit the dust shortly after warranty expiration:

• The first casualty
• O’Reilly Report
• Another one - Dead link

Mine failed 15 months after it’s arrival on my doorstep. Conspiracy?

Anyway, it served me well for 15 months, but I decided to go with the SMC Barricade Wireless Broadband Router for my next basestation. It has 3 wired ports, acts as a print server and has a greater range (although that’s not really too important in my shoebox here). It’ll be here sometime next week.

So I’ve gone from having rock-solid wireless access to a lightning fast cable internet connection 2 months ago to a wired connection to a 56K dialup modem today. I can see the internet gods up there laughing at me :-)

Gerry and Kim got married on Saturday!!!! Video at 11.

I fixed some security issues in the OpenACS photodb module.

My cousin Girish was interviewed for an article about hormone replacement in heart disease on Rx.com. Unfortunately Rx.com has gone kaput and the author doesn’t want me to publish the article here, so it’s no longer available. Take my word that it was interesting and Girish sounded really smart!

Life has been moving too quickly for me to document my menial existence. Check back again soon when my existence is not so menial! In the meantime, here’s a Cliff Note’s version (may Cliff rest in peace) of the past 5 months (in no particular order).

• I left medicalrecords.com
• I began doing freelance web development
• I finished a Palm-based interface for The Answer Page
• I began moonlighting at MIT’s After Hours Medical Center, thus getting in touch with my “medical” side again.
• I’ve begun helping out with the OpenACS 4 project and have so far ported the Notes module, Download module and Ticket-Tracker-Lite module.
• My grandmother passed away at the age of 91 on March 31, 2001. She was a strong vibrant woman and remained that way up until her passing.
• My cousin Deepu matched at UCSF for internal medicine!!! What a stud! Of course, I’m only saying that so he’ll let me stay with him when I visit SF :-)
• My cousins and I went sea kayaking in North Carolina and survived! Physical effort, natural beauty and comraderie combined to make it a perfect weekend away from the daily grind.
• We celebrated my roommate Gerry’s bachelor party in Miami. Enough said ;-)
• My brother Manu got a sweet job at Harley Davidson!!! He’ll be travelling to places like Japan, Brazil and Australia and taking his little brother with him (hint, hint)
• A bunch of other stuff happened, but my fingers are getting tired.

I finished porting the homepage module from ACS to OpenACS. Actually, it had already been ported, but the ACS version changed substantially, so I guess I merged the new ACS version with the old OpenACS version. Anyway, it works! Here’s the file -> homepage.tar.gz

I found a Y2K1 bug … well, not really, but I found and fixed a minor problem in the OpenACS toolkit that only occurs on the first of every year.

I’ve coaxed my wireless card to work on LinuxPPC. Read how I did it. This link is now gone because it’s obsolete…. vinod.

My cousin Deepu and I (plus about 30,000 or so other people) ran the Chicago Marathon. Cross that off my life’s to-do list!

My roommate Gerry has somehow tricked Kim into getting engaged! :-)