PJ Waskiewicz's Batcave

Been awhile since I gave an update...well, I am planning on making some updates to the overall format of the site. I don't want to go cookie-cutter with some template-based thing, but I also want something a bit more maintainable. Anyways, I've moved my internet service to Verizon FiOS. I have to say I'm really impressed with the network performance. Still working through the new TV guide on the cable box. More to come soon...

I have finally gotten the new hardware up and running. Linus kinda bit the dust, and I have been too lazy to rebuild the part of the system that exploded. Well, here it is, in all its wonderful glory! Hopefully now that it's running again, I'll make good on my empty promises and actually make some updates to the site. Stay tuned.

Well, I've certainly been detached from the site for awhile now. This is something I plan on fixing here in the near future. I have a large amount of pictures to post that I keep promising to do, so I think it's about time to just do it. That's just about all I have to say for now. /out

Such frustration...I hate people who try and mess with websites, buffers, etc. I just noticed a bunch of crap in the feedback area of people trying to relay mail off the website submission form. That's all been cleaned up, and if anyone tries that again, I will find you and make your life very miserable. Let this be your warning - I do have your IPs now, and if I see this crap again, you will be taken care of.

Just checking in for now...I've started the new job, sat in the new cube on Friday, and am thoroughly enjoying it so far. Things should start getting interesting tomorrow.

Some new things are coming to the site in the next day or so, in the form of more pictures! I have new pictures of my motorcycle after adding the lower fairing (and the lowering and tank bag are in the picture). It looks ridiculous, and rides so nicely. I also have pictures of the fireworks Tommy and I blew up in Canada over July 1st (Canada Day). Big fun..so stay tuned. /out

It's done!! My office is packed up and ready to be moved. The movers will be carting my stuff tomorrow morning, and then after tomorrow, it's off to new things. I'll probably be able to hand in my pager tomorrow as well...we'll see. I've had a good run where I'm at, but it's time to move on and see what other things Intel has to offer.

On a side note, the homebrew front has been in full swing. IPAs, Weisse, Wit, Porters, and Chimays are making appearances in chez PJ. This is a good year for beer here (the sentence popped into my head, rhymed so well, I had to put it in....sorry).

One more note to would-be riders: when your jacket, pants, and gloves are black, and you're riding in the summer, it doesn't matter how fast you go. YOU WILL BOIL. Needless to say, I've been rather warm in all my gear. But better to be safe than sorry, and in the process, maybe lose about 10 pounds while you ride. Until then...out.

Oregon summer is here in all its splendor and heat. The weather has been, for the most part, in the upper 80's to 90's, sensa humidity. However today is in the 70's, which I tell you is not unwelcome. The new motorcycle has been treating me very well; it had its first maintenance yesterday.

The only other exciting piece of news I have is I start my new job (still at Intel) next week. Gone are the days of carrying a pager; gone are the days of sitting under the shadow of both the fab and my old group in automation. I get to leave behind all the crap that happened in that building, and start anew. Happy doesn't begin to describe how I feel. Then again, life can be devious, and things may turn out to be roses when I move. But I have a good feeling about this new endeavor, and I think it will work out just fine. Until then...

Headin' east. That's right, I'm headin' east. I'll be back in PA for a few days next week, then to Canada to enjoy the relaxation of vacations, and then back to PA for a day. I'll be poking around W-B and areas on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, so email me if you want to see me!

Holy crap! What's this? PJ updated his resume? Yes sir folks, I've actually pieced together what I've done in the recent few years and summed it all up in my updated resume. Have a peek and see what I've been wasting...er...spending my time on recently.

In honor of Memorial Day, I have posted pictures of the September 11th Healing Field I took last May. It is a humbling experience to see these pictures, but to honor those lost and who continue to fight for us, it is more than worth it. See it here.

A flip of the wrist, a squeeze of a clutch, and vroom! You're off! Ladies and gentlemen, the long-awaited motorcycle has landed. I'm now a proud owner of a 2005 Suzuki SV650S. Pictures can be found on the Photos page. I should have some additional photos soon, including some of your fearless rider in his gear. Until then...

The air is crisp, the view beautiful, and the city is asleep...what? Where the heck am I, and what time is it?!?! Ah...Seattle in the morning. Not only have I gone to bed before the wee hours of the morning, my body arose voluntarily before 7am. This is a day to remember. A person's body and mind do such different and weird things when they're on vacation. Then again, staying on the 22nd floor of the Westin with a view of Lake Union doesn't hurt. Well, it's still not 7am yet, and it's time to go get some breakfast. Until next time.../pj

I've finally reworked the photos page a bit. I've added some pictures of the new beer machine in my house. I'll be adding more content soon, like Crater Lake pictures, some camping stuff, Multnomah falls, and more home brewing pictures. I have tons of pictures that I've formatted, but haven't added yet. Stay tuned.

Well, someone wanted some content. Let's see...snow, snow, snow! We've had a horrible ski season this year, but mid to late April, and boom! The skies have opened up over Mt. Hood. The ski season lives on, although finding the time and energy to make it up there is becoming increasingly more difficult. C'est la vie. Other than that, nothing is terribly exciting. I hope this is enough for now.

The thread of my random babbles and news usually has some humor to it, albeit it can be black humor. Today I wish I had some of that. This is not at all related to Valentine's Day; rather, I learned today that a wonderful person and close friend of mine and many has passed away. Jessica Webb was found Feb. 10th in her truck in Pennsylvania, no longer with us. I don't know details, nor do I want to. All I know is her family and friends no longer have her here to enjoy. I only pray that God has taken her to a more peaceful existence, and we can all see her when we pass on. Please keep her family and friends in your prayers and thoughts. Rest in peace Jessica.

Poof! Up goes the IP address. Thanks Comcast; I haven't had an IP change for nearly 2 years now. Surely it was time. So for those of you who got bounced email, or couldn't get to this stellar site, that was why. A DNS tickle, a firewall boot, and voila.

On unrelated news (maybe related to poof!), I had a nice little fire in the kitchen recently. Nothing damaged, except for a pot, but the house smells like burnt metal. Not a pleasant odor, let me tell you...but all is well. We need the little things of excitement to keep us going I guess.

Hardware. New hardware. Hardware that no longer works with the newer drivers. ARGH! An ancient soundcard in linus seems to not like the newer sb/sb_lib driver in the kernel rev I'm running. I'm going to be taking linus down tonight (the server this is on...) to replace the sound card with something a bit more recent. I'm also taking the outage opportunity to upgrade the kernel on woodstock, which is in desparate need of an upgrade...anyways, outages coming tonight. I think linus needs a vacuum cleaning too. Dusty dusty! /pj

361 days. That is how long linus and woodstock were up. 361 days. Then a power substation in North Plains, OR, decides to "blow up" and put power out for 45,000 people tonight. The UPS's held up, but I eventually shut down both machines since no help was in sight. Argh! Well, reset the counter, and here we go on the march back to 1 year of uptime.

Well, someone has been asking for new content. I'm still tracking your IP down to figure out who you are, (if I could only find out where Fuss O Neil is...). Anyhow, just a reminder, I'll be in PA for the holidays. I'd love to see people; contact me if you want to hang out. Also, just for an update, ski season has returned! Mt. Hood Meadows is opening on Saturday (late start this year), so you'll be certain to see some pictures from Meadows coming shortly. Until then...

Well, things have been going along now with little interruption. Minus the colds and some flu-ish things, things have been tolerable. I think I've gotten over the whole shock and depression stage of this mess, but certain days are worse than others. My birthday is this week - I'll be 25. Car insurance drops this year - woohoo!! Anyways, don't expect to see me back East this year. The plane tickets are just too expensive to justify the trip. Plans may change, but I wouldn't count on it.

If you think of it, drop me a line on Thursday - I'd love to hear from people. Later. /pj

It's been awhile again since I've made an update. I'm still planning on making the updates to the front page and photos page (and getting the planned and promised photos up), but life has taken a turn for the worse recently. I'm now single again, and it's really the pits. Aside from the nights alone, I'm really missing the companionship of Nicole - I still think it all over in my head, and can't figure out what the hell happened. But life really is that, and most of the time it can really suck. Anyways, as always, drop me a line if you want to. I'm tentatively planning a trip back east in October sometime, and am looking for work closer to the East cost now. I need to be closer to family and friends.

For now, that's it. More to come soon. /pj

It's been awhile since I've tuned in and given any updates. I'm heading East in the end of May for a family event (graduation), so any of you who want to get a piece of me while I'm out there, let me know.

I'm planning on also updating the website soon. I'm getting more time to work on it, and I'll be putting up a slew of pictures soon. For now though, back to work... /pj

If some of you have now noticed, the front page has been modified to correct a dummy thing I had in the code for quite some time. I didn't close my h4 tag correctly for the news header in the HTML style-sheet, causing all of the news to be h4 size (quite big). It now doesn't look like crap. Laters. /pj

Well, the powers that be have forced me to move my mail server recently. If anyone has tried to mail me something at pj@waskiewicz.org in the last few days, my apologies...I've since moved all mail to my local servers at my house, so waskiewicz.org is now all hosted inside of my humble abode. Go ahead and resend any inquiries, etc., to me if you tried and had it bouncing. /pj

It's official. I'll be coming back East for the Thanksgiving season November 24th, returning to Oregon December 2nd. I won't be coming in for Christmas then, so get your shots in while I'm here during that time. Hope to see some of you when I get back!! /pj

Lots of changes going on in the waskiewicz.org land... Pigpen, the router, blew its power supply a few weeks ago. This, obviously, sucked. I swapped in another machine that I had, which is a bit beefier (RAID 5, dual proc, etc.). However, the new "beefyness" just caused all hell to break loose. I don't have enough power to run the machines in this room. I turned on Charlie Brown (a P4 overclocked to 3.15 GHz) and the whole room went dark, and the UPS couldn't take the surge. Alas, everything rebooted. Blarg. I guess I could blame it on the only Windows box in the room...

Well, the website is experiencing a bit of technical difficulties. I just found a problem with my network card (NIC) in the webserver. It's been spewing around 10,000 RX errors in the last 3 hours, and causing my switch traffic to go from ~5 - 10 MB/sec to 80 KB/sec. It's pretty bad. So say goodbye to the 195-day uptime. The server will be going down shortly to have the NIC replaced and a new kernel build installed. Oh well. Until then, out. /pj

What a ride. I'm ready to take another 2 week vacation. Busy is a totally relative term. Just when you think you can't possibly fit any more crap into a day, you have 4 large projects converge in one day, each requiring some level of conscious and competent response. What a crock. I'm 23, single, and should be working 8-5, going out at night, and having the time of my life. Instead, I get stuck in a computer room past 6, and then sit at home and work until 2am. Thanks Corporate America. -pj

Here I am again everyone. I'm watching my cat attack my foot, while my new Rio S50 MP3 player gets loaded with tomorrow's workout playlist. Allow me to pose a question though: What the hell is up with women?! Why is it they say they will call and NEVER DO??? I thought guys get roasted for crap like that. And now I'm supposed to put up with it? This is a large load of crap. Anyways, it's bedtime. Rant is over, step off of soapbox... -pj

Well, I'm back in Oregon (as of Jan. 6th). Tommy has come and gone, and I'm back here left to my own devices. One botched attempt at asking a girl out, and months worth of work needing to be done in a few weeks is what I'm the proud owner of.

On a lighter note, I have some new pictures on the way. They include pics from Christmas back on the East coast, including new ones of the little man (DJ, my nephew), and the snow that seems to have forgotten about the Pacific Northwest this year. I also have pictures of my cats, my parents' cats, and many others. They're in the process of being formatted and edited, and will be up here shortly. As for now, Happy belated New Year; have a great one out there this time around. -pj

Well folks, it's that time of the year again. However, I'll be making it different this time around, since I'll be flying back to PA for Christmas. My flights are scheduled for Dec. 18 to Dec. 28, so I'll have 10 fun-filled days back in the great northeast. I'm also going to be singing with Lyric again for one concert (well, one song), so check that out.

That's it for the timebeing; be well. Out!!

Wow. AT&T are a bunch of jackasses. I really don't like the world of ISP's and broadband suppliers. What a bunch of idiots. They had an "outage" which killed my net connection for over a day, and they had no explanation why my ip address was "all of a sudden" a 10. address. What a pain. Well, after a power supply fiasco, along with the cat shitting on the carpet, and my wicked coughing, the day ended quite nicely. No kitty poop on the carpet (yet), all the computers up and running, and a nice cool evening to give me pneumonia. Booyah! Hope everyone's kickin' well. Out!

It's a happy day in Oregon. The Hillsboro air show and festival is booming over my house (those things are LOUD), the sun is shining, and, oh yeah, I have a cold. Doh! But, don't fear. I have two little bundles of joy to keep me company. Last week (to the day) I got two kittens from the animal shelter. Their names are Tux and Aslan. I hope to have pictures of them soon on the website. Keep checking for the announcement.

Well, it's back to drinking my tea. Remember all, I'll be on the East coast in about 1 month (Sept. 19th) in Boston. Not like it matters, but I figured it'd be good info. Out!

Well, sadly, Tommy has come and gone. I took a much needed vacation over the last week, and we had a blast. Wow I feel better. I have so much more positive stuff in me now. So you know what that means!!! GET YOUR BUTTS OUT TO SEE ME!!!!!

In other news, I'll be on the east coast yet again between September 19th and 22nd. One catch: I'll be in Boston, MA. But, I'll be there. What that affords the average person, I haven't the foggiest. But I'll be there then, and I'll be in for a week over Christmas. Hope all is well everywhere. Out!

Well folks, I'm all moved in. That's right, I went and bought myself a new house. And yes, I know your next question. Are you on broadband?!?! Why yes I am!!!! And this badass webserver is back in Oregon, in my house, happily chugging along, to serve all your content-related questions. More later folks, pictures, etc., etc. Out...

The last time the fearless leader posted to this board...er...sorry. I got visions of grandeur there... I am now in the process of buying a house. I know, I know, the last post read that I wasn't going to be buying. But I found that one man, and I'm going to buy it. Weird... 22 years old, and buying a house.

Now, on to more interesting matters. It's 8 days until I land in Pennsylvania. I'm excited to see people, drink lots and LOTS of beer, see all the lovely ladies... well, that's if they want to see me...

Well, it's way past my bedtime (I'm a working man now!!). I better check out for now. I hope you're all itching to see me come May 24th!! Out!!

The house hunt has been significantly dented. Damn raises (or lack of them). I was getting all encouraged by co-workers that all was well, only to have all hopes and dreams smashed down. Well, not all of them, but most of the house-hopes for now. I'm still on the hunt though.

Anyhow, I'll definately be rolling through PA between May 24th and June 2nd, so be sure to book your time with me while I'm there if you'd like to see me!! Out.

If people haven't noticed (which I hope they haven't), the webserver moved to a new IP. I hate when my DSL company gets bought by another company. Oh well. We still have the kickin' bandwidth that we had before!!

Now, just to give people a heads-up; I will be moving soon (in a few months). Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be buying my own house. Then I have to find another kick-ass DSL provider. I'll keep everyone posted.

In other news, it looks like I'll be heading back to PA in the end of May (if all works out). So if anyone wants to get their punches in while I'm there, make sure to schedule me!!

So it's that time of the year again folks; time when everyone has to give each other good cheer, material goods, and all the shit associated with it. Personally, Christmas means one thing to me, and I'm not sharing what that is. I do hope everyone has a SAFE holiday. Whatever you do: drink and stay home. Or walk to the next bar.

So I'll add some news here I guess. I'm transferring to a new Intel factory after the new year (bigger, better, etc.). Things should be cool there. I'm skiing like a bastard (Timberline). Plus, I've been working out like a mofo, and I've gone from 165 lbs. (October) back to 149-150 lbs. Booyah. I've still got lots of work to do. I guess it's something to do when one has all this spare time at home. Time to go muck around in the database. I'll be posting soon.

So due to the powers-that-be, the server that this page resides on (in PA) is going to be unavailable on Friday, Nov. 23 (at least they think so), due to a power outage. So, leave it to the lovely thing called broadband and DNS, and voila!! This website (along with linville.org) is hosted on my box in Oregon.

This has been brought to you, the dedicated user whom we so humbly serv...er...Look!! A shiny thing!!

I have finally posted the photos of my new car. I have some pictures of my old Escort, for the nostalgia... But the pics of the Golf are on the Photos page. I must warn: I am NOT photogenic. I do try though. Just admire the car.

Please note that I am planning on taking pics of the interior (because it is sweet) and post them as well. I just haven't had the time. But they will come very soon.

Well, it is now completely official: I am the proud owner of a 2002 VW Golf GLS 1.8L Turbo. I will have pictures of it shortly, as well as my old, very good and reliable car that I traded in (sigh), my Ford Escort.

So stay tuned since I will have the pics on the way. I'll tell you; the world of financing shit sucks; bigtime.

Well everyone, it's that time in my life that I'm looking to buy my first brand-new car... I'm looking at a 2002 VW Golf GTS 1.8L Turbo with pretty much everything in it. It is an UNBELIEVABLE car. I should know by tomorrow if it is a go. I'm excited. Just thought I'd share the news with ya...

Whoops. Found a damn error in the database. Fixed it now. There were renegade apostrophe's running around (they really wreak havoc in a SQL query)... I also updated the structure in the php_sources reference so that the timestamps are correct.

I modified the php_sources reference page quite heavily. It now sorts the filenames into alphabetical order, and each source file has a corresponding description file that gets displayed. The last modified date for the code is also supplied now.

Now that a good portion of the updates I had in mind are out of the way, I'm going to try to revamp at least the front page to ease the navigation a bit. I'm also thinking about converting to Oracle... More to come.

Well, I have triumphed. I have moved all the news into MySQL and pulled it out dynamically. So what does that mean for the average reader? Nothing... Actually, if the database goes down, that means that you won't be able to read the news. Oh well.

So, some people may be wondering why some of the posts were all posted at midnight. Well, I put this new system of adding news (which is now a webform for me) in tonight, and at that point I added the time field. So I defaulted the records before that to midnight. I could pull a number out of my ass if you'd like. :-)

Well, I'm still a bit sore, so I'm going to bed. Check out the sources to the new pages!! They're in the references section. Out!!

UPDATED: I got the comments portion of the View Feedback section finally done. Performed some MySQL magic, played with my PHP, and voila!! I guess next time I need to get things done on the site, I should have more surgery done... Enjoy!!

I actually finished posting all the new pictures. I also finally uploaded the updated version of my resume. It finally reads that I'm out of college... Anyway, I'm tired and my face is still a little swollen, so I'm off to bed. Enjoy the pictures!!

The wisdom teeth came out yesterday. Still a little sore and swollen, but all is well. I'm able to eat solid food (pizza, bread, etc.), so I'm happy. I also found out I'm not allergic to codeine. Booyah!!

So I fixed the MySQL database, so comments shouldn't get truncated anymore. Speaking of the comments, I will get that code to view up as soon as I can. Also, I set up a backup MX server for waskiewicz.org and linville.org, Aaron Linville's domain. Took me a bit of work; damn DNS and sendmail $=w rulesets can suck it down. Eventually just had to subnet the friggin' domain here at home (subnet of waskiewicz.org), even though the other half of waskiewicz.org is on the east coast. Oh well. It works... No more undeliverable email!!

One last note; I have uploaded a ton of pictures from when my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and myself were back East to celebrate my mother's 50th birthday as well as my nephew's (DJ) 1st birthday. Pictures come from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Oregon. There are also some new assorted pictures from here on the homefront in good ol' P-Town. I think that should be enough for now. Out.

Well, I've got more photos up. MUCH more to come. I figure I'll have lots of time to get them up (mom's 50th birthday, nephew's 1st birthday) this coming Thursday since I'll be getting my wisdom teeth out. Joy... For now, check out the samples there... Out.

I've posted some pics from various paintball excursions I've had in PA and OR, the latter being a bit more brutal. It's still a great game, and I recommend everyone try it sometime. I'm also getting ready to finish (for the 10th time) the comments viewing section. I have the code written, it's just a bit buggy at the moment. Out.

I've started to get some little things fixed on this site, like parts of the feedback section. I'm working on getting the comments accessible (they're sitting in MySQL right now, and I'm trying to think of a nice design to output them...). I've also updated the About page, as well as hunted down some spelling issues. Two other backend things I've taken care of are the dynamic modification times on the bottom of each page now work (finally), and I secured the connections to MySQL (don't ask how, because I won't tell you). Changes to come are an update to my resume, and the long-awaited site redesign. I'm also getting ready to post my PHP code that makes this site.

I've been out of touch lately, especially since I've moved to Portland, OR in June. I now work for Intel as an Automation/Software Engineer. Good work, great people, excellent company. Anyway, I uploaded pics of my new apartment out here to the photos page, so take a look. If you'd like my contact info out here, drop me an email.

Just got all the main HTML ported to PHP. Yeah!! Also, I got the view_feedback page up, so you can see what others think of my site. My resume also finally went up (MS Word, HTML, and TXT formats). Future plans include getting more references up, as well as re-doing most of the layout on the site. My sense for design sucks, but I can try to make up for it in the coding department. Out!!

All time modified parts of each page is now dynamically generated. Also, I got the back-end code written for MySQL in the feedback form. So I can start taking feedback. I will have the viewing interface soon so you can see yours and others' comments. I'm also going to be posting my PHP code for this website in the references section soon. Also thoughts of a message board... Cheers.

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