A couple of things today were lame-worthy.

My colo box (nonce) at SagoNet got indirectly DDoS'ed.  I say indirectly, because the random UDP packets weren't even destined for my box, they were for oasis.binarix.net.  Here's a little snapshot of the action that cause me around 98% packet loss for an hour and a half:

12:45:23.838680 IP 61.154.14.105.2558 > 207.150.167.55.13195: UDP, length: 991
12:45:23.839533 IP 218.6.83.45.4660 > 207.150.167.55.2719: UDP, length: 999
12:45:23.840384 IP 218.186.177.169.2427 > 207.150.167.55.6667: UDP, length: 997
12:45:23.841234 IP 61.240.161.218.42077 > 207.150.167.55.6667: UDP, length: 997

I tripped a circuit in my condo twice.  The first time it was understandable, dryer running, laser printer online, and I was vacuuming.  Second time I only had the vacuum on, which was weird.  I'm guessing the breaker for the circuit was still warm from before.  Oh well.  At least all my UPSes work nicely.  I only lost my Mac Mini ...

Best Buy has gone overboard trying to market their Geek Squad nonsense.  After looking at a couple overpriced DVD sets, I attempted to wander over to the computing department to browse around.  Unfortunately, most of the department was blocked off except for the entrance, where there was some Geek Squad station.  I think they were making you sign up for something, but it was thoroughly rediculous.  I was tempted to ask them how many bits in a byte, or something, but I resisted.

Oh, and strangely enough, I washed my car, and 5 minutes afterward the clouds departed and it turned into a sunny day.  Weird.

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