It’s a good thing I’m not planning on retiring soon.  My Google Adsense earnings have not been stellar, but the cash trickles in.  Unfortunately I’m paid in US dollars so it’s anyone’s guess as to how much I’ve really made taking today’s fluctuations.  Since I began I’ve amassed a grand total of $5,48.  That’ll cover today’s bread and gruel lunch nicely.  But when I take the cost of electricity into account, I’m still running at a loss.  Good thing I’m not doing this as a business.
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It was a good start this morning. That’s a krapfen next to my second morning coffee.  Mmmm.
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Wow, that’s a lot of money for dinner. Much of 3GSM/MWC strikes me as the carriers wanting to show off. For a €635.00 per seat I’d rather go to take one and a half dates to the, not too far away, El Bulli and appreciate some Michelin star goodness. One would hope for that price that they could update their order form from 2005 to 2008.

In other news: If anyone wants to spot me a ticket, I’ll be happy to attend.  I can even do carrier-speak, and regale ARPU, churn and CPGA metrics.
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I was cruising down the bike lane on my way back from the Mobile Advertising Conference and what should I pass but a lute shop. I though I was mistaken at first and slammed on the brakes. Yes, a lute shop. Not a musical instrument shop but a shop specifically supplying lutes. It started me wondering how large the market is for lutes is? I mean, it’s not like a lute wears out rapidly and needs replacing. And even if it did there can’t be more than 5 active players (strummers?) in all of Bavaria. I perhaps I’m mistaken and they do wear out rapidly. I don’t know since the lute is an instrument that competes with the flute as my most hated instrument and the least likely to learned by me.

Lute lovers, your lute-mart is located on Dachauerstr. Just don’t strum near me. Same goes for bagpipe players.

I changed from ddrwt with it’s GUI configuration to openwrt. Now my voip calls work again.

Linksys WRT54GL v1.2 settings:

mtd erase nvram

nvram set boot_wait=on
nvram set boot_time=10
nvram set log_ipaddr=10.15.11.1
nvram commit

uci set network.wan.proto=static
uci set network.wan.type=bridge
uci set network.wan.proto=static

uci set network.wan.ipaddr=10.15.11.2
uci set network.wan.dns=80.68.95.249

uci set network.lan.ipaddr=10.15.11.2
uci set network.lan.type=bridge

uci set network.lan.proto=static
uci set network.lan.ipaddr=10.15.11.2
uci set network.lan.dns=80.68.95.249

uci set wireless.wl0=wifi-device
uci set wireless.wl0.type=broadcom
uci set wireless.wl0.channel=13
uci set wireless.wl0.agmode=11b
uci set wireless.wl0.disabled=0
uci set wireless.cfg2=wifi-iface
uci set wireless.cfg2.device=wl0
uci set wireless.cfg2.network=lan
uci set wireless.cfg2.mode=ap
uci set wireless.cfg2.ssid=free.imaginator.com
uci set wireless.cfg2.encryption=none
uci set wireless.cfg2.isolate=1

uci commit

ifup wan
ifup lan

ipkg update
ipkg install ntpclient
ipkg remove dnsmasq

wifi