Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

I have what I tried below, but I eventually dropped the attempt. The Lenovo modules hung up VMWare any time I tried to boot it that way, and while I could mount the NTFS partition used by WinXP R/W with the tools below, I could not easily get WinXP to look at the lion's share of the drive. (My fault, really - if I weren't so attached to other filesystem types, I could probably have made this work).

I think I wrote about seven blog entries in my head today. Of course, I don't remember any of it now - it's late, I played volleyball (doubles) over lunch, and soccer this evening, and now I'm just tired. But I wanted to post my silly little graphic for today. So here it is.

And no, I'm not talking about my actual real house: that's as messy as ever, and not improving. You'll notice some changes around here... "oooh, pretty new colors! Look! crazy nonsense stuff in the margins! What's up with that?"

I'm sure some things are borked (let me know when you find 'em). The little snips on the side are for doodles. I've set myself a task: must be 1"×1" - at the moment I'm using gimp, but who knows - I'd like to scan in some more sketchy-doodle things.

Cheers!

I was fiddling with migrations, and found these regarding the use of MySQL-ish ENUMs in Migrations:

• Enum fields in migrations? [rails.techno-weenie.net]
• HowtoUseSetAndEnumColumns [wiki.rubyonrails.com]

Basically, ENUMs aren't supported, and using Validations might be a good work-around, but is dependent on you putting (and keeping) all of the logic in your Rails app. If you need to go cross-app (with some other thing that ain't rails), then use CHECK or other DB constraints to enforce desired values.