My son wanted a bedtime story. Here it is.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named William. He told his dad that he wanted a bedtime story. "Go to sleep," said his father. "Please?" asked William. "Oh, okay," said his father, "here it is."

I did it three levels, and he got the idea.

Here is some useful information for Asbury Elementary School - Millcreek School District, Erie PA.

Check for school closings: 452-2000; enter code 6100 for Millcreek.

Here are a few more useful links:

• Asbury Elementary Homepage
• Lunch Menu
• School Calendar

I have an old cordless phone. A phone that, once it rings, causes my local wireless network to go down. Windows seems to repair itself, but Ubuntu just hangs there dead until I manually reconnect it. Here is a solution that checks the network every minute. If there is a failure (30 seconds or so after checking), the network is restarted.

First, make a file called check_network in the /root directory by using 'sudo vi /root/check_network'. In it, put the following code:

This checks the connection (in this case, against Google). If it doesn't, it causes the network to restart. Now, add this to the root user's crontab file by running 'sudo crontab -e'. The crontab file should look like:

This means, every minute, run the check_network script. I wish there was a better way of doing this. Actually, if there could be a tie-in to the icon that shows the connectivity in the toolbar, that would be an even better solution.

One of my favorite movies of the 50's science fiction era was Them!, a movie about giant mutant ants attacking people. This would be a perfect movie to redo with modern special effects. Above is my idea of what would constitute a good remake: lots of flamethrowers, giant ants (of course), all taking place in New York City. New York City is photogenic enough for lots of monster attacks. Another good city would be Paris, due to lots of sewers.

My friend Dave's band The Dregs will be playing January 2nd at the Last Shot. Check them out!