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Sept 19th, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, was the day I paid off my last student loan and last debt excluding my house.

I started down this road November 28th of ’08, and it’s taken this long to pay it all off; 2 credit cards, car, motorcycle, and student loans. Approximately $35,625 later, having sold one of my motorcyles and cashed out a hefty chunk of my money market account, I’m done.

The 2700 figure in this post’s title is the amount of interest I paid out over the time that I had my student loan. Had I lived with it for the full 15 years, they estimated that I would pony up $6797; well, sweep that one under the rug.

Along the way I axe’d my cable and brought Netflix into the fray. Joe recommended Netflix when I was first considering dropping cable. It was a fantastic recommendation as I don’t miss cable and I really enjoy Netflix.

The last year has really sucked regarding spending; Joe can attest to that. I was being a tightwad for a reason though; I can ease up now.

I got an invite to check out apigee tonight while I was plugging away at nessquik; how convenient.

nessquik had a slew of fixes and enhancements lumped into it this last week and especially today. The audit modification code is 90% done; all that’s left is the scheduler. After the audit stuff is done I need to tie together the client code and the API.

The API is a skeleton right now, but I need to change a couple method names to match what is happening in the controllers that handle the regular UI. In addition to that I need to bring the controller code over into the API. Since the code is already written in the controllers, that won’t take long.

Man, the roles system is so sweet, the audit and policy modification pages are sweet and the admin UI is totally awesome. I’m so stoked to get this thing rolled out.

So I have a portion of nessquik that is just being a major headache right now. It uses a jquery plugin that works when you do one thing, but not when you do another. I had it working, and then it stopped working. And for the life of me I can’t figure out what is going on.

• av malware detect heatmap
• avparser.pl
• asciiportal and here
• sort, consolidate and calculate network blocks
• tcprewrite
• click router
• create phone numbers

Slowly I pick away at things that need to get done. Two new people joined our group today. I hope it all works out well for all of us. The policy editor in nessquik is done and I moved along to the audit editor. This one is a little more complicated although it really shouldn’t be. I think the biggest difficulty is how best to display targets that people search for. Hmm, I’ll roll it around in my head and think of something.

• bouncer