iPhone + nagios

The boss just left to get us iPhones.

So now the question is: When nagios generates an alert, it goes to (phone number)@(verizon.com or some shit). The phone rings not long after the alert goes out.

But the iPhone, she no support the “push” email. So, what to do? YAPS? Is there some other way to send an SMS that will make the phone make a ringy-dingy at 2am when a box thrashes to death?

Update: Nearly everything says, “This is what they mean when they say iPhone isn’t business ready”.  It would appear that the SMS app doesn’t treat messages like a short email; unless told otherwise, we’ll get no ringy-dingy and thus, what is probably the primary business case for our phones goes poof.

Now, I’ve been told I should be using YAPS+modem anyway and maybe now’s the time. Problem still remains: gotta get the data to the phone.

Sigh. So other than a phone that sync to my desktop with reasonable aplomb, and some cool features, I guess, no iPhone for me.

Beware your blood sugar

One small point: I realized the other day, there is almost certainly a link between my blood sugar and moods. Sometimes, I think my down moods are “artificial”.

Since I started working out and eating properly, I note that I have almost no sources of refined sugar. Every drink is diet. Every snack is sugar-free. A lot of what I eat tends to be of a low glycemic index.

Long story short, I think I’m doing a poor job of regulating my blood sugar. I’m either too low (afternoons, when I’m unfocused and distracted) or too high (wheee, it’s motherfucking BOOZE TIME, when I’m … unfocused and highly irritable).

I still am pretty sure I’m fucking nuts, but I have noticed a big problem with this in the past couple months, and I think it’s relevant.

Today’s award for creative use of “including”

Pentagon shreds F-14s to keep parts from enemies:

The Pentagon fears that if the surplus jets aren’t destroyed, they could fall into the wrong hands, including Iran’s.

Well, according to Wikipedia, exactly one other nation uses the F14 Tomcat: “As of 2007, it remains in service only with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.” (If I wasn’t amazingly lazy, I’d check Janes or Defensetech, but I’m pretty sure my memory is right on this one)

So who else’s hands would benefit from the spares? I’m guessing, none. Fighter aircraft are not laden with generic fiddly bits.

Can we just fucking start World War III with them and get it over with? This slow-burn Gulf of Tonkin shit is getting old and boring, fast. Good to see the media is right back on board with the adminstration, though.

Massachusetts Begins Universal Health Care

Massachusetts Begins Universal Health Care

Those who do not qualify for subsidies and cannot get coverage through their jobs can buy low-cost but unsubsidized health plans offered by private insurers through the Connector under the Commonwealth Choice program.

Or, hey, how about we just try the goddamn free market? This is no different from now, except these “private insurers” are gov’t subsidized, and the core of the system is still tied to employers.

Why does everyone hate the free market so much? I just don’t get it: so far every health reform is musical chairs, only no one takes a chair away when the song ends. Everyone sits down and claps and marvels at how better this arrangement is.

Let freedom ring, and maybe for another $20 rub its knee in my crotch

Judge: Lap Dances Protected By Constitution

So very awesome. Also, best job ever?

The case involves 24-year-old Laurel Guillen, a dancer at a Salem club called Cheetah’s, who gave a lap dance to an undercover officer in 2005.

iPhones by Wednesday …

We’re getting our iPhones tomorrow, once we work out how to have the company pay for them all (and assuming there are still 4 available in NoVA, and we can figure out a way to get 4 of them). So it’s Xmas in July, really. Like a kid I’m counting the minutes.

Tog posted a bit about the iPhone:

It really is wonderful that, in an industry rife with companies striving for mediocrity, one company is still doing things right.

But he’s committing one of the classic blunders; no, not starting a land war in Asia. He is confusing mediocrity with worse-is-better, although in practice they’re the same thing. The Zune pretty much is a non-starter vs iPod, but that gives it better survival characteristics, as it’s built on the computer virus that is Windows. As I shopped around for a new phone for my wife, I marvelled at the insipid, awful design, only to remember, “no one gives a shit”, because phones are built on the virus of fickle, non-technical consumers.

Also, I think I really need to start working on dealing with my depression. I really can’t continue to focus effectively on the physical if the mental isn’t 100%, too. I’m pretty sure my continual ennui at work is not some vague metaphysical dissatisfaction, but a pronounced downspike. Rough seas ahead; but if I can remake my body, I guess I can do the same to my brain. Right?