Today I moved the website and it seems to have landed here at nowyouarethemouse.com… this name is a reference to a line in the 1983 movie Bob & Doug McKenzie – Strange Brew. The movie is loosely based on Hamlet and involves a couple of hosers who put a mouse in a bottle for the purpose of obtaining free beer. The role of Brewmeister Smith is played by Max von Sydow and at one point in the film he appears to have Bob McKenzie (Rick Moranis) and Pam Elsinore (Lynne Griffin) trapped in a giant vat that is filling up with beer. Smith pokes his head through a sealable opening at the top of a boiler in the Elsinore Brewery and begins speaking to Bob and Pam who are trapped inside. He speaks to Bob when he says

How ironic, you came here with a mouse in a bottle. Now you are the mouse. It's really too bad you won't be around to see the whole world become addicted to Elsinore beer.

Don't worry, they are able to escape mostly unharmed… the important thing to note here is that this is where the bitchin new name came from.

After years of having this domain name, I am moving the website to www.nowyouarethemouse.com in order to use my original domain name as a "corporate" site of sorts. If anyone actually reads this shit then you'll see what I mean shortly. In the meantime, both sites may work for a while. I guess I'll have to search out anything that may be hardcoded to see if I missed anything anywhere.

Last night and tonight I had some trouble with my router here at the house. It is the one that forwards ports for this website as well as a few others and some other shit. I was using a USRobotics USR8000A router (one of the first to offer a 100Mb switch) and it barfed when I started using μtorrent. So I dumped it and put an old BEFSR81 in it's place. I'll probabky put something better in there soon, just that the Linksys one happened to be handy at the time.

Now when I try to connect to an RDP session to an internal machine by using an external name I get an error message like this

The remote session was disconnected because of a decryption error at the server.

Well that honks donkeys. Turns out all I have to do it use the internal address and it works just fine. Funny how it can redirect traffic appropriately to internal destinations but it can't do it without fucking with packets!