So my commitment to be smoke free is proving much stronger than my commitment to keep this blog updated 😉 Sorry ’bout that. I’ve gained some weight. I’ve done a lot of things to make sure my mind never wanders in the direction of smoking. It’s kind of like a mentality migration. It’s hard to…
My Photo A Day Project
So I’ve been trying to take a picture every single day for almost a month now. Most days I take more than one picture. One day I completely forgot to take a picture. This wasn’t my creation. My buddy Steve told me about it, and he found it online somewhere else (maybe here). You can…
How not to manage code
I’m a systems guy. The reason I’m a systems guy is because I’m not a fan of long periods of coding. If I was, I’d be a developer. So anyway, I *do* write code, and I maintain a Moodle course management deployment. We needed some local customizations made to the code, and I even wrote…
Smoke Free, Day 24
Right. So. I don’t smoke. It’s a little depressing at times, but that never lasts long. Right now I’m going through my insomnia stage, which I believe will be followed by flu-like symptoms. I’m already coughing up…. stuff. My guess is I have about another month or so where my body decides to do things…
Will Wikileaks Keep Anyone Honest?
I, for one, am hopeful that it can. Wikileaks is a website that allows anyone to anonymously post confidential information as a means of providing a more permanent, public record of corporate or governmental wrongdoing. Why do people trust Wikileaks? Because it would defeat their own purpose to break the trust of the community to…
Sys Admins Make the Worst Customers
It’s a vicious cycle: sysadmins can find a wealth of shortcomings in just about any technology that crosses their desk. Vendors completely ignore sysadmins as a market for their technology, in part because they’re impossible to please, and in part because it would cost too much money to even come close, which would mean that…
Embarrassingly Simplified Home Networking
Tonight I did some rather emasculating things to my home network. I had a pretty nice one. I had my cable modem coming in, then ran a cat5 straight from that to my Smoothwall firewall machine, which had three interfaces – one for the cable modem, one for the internal network, and one for a…
The iPhone Compromise
iPhone was announced officially yesterday at MacWorld. I was really looking forward to it. I was ‘cautiously optimistic’. If you know me, you know that cautiously optimistic, for me, is pretty damned optimistic. I’m an incurable cynic. I can’t help it. So what about this phone stood out to me? What stood out with this…
Blogger issues continue
Man, my worst fear has come true. Blogger is becoming *evil* from a usability perspective, and here I am trapped, because if I switch, all of those posts basically go away… or at least the old URLs become completely invalid. Maybe I just chalk it up, import the posts into something that isn’t tied to…
Yes, one Chevy Volt Please
I came across this entry on autobloggreen.com about the Chevy Volt, which is GM’s latest stab at convincing us that they really do put some effort behind getting an electric car out the door to us sometime in the next millenium. I have to admit that, while I’m wholly *unconvinced* that I’ll ever see this…