Travel blogging is moving
In an effort to keep this blog more technically focused, also to encourage my kids to write blog entries, all of the trips and travel are moving to a new domains at http://driventoexplore.org/.
In an effort to keep this blog more technically focused, also to encourage my kids to write blog entries, all of the trips and travel are moving to a new domains at http://driventoexplore.org/.
Yesterday my littlest one had a dance/recital/show at his preschool. I took videos on my iPhone of the event, and then promptly spent the better part of last night trying to get my iPhone to act as a USB storage device so I could copy the two movies off. My…
There’s been a, um, heated discussion at my work about our current server naming standards. Personally I hate our naming scheme. However, a lot of people have become accustomed to it, and a lot of applications use the standards in their configurations, often to automate management. So when the idea…
Bill Smith, editor and publisher of the local “Evanston Now online newspaper and I had lengthy discussion today. It started when I commented on his article entitled Library Board Votes To Levy Own Tax. My comment was summarily deleted because his interpretation of the statue that I cited differed from…
Or maybe ‘Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology…Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.’ All told it took about 48 hours to complete (no, not straight through), but we’re now running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 on a new AMD Athlon II 620 (quad 2.6GHz core). That should…