Yep. Accident number two for this year - I haven't even had the car for a year yet. This was right outside the Murata Business Center; I had barely left work. Should be totally the other guy's fault; he even got cited for it.
While his Pacifica was fine, my car …
read moreThis T-Shirt is awesome: failure is always an option.
So far I can't find it online anywhere; I guess I'd have to get it custom printed somewhere.
read moreFirst couple weeks at Express Dynamics are over, and they've been a stressful couple of weeks - albiet quite productive. You might have noticed that we have a new website; I think it's much better than the one we had before - there's a ton more content and it explains what we …
read more[Brady] and I finally found a VoIP provider that seemed to have decent rates and local DIDs in Teliax. This spurred us both to get Asterisk setup on our home networks. I purchased a Sipura SPA-1001 a while back (beginning of October), but haven't had the time or motivation to …
read moreSo, it looks like I'll be ending a 5 year run at CTI/PA.net. I'm going to be going to work at a new software development company, Express Dynamics.
I think things went well today at CTI - I still have two weeks to document everything I've done there - and …
read moreIt's been quite the busy weekend. I'm not sure what all's going on in my life right now, but I know something that is getting done - rearranging my living room.
The "what all's going on" part I can't really talk about right now - hopefully an update soon.
On top of …
read moreWe're headed back to to Virginia again this weekend - this time to visit [Dennis] and Michele Little. It'll be nice to see them and their new place and will be a nice distraction from the normal rush of life.
We were worried that we wouldn't be able to go down …
read moreSo shortly after claiming that the Karma's life may be extended, I'm thinking about getting rid of it. I kind-of feel bad for the thing - it was really the best competitor that Apple had, but it's clunky UI and the fact that there have never been any third party integration …
read moreThis is some exciting stuff. I've always loved my karma, but hated the interface. Having the possibility of real filesystem access to the Karma opens up whole new possiblities for syncing music to it. Bring it on!
read moreSo Tiff and my weekend was pretty much taken up by both of these two things.
Logan's 7th birthday party was on Saturday (his actual birthday is Thursday, so my parents and I drove down to Virginia for the day. It was nice to visit with them, I managed to …
read moreKonqueror's Web Shortcuts are very nice; it's really handy just to be able to do "<alt-f2> gg: stuff n things <enter>" and have konqueror launch from the run menu searching google for stuff n things.
So, I figured I'd add an eBay shortcut - makes sense, right? It's all good, except …
read moreI've recently been trying out Kopete, and am very happy with its integration w/ KDE and KAddressBook. However, I've run into a snag.
Actually, it might not really be Kopete's fault, but it is really annoying. The only way to configure socks support for Kopete is to configure it globally …
read moreWe just got Tycho back tonight around 17:30. It's very good to have him home, and I think he's very happy to be home. He did have to get catheterized, which I know he probably didn't like (I know I wouldn't like it). We still have a couple weeks …
read moreI caught Tycho yesterday going to the bathroom somewhere he shouldn't - plus it didn't look like it was going so well. Tiff decided when she got home that she needed to call the Vet, and they told her to bring him right in.
Well, it looks like he's got a …
read moreRetract what I said about the Silverstars - this is the way to go. Using LEDs to replace all the other marker/turning bulbs will be much cooler; and I will (theoretically) never have to change my bulbs again. I guess I'll have to just go buy some cheap 7440's for …
read moreFollowing a thread on NASIOC about clearing my headlights, I did the same on mine. Tiff helped me separate the two halves of the headlight - I bet you can imagine what she said when we were in Walmart and I told her I was going to bake my headlights ;-).
They …
read moreWhile some other blog software has had comment moderation before, since I use a completely hand-written CMS, I needed to implement it myself. I've been having quite the problem with comment spam recently (as any of you with RSS readers has seen, I'm sure), but hopefully my solution will fix …
read moreWow; quite the lack of updates. The LAN Party was done on August 6th; pretty much with no hitches. You can check out all the pictures, as they've been up for awhile.
Tiff, her parents, sister, sister's boyfriend, and I spent last week (13th - 20th) down at Myrtle Beach. Surprise …
read moreSeems that a little lm_sensors/net-snmp bug has bit me on the new Argo. Well, it might've been there before but I forgot about it. Anyway, according to Red Hat bug#150199, net-snmp is supposed to be pushed out with the next release with a fix; but that was 3 …
read moreLooks like our house will finally be getting a paved driveway! I hadn't quite understood how big 1400sqft was until I saw this carved out of our yard and old driveway. Of course, this will preclude us from doing much else the rest of the year; or at least until …
read moreNot sure if you noticed a bunch of websites on Argo being down last night, but they were for awhile. We installed new 80G hard drives in RAID1 configuration that should give us a good bit more reliability (not that we've had problems). They should also be a good deal …
read moreApparently Xen doesn't cooperate kindly with the sata_nv driver. I've only found a little evidence of this so far, but the fact that it was 8 months ago doesn't bode well for me. I had really hoped that Xen would have much better performance and be more stable than VMWare …
read moreSo I've tenatively sold my Axim x30 to Chris (I still have a VGA Cooler available!). I've also got the SonyEricsson s710a I've been looking after.
Last night I managed to get stuff exported from KeePass into PwManager. So far it seems to be working fairly well and is fairly …
read moreEvery day I go to work, I grab several pieces of electronics to take with me: my cellphone, my PDA, my laptop, and my camera. Even when I go out somewhere, I typically have the cellphone, camera, and leave the pda in the car in case I need it. It'd …
read moreThis past weekend we got a pretty good storm which washed out our driveway. So I spent about an hour raking the stones back in place. Good thing we're going to get our driveway paved this summer. We're probably going to have Fayetteville Contractors, Inc. do it as we haven't …
read moreTook another trip to Raystown on Saturday. It was a really nice day of pretty much just hanging around. We tied up next to some family friends' boat and just lounged around for the day. There were a ton of boats up there, but from what I hear, not as …
read moreWe left Thursday morning for Lake Raystown Resort and just got back mid-afternoon today. We had four beautiful days; which made all our activities that much more enjoyable.
Thursday was spent setting up camp and taking a quick ride around the lake. We did a little tubing, but I ended …
read moreSo far the phone seems very nice; it has a very bright, hi-res, and hi-color display. The phone is fairly configurable, if not initially obvious. For example, I found that the phonebook can be configured to what I expected (that is, have multiple entries per name); you just need to …
read moreSo, I kinda went and busted my cellphone. I think it happened when I got out of my car and I rolled out, pinning my cell against the door jam. I now have several cracks across my LCD rendering it useless.
So my first instinct is to go to a …
read moreFinally got around the login problems I was having trying to automate polling values. Unfortunately I just realized that they don't have transmitted bytes in the RMON page; how disappointing.
Anyway, you can track the work-in-progess of my gathering script in NetMRG's SVN tree. It can login and download the …
read moreGot the Dell PowerConnect 2708, and just like the docs say; no SNMP. It has RMON support built-in and viewable from the web interface, but you can't gather the statistics remotely via SNMP. I guess they're trying to justify how cheap it costs. I guess I'll have to whip up …
read moreWhich can only mean one thing: [Brady] is having his 2nd annual LANnic!
Instead of the Hard Drive dept this year, it's going to be the rest of the guts to give Thor a (substantial) speed boost, and hopefully make the gigabit switch I bought from Dell worthwhile. The specs …
read moreThe unofficial start of summer went pretty nice, if busy.
Saturday was spent yard-saling again. I managed to sell my motorcycle, but that was about it. We went to a cookout in the afternoon; after getting soaked carrying the stuff in from a surprise shower. Guess it really was summer …
read moreAlthough I'm not part of any cool group like RPMforge.net, I still do like to build packages. Unfortunately I've been a little lazy recently and have gotten behind in some that really should be done.
I've been working trying to get a bunch of different Jabber-related packages together …
read moreYep, it really does work. Maybe not quite perfectly, but it's pretty nice that it works at all. Linux (in the past) has lagged behind new technologies, but it seems to be doing a good job at picking up new techs like this pretty quick.
I'm using both the Microsoft …
read moreYep; I was one of the geeks that went to see the midnight showing - but I didn't stand in line all day to get tickets. [Kevin] and I ordered tickets at like 10:30p last night after Ben invited us to go along; since he was saving seats we figured …
read moreI've been putting a good deal of time into ripping some Star Wars DVDs so I can watch them on my Xbox. Unfortunately, things don't want to cooperate. First I encoded everything into an OGM container using xvid4 and vorbis for the two english tracks (5.1 and directors commentary …
read moreWell, I went in to visit the doctor this morning to get some Zyrtec for my seasonal allergies, only to have him tell me I'm pre-hypertension. Well, at least I got my zyrtec and can breath now. I guess I just need to keep walking w/ Tiff.
read moreI took Friday off to be with my Wife, so we did some driving around, I got some summer-clothes shopping done, and we visited w/ Paige, Ryan, Holly, and Brooke in the evening. I also got a nice suprise in that the FedEx guy dropped my PS and DVD-burner from …
read moreStrangest thing just happened: both [Brady] and I had these CoolMax quiet Power Supplies that we had been very impressed with.. up until this past weekend.
[Brady] emailed me Saturday night asking if I had a spare power supply as his in Oak had bit the dust. After I got …
read moreEarlier today, David Donovan lost his battle with Mesothelioma Cancer. Our thoughts and prays go out his family and friends who have stood with him through his two-year struggle.
I've known David for as long as I've been dating Tiffany (almost 8 years). David could always be found with a …
read moreAs Chris noted, Spring is very nice. I had the chance the other day to get out and cleanup the outside of our house a bit. Raking stones and tanbark out of the yard - lots of fun - at least it was nice and warm out. Patches enjoyed being able to …
read moreWhy, oh why does Apple ignore open standards like Ogg Vorbis? iTunes is a very slick program for sharing music, especially once you get DAAP working properly on your linux box (I'm using mt-daapd right now), but even with a DAAP server that supports OGGs, and the OGG Quicktime Component …
read moreI was finally able to pickup my WRX yesterday. It looks very good so far, but I haven't had it in the sunlight yet to really checkout the paint job (more snow today :-P). It's a good thing insurance paid for it, though ;-).
read moreI guess I'm just generally having a 'not fun' week. Shucks.
Update 19:47
Looks like I should be getting towed out of the retention pond within the hour. My dad and I went to make sure it was still drivable (it is), but I bumped into the trailer park …
read moreTiff and I went down to visit my Sister over President's Day weekend. It was nice to go down; we haven't been down to see her in Virginia for several months, so I was happy to go see her at her place (as opposed to her coming up here to …
read moreXBMC recently added EXIF parsing to their 'my pictures' section, so now your photos are all rotated correctly! Yeah!
I also recently discovered DAAP and a couple projects for serving it up from linux: daapd and mt-daapd (look: RPMs!). daapd seems to be working well, but I'm not overly fond …
read moreActually, this was happening and resolved last weekend (Feb 4th-Feb 7th), but I'm just now getting around to blogging about it (bad Doug!).
Apparently resize2fs is broken in fc3. There's even a Red Hat bug about the problem. Of course, I discovered this the hard way ;)
Turns out resize2fs (used …
read moreIt was good to go see my Pap last night. He seems to be doing much better. He seems to have all his color back and was sitting up and talking with us very well (for having a breathing tube down his through, anyway). He instantly recognized each of my …
read moreWhen Tiff and I went over to my parents' for supper last night I thought it was odd to see my aunt's car therel. When we got inside I thought it was even more strange that only my two neices were there. Then I found out that my Pap was …
read moreYep, I did manage to get out to get my car yesterday. Dennis went with me; we left about 06:30 and managed to get there around 09:30. Pretty quick. Handed the sales guy papers and money, and we were on our way by 10:00. Pretty snappy. Oh …
read moreIn light of the fact that we're going to get our first significant snow on Saturday and this little playoff game (football) going on this weekend, I decided Friday might be better to get the car than Saturday. [Dennis] is taking off (thanks!) to go down with me and drive …
read moreI don't use the TopoUSA 4.0 Compilation DVD I made that often, so I didn't notice it before; but the DVD I made is missing elevation information. That makes the DVD about useless as a topographic map. Guess I'll have to try, try again. Or buy TopoUSA 5.0 …
read moreIn the past, I've typically used fuse taps when I need to add accessories to my car. This relies, of course, on the availability of unused fuses and the correct type of fuse (switched or non-switched).
Typically I run several extra compenents in my car; mostly not high-amperage items: Radar …
read moreI occasionally dabble in Mac, although I've never been a big fan. Of course, Apple had their Keynote w/ Steve Jobs today (which was followed by Chris and Sam on IRC) which announced a couple interesting products.
If you're an Apple user, you might actually be interested in the new …
read moreNope; not a New Years Resolution as that would doom it to failure.
I've been gradually starting this 'work out' routine (which should be called 'work in' as I haven't left my house yet) for the past 3 weeks starting out with just lifting weights twice a week. Of course …
read moreI recently upgraded both [NetMRG]'s and my own CVS repositories into subversion repositories. Everything seemed to go pretty smoothly. I setup ssh access for developers, and have both the webdav stuff setup for anonymous checkouts and the new ViewCVS setup for tree browsing. The only thing I recommend is …
read moreOh; that's probably ™. Crap.
Anyway, the Xbox is up at my house running EvoX and XBMC; and it seems to play my anime very well so far; and they look great! I need to try some higher-quality stuff (I have an HD-version of The Punisher), but so far it's really …
read moreThis whole 'Xbox as DVR' thing has been a real nightmare. I expected it to be fairly easy to pick up a 3 year old gaming console after Christmas, but that wasn't the case. After looking everywhere to find one, I finally ordered an Xbox from Walmart.com. It came …
read moreTiff and I spend the night at Lindsay and Kelly-Jo's place. We had a great time; it was nice just having a smaller group get together and hang out.
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