Jan04
- Should I do a photo a day? Probably, right?
- maybe write the occasional essay or something longer and more structured than a blog post with bullet points
- I'm definitely paying no more attention to celebrity news. That one's for sure.
- I'd like to eat better and work out more - cheesy, but always-legit resolutions.
- shoot more. If I had one resolution to keep in mind, it'd be this one. So easy to let the little parts of life interfere with this goal
- get back involved with the movie community
- keep in touch better, both with new people and old people - facebook, texts, calls, notes
- read more
- sleep less
- cook more
- waste less time dicking around on the internet
That's sort of a resolution list and sort of a musing list on things to keep in mind as the new year starts. If I could put "be smarter" on there, i would, but I'm trying for concrete things. The many "mores" on that list have to be offset with some of the "less" bullets, and even though there are fewer of them, I think that with even an hour less dicking around online a day, for example, I could accomplish things. Things like going to the gym can force the "no dicking around" rule, too, and once the spell is broken, it's easy to not get back online - witness the last few weeks and my total absense from the online world. Today, for example, I try to see off friends and family as they head out of town, and in between, I do a big old backup and update of everything that I can backup and update - webservers, phone, PCs, laptops... you name it.
Anyway, some foods for thought, anyway. Happy 2010.
Jan01
Jeez.
Merry New Years' Day! It's been 3 hours so far, and a pretty good three hours at that. I'm looking forward to starting this decade off 1000000% better than the last decade, and it's been pretty much a hit so far. I mean, 10 years ago, I was *almost* having an orgy (don't ask), but since that didn't happen, and what DID happen happened, I'm definitely happier with where I am than where I was.
Time to look forward and embrace what I have. Time to reach for what I want. Time for super cheesy-ness. Fuck off, cynics. I'm getting up early to make breakfast nachos for my guests. First I have to grocery shop. Eff.
Sleep time! Xoxo!
Dec17
Hello from Glen Mills!
I'm currently sitting at my mom's kitchen table with two laptops (my leviathan and its opposite, the eee701) in front of me, trying to work through Joomla & VirtueMart's pecadillos. Pecadilloes? What the hell. I'm listening to A Very Bootie Christmas streaming off the FileVault and trying to unzip a 9GB file on this slow-ass Celeron processor. I swear that my 701 is almost as fast as this thing. Not really true, since I'm also currently virtualizing OSX.4 in the background, but it FEELS that way.
Anyway, I'm happy to be here so early this year - it's the advantage of working for myself. I'm hoping to go out with a bunch of PHS folks before the end of the vacation (I've already seen Steve - random, right?), and to even see some family. Gotta buy some last-minute things here over the next couple of days. Christmas - the time for stress over money and presents. I'm also thinking about things with which I can open the new year and new decade - ways to help point things in the right direction. Maybe financial fixes (easier said than done, I know) and tweaks to the way I approach my work time that will allow me to carve out creativity time, too.
That's it for now - thanks for coming back and back for more.
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Dec13
I have an Asus M3A79-T Deluxe motherboard on which I'm using RAID 5. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it ain't.
The fucker breaks RAID almost as soon as I fix it. The first time it happened, I didn't think much of it because I rarely restart my computer, because I couldn't see a non-functioning drive in Windows and because I wasn't getting any other sorts of errors, so it was no big deal. Eventually, I changed my mind and tried to fix it. Eventually, I fixed it. Shortly, it was broken again. Both times, it's drive2 that's "critical" and the BIOS-based editor is totally friggin useless.
So this morning, since the Eagles aren't on till later, I decided to fix it again. I'd done it once, right? The problem is that I have no idea now how I fixed it then. I remember pain. So I search and I search. There's some Intel program (doesn't work with AMD Phenom chips - fuck), there's some nVidia program (doesn't work with anything but low-level integrated nVidia chipsets - what? And who trusts a video card company with their disk management anyway?), and then I found RAIDXpert. That's a download link, in case you care - it was a pain in the ass to find. RAIDXpert is some browser based thing that seems to be working on my array right now as I type. I just logged in (logged in? You'll need admin/admin as the username and password to log into the browser-based program that points to Localhost, FYI), mucked around, and eventually started rebuilding the array. it's at 15%.
I'm going to go away and come back, just to see what happens. I have a laptop with Ubuntu to fix anyway.
It seemed to have worked, so I'll restart and then update to let you know.
And it seems to have worked. The BIOS is reporting a RAID5 array in perfect working order and there were no issues with windows or my data. So it's RAIDXpert FTW.
Dec10
It's the holiday season and you should be listening to Christmas music at work. The best way to do that is to go to http://media.clapboard.org and navigate to the Christmas folder. I have modern Christmas crap, classic Christmas crap, mashup Christmas crap... you name it!
That's all. For now.
update: I've done a complete backup of the server so i'm safe while I'm away, and I've updated the server software to run the newest and best code. Now listing out 88GB of music spread over 17,000 songs takes as little time as it can (even though it's still not super fast). Let me know if you somehow don't have an account but want one.
Dec04
 Here are some pictures of the bench that I just built in the garage. Along with the green screen and the Promptin' Cart, I've just about finished the re-vamp of the garage that I've been planning for like a year. Go me.
Click below for pictures.
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