Tonight (and this trip) is really my first Vegas experience.  I was here for Defcon a few years ago, but it was at a hotel off the strip (across the street from the Hard Rock).  I did have some fun gambling when I was here last, but tonight was my first good-strong experience. I played…

Fixing the file system issue I had was FUN. Full of Unexpected sNafus. Parted works great! Except when you need to move the STARTING position of where a partition is. Ouch. For those of you out there who have run into this, in order resize a partition where you need to change the start of…

After making the switch to Mac at home, I’ve been able to streamline a lot of what I was doing at the house. The only complaint I have is that Apple hates ergonomics. Don’t believe me? Go look at the keyboard they ship. I had to dump the wireless one for a wired ergo one…

After hitting pause on my iTunes for the fifth call that came in, I figured there had to be an easier way to get my music and phone to sync up. It’s not a big deal, except I usually forget to turn my speakers back up (or resume my music), and I work in silence…

First off, I am an aspiring writer. Forever a student of the English language, proper form, and knowing the rules so I can break them. One of the hardest things that I’ve had to do is cut. With the advent of DVDs, we can connect with the directors of a film in a way never…

Well, my Trixbox upgrade to 2.6.0.7 did not work as planned.  When I WAS home this week, I had a few calls just drop on me.  So I did the whole backup/rebuild fun today.  Hopefully that will curb the problem and we’ll be all good to go.

But boy, D/FW was deserted.  The normal hustle and bustle was not replaced by running or angry passengers. Crickets. Did see a bunch of people sleeping at SFO, though that is not terribly unusual.  Anyway… off to enjoy the weekend and recover from a week of travel!

Not too shabby!  Still a couple of quirks here and there, but I will attribute it to my browser and caching.  Nicely done folks!

So I took the plunge.  My old Dell PC is sitting next to the window and has not been powered on for over a month.  I made the switch.  I bought a MacBook Pro earlier last year after doing some work at Apple, and immediately fell in love with OS X.  I’m a Unix guy…

In March? In Texas? Global Whatting? Yes. March 6 to be exact. Just under 4 inches of snow fell at the house. Crazy weather we had here, but the kiddo enjoyed it. I certainly did not enjoy being “jailed” at DFW Airport waiting for a gate, but thankfully it was only about an hour on…

March 4, 2008. BIG FAT fargin snowflakes falling. Already have about 1/4-1/2″ sticking on the grass and trees. Guess those folks playing it up to say 1-3″ might be right! Take THAT Global Warming!

An interesting story about seafood exports from China. To combat all the sewage dumped into the lake, officials have devised an utterly nonsensical fix-it. They’ve released 1.5 million silver carp, each of which can eat up to 100 pounds of algae. The problem here is that fish eat algae, bigger fish eat the smaller fish,…

Barack: I am glad that you are paying attention to my state and understand its importance to your campaign. Recorded calls by you and/or your wife begging for my vote will change neither my disposition, nor my vote. The calls (2 out of 3 anyway) seem to conveniently interrupt family time, taking my attention away…

Yeah…. so turns out that the Davis weather system cables should REALLY not be used with a USB->Serial bridge. Really. So after some heroics, I have moved the weather station collection routine to another machine, and dump the results into the DB from there. Seems to be working just peachy now. The real trick is…

Well, in the time I spent goofing with the weather station, we lost some data (specifically, data we need to graph).  So right now, the script is barfing due to missing data points it needs to plot. Instead of rewriting the script to deal with this, we’ll just wait. Check back in about 6 hours.

Looks like the national Do Not Call list does not apply to politicians.  It sure would be nice if they honored it anyway.

So, as most of us in the world that dislike being interrupted during dinner, I am on the do not call list.  In the last day, I have been called by Michelle Obama (well, a recording anyway) asking for my vote for Barak. Do not call list. So is something that is now law not…

Man, what a cluster.  James came over and we started pounding through it.  It was not until I did some major hacking of the scripts I use until I figured out why…  What is worse, the whole PHP problem turned out to be that I was not passing it a php.ini file to work with.…

Yep… Moving things over to the new Mac Pro, and in the process, I’m having some n00b challenges.  I hope to have the service restored by Monday.

Brandon Bird has come up with another classic, a Law & Order/Batman Crimefighters T-shirt. With Jack McCoy protecting Gotham City, nothing could go wrong! (Via T-Shirt Blog.)