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I’ve been a Slicehost customer for a long time. I’ve enjoyed their service, and I’ve had a great experience. I received an email a while ago about the need to migrate Slicehost users to Rackspace since Slicehost was “going away” essentially (and they’ve been owned by Rackspace for a while now). I decided I should [...]
I got on a standing desk kick today. I’ve been thinking that I sit way too much, and that’s probably accurate because I sit pretty much all the time aside from exercising. I’ve been way too busy to exercise lately though. Anyway, I started looking online thinking that I might get lucky with Staples or [...]
I finally decided to buy an iPhone 4 from Verizon. You can think of it as contributing to the cause, but I do like Apple products anyway. It is not about being a fanboy. It is about liking well designed products and caring about quality implementations in both hardware and software. Anyway, even though I [...]
I got one of the best root emails today: Apparently users cannot be bothered with search engines anymore.
The iPad is wonderfultastic, but it is missing a good weather application. I found The Weather Channel Max for iPad application right away, and it was also free (not as in GNU, yes I know the difference). I gave it a try. I really liked it. The radar was one of the most important features [...]
I am on the fence on this one. I had some font issues with a PDF I am generating with the pdf-writer gem for a Rails project. It’s not all that serious. The database stores UTF-8 text, and users cut and paste from Microsoft Word (or whatever). Those characters are not rendered correctly in the [...]
Robert LaVerne “Bus” Patrick was my grandfather. He passed away on July 18, 2009. I attended his funeral today. They did a great job. I collected six of the Patrick family photograph albums. There are wonderful black and white photographs in there. Some are very old. I don’t even know many of the people in [...]
I’ve been testing RADUM pretty hard this weekend. I spent the last two days working on testing. I didn’t even go to sleep until 5AM this morning :-) I had cases to test when not working with Active Directory, and they served me well for a while. I am nearly finished with the initial version’s [...]
I am now powered by Media Wiki. This page was previously titled “MoinMoin Powered”. I do like MoinMoin and Python, but I chose to convert to Media Wiki instead. I plan on putting details about software projects, software development, and system administration in my new wiki, but I’ll be sure to write plenty here too. [...]
If you’ve read this blog or looked at this site before, you may be wondering what happened. Where did all the drawings and blog posts go? Most of my data is now gone, and I’m starting totally over. Why would I do this when I had about 3 years of posts and a couple of [...]