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New Site

Wed, 25 May 2011 11:59:17 +0100

Howdy All, I've migrated to new blogging software. You can find the new site at noshut.com.

Work/Resume Site Update..

Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:23:46 +0100

Tonight I did something I've been meaning to do for many months. I updated my work/resume/consulting web site. If you would like to check it out it is located here.

Photo Software Changed for Web Site

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:02:14 +0100

The last two days I completely re-worked the pictures archive on the site. We are now running Gallery. I haven�t updated the rest of the site yet or the older web log entries to represent this change but it is in place and the main page navigation bar should take you there.

Since there are approximately fifteen gigs in photos it is taking a significant amount of time to import them all. Between that and having to deal with bugs (like my camera naming Jpegs with an extension of JPE, which gallery doesn�t like) it has become quite a bit larger project than I originally anticipated. I am also taking this opportunity to clean out years of thumbnails and other garbage that has built up in the photo directories.

As of right now I�m about halfway through importing 2003 photos and will continue to import the other photos as time permits. From an overall perspective I�m about 30% done importing photos. Hopefully I should be able to finish up tomorrow evening.

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

Website Update..

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:16:27 +0100

Tonight I spent a couple of hours migrating to Polarblog and tweaking the main template for the web site. It is far from done but at least the basics are now in place.

Things won't look terribly consistent until I get it all fixed but we're on our way so please forgive.

Jeff in his sexy-ass 1980's glasses (yes, they really are from the 80s but I've told him to paint the sides blue and tell people they match his boat):

Food and Exercise: I haven't exercised much but I've been pretty good about keeping the calories down. Tonight we ate sushi and I may have went over but I won't know until I do the math.

Changes a comin'

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:17:11 +0100

After a couple days of spending time here and there dinking with a new weblog authoring software I have pretty much decided to move away from Personal Web Log to PolarBlog. It was built to be backward compatible and is supported by someone who used PWL before he decided to bail and do his own thing.

So far I'm really happy with it. As I find time over the coming days I'll start the process of migrating the main site over to it but for now you can see the "beta" deployment I have put up at this location.

Check it out, send me your hate mail if you wish and then go about your daily business . I know I haven't been a good blogger recently and given you daily updates of every little thing that happens in my life. If it means anything to you all I have cleaned my fishtank and spent some time last night reorganizing my living room with Laura and a new friend named Stacey so I haven't been a complete slacker.

With that being said go forth and multiply..

Network Changes..

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:43:07 +0100

Today the network underwent a fairly major change. I moved the server over to a new cable modem and in the process had to change the static IP address. With this it required a bunch of DNS changes and things so I fully expect most of you will not be able to get to the web site for the next 4-12 hours. This is a bummer but something that had to be done eventually so I decided to do it sooner rather than later since I�m on vacation right now and have the time to mess with it.

Biking:

Yesterday Chris and I went out to Crescent Lake and biked up to the lake. Only about a 13 mile ride but it was fun. Due to something I ate before we started or some other random sickness it was pretty miserable for me for the first half of the trip. By the time we reached the top I had recovered and had a pleasurable trip down. The entire event including stopping in Soldotna at the Dairy Queen on our way back took about 12 hours primarily due to the driving involved in this expedition. I took some pictures but they haven�t been uploaded yet.

DinoTurtle?

Quote of the Day:

People who use car phones annoy other drivers. �Crazy People/1990

Pictures from Washington DC Trip

Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:02:24 +0100

Tonight I rotated and posted the pictures from the DC trip. There are pics from my Mothers house, the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Air and Space museum, the new expansion out at the Dulles airport, the National Archives (where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are held) and Gettysburg PA. They are divided up between two major directories. The pictures from the 12th were taken using bracketing so there can be up to three copies of each picture. If it were earlier in the evening and I was at my main computer I would figure out which had the best color quality then delete the others but since I�m not you get it all and can decide for yourself :^). So, you can see the pictures here and here. If any of them are blurry/etc. and deserve to be deleted you can let me know, or just let them hang out.

Motient RIM Blackberry Using Elink:

After having Elink stop syncing my email to my blackberry via IMAP a couple of times and it resolving itself I had it stop receiving email and not start back up. After two days I decided to email them. Apparently the OS shipped with the Elink-enabled Blackberries includes the Check Mail application and after the Elink service has had a server related error (unreachable, password not accepted, etc.) you must use the Check Mail app to restart communications. The problem with this is that you can�t upgrade the OS on the handheld otherwise you get stuck without the check mail application and can�t reinitiate your email communication if the link is broken. Sucks doesn�t it? At least the old OS they are using works pretty well even though it is missing some of the newer features available to the handheld.

Cray 1 Logo from the Air and Space Museum:

Music? Bah Humbug!

Tue, 25 May 2004 12:38:49 +0100

Today I spent a couple of hours revamping the template for the site. It may not look different but on the backend quite a bit has changed to make it a bit easier to manage.

I have also added a little section in the navigation bar that lists the music currently playing on the Audiotron here at the house. This is the device hooked to the FM Transmitter that makes up Alan Radio and spends most of its day streaming music to other areas of the house. Of course this isn�t quite as good as a microphone sitting in my computer room so you can hear all the non-interesting keyboard clatter and random discussions about household matters and how cluttered the computer room is but you can see what is currently being played, which is at least a little cool :^). ATTray is the primary program I�m using to make this possible.

So, now we bring you sexy people some links�

Brutally Honest Single Ads
NSDA Caffeine Content in Beverages for those of us who are caffeine junkies.
Another more complete list of Caffeine contents in beverages
Do not look directly at happy fun ball.

Origami Made.. umm. Monotonous?

Garth Brooks sings about Wild Horses:

From a phone booth in Cheyenne
I made a promise to Diane
No more rodeos
I�d gone my last go round

The same promise that I made
In San Antone and Santa Fe
But tonight I saddled up and let her down

Wild horses keep dragging me away
And I�ll lose more than I�m gonna win some day
Wild horses just stay wild
And her heart is all I�ll break
Wild horse keep dragging me away

She watched me drive around her block
Getting courage up to stop
To make one more promise that I can�t keep

The way I love the rodeo
I guess I should let her go
Before I hurt her more than she loves me

Wild horses keep dragging me away
And I�ll lose more than I�m gonna win someday
Wild horses just stay wild
Her heart is all I�ll break
Wild horses keep dragging me away
And I�ll lose more than I�m gonna win someday

Exercise:

05/23/04 - Weights.
5/24/04 - Jogged at 6MPH for 10 minutes. 1.34 miles in 15 minutes total. Asthma was kicking my butt at the end.

Back from Vacation...

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:03:43 +0100

Vegas Trip:

We had a wonderful time on our Las Vegas trip. We toured casinos, went to the Ethel M cactus garden and chocolate factory, toured the Hoover dam, visited Bryce National Park, Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Salt Lake City and perhaps a dozen other places. We stayed in a hotel half the time and in a tent the other half at KOA campgrounds. While we were in Vegas we attended a Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids and Throw Rag concert at the House of Blues which was a good concert and ate lots of good meals. We didn�t spend near as much time at DefCon as we could have but with 4000 people it was crowded and we were staying at the Monte Carlo so hanging out was not as convenient as it could have been.

Over the last four hours I�ve sucked and sorted pictures, rotated them and stuck them into directories on the server. They are probably unbrowseable by people on dial-ups or by anyone with an older machine since some of the directories have 80+ thumbnails at this time. Browse at your own risk. I took over 600 pictures but did quite a bit of purging of the worst. There is still a lot of garbage in there but I don�t expect perfection on the first run. Most of them should be rotated but some of them have some fringing on the edges due to the polarization filter I was using. That is a bummer but I still got a number of good shots.

CCDP:

About a week before we went on vacation I completed the CID (Cisco Internetwork Design) test from Cisco. That means I�ve completed the requirements for the Cisco Certified Design Professional certification. Now I�m at the point where I need to start building a lab for the CCIE tests.

Yellow Ledbetter:

Pearl Jam�s Yellow Ledbetter has been declared Laura and my song. For those of you not familiar with this song I�ll give a little overview. It originally appeared on the Jeremy single and the lyrics change with every performance. It is well known for the fact that you can�t understand half the lyrics unless you have read them beforehand. At least the tune is decent :^).

Yellow Ledbetter Lyric Variations

Under the Banner of Heaven:

On our vacation we got quite the exposure to the land of the Mormons. With this being the case I�m now listening to Under the Banner of God which is a story about Mormonism gone wrong and in some cases very wrong. It is an interesting combination of education about the LDS, the offshoots, the fundamentalists, the polygamists and the history of the Mormon church you probably wouldn�t hear normally. I'm about 60% of the way through the book and they are finally getting to the real story that the book is supposed to cover rather than the history of the Mormon church and the people involved. I have to admit that for all Christian sects I like the LDS commercials the best due to their encouraging you to be a good parent, family member, etc. without beating you over the head with their religion although the neatly groomed people showing up on my doorstep randomly can sometimes be annoying depending on how late I�m sleeping that day :^).

Music of the Day:
Yellow Ledbetter :^)

Website of the Day:
IC-VG61 Small Form Factor Case (My new computer case)

Newly Commented Pictures..

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:04:44 +0100

Tonight I posted some new pictures from a Flattop trip last night, Ken and Aaron�s house and random other things. I also commented a bunch of the pictures that had previously lived comment less. I know I wouldn�t want to live comment less therefore I have supplied them with the comments they desired.

New Pictures:

Panoramic Pictures http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/Panorama/index.php

Flattop and Ken and Aarons House http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/012903-Flattop-KenandAarons/index.php

Old but Newly Commented Pictures:

Florida Pictures http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/101502-FloridaTrip/index.php

Elena and Alan Juggling http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/Juggling/index.php

Hope Trail Ride http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/HopeTrailRide/index.php

New but not commented yet pictures (I just wasn�t creative enough to comment scenery pictures today):

Stuckagain Heights Pictures http://www.artificiallives.com/pics/012603-StuckagainHeights/index.php

So, that is about it for tonight. Back to thinking about catching up on some sleep.