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I wish everyone a very safe and happy Bunny Day.
Brettski
I over slept two hours this morning, I can’ t believe it. I am sure I needed the rest, plus I blame my 20 year old alarm clock.
I find that it’s good for me the oversleep once in a while, it puts into prospective why the heck I wake up at 05:00 every morning. On a regular morning I will catch the 06:06 or 06:33 train into Chicago to go to work. I usually walk into my cube around 07:15, 07:30. It’s really not that bad of a commute, I park where I want at the train station, get a roomy seat on the train, there isn’t mobs of people on the street or waiting for the buses.
This morning, waking up at 07:00 is a totally different story. I made it to the train station around 07:30, no parking spots anywhere around the station. So I park a half-mile from there. It’s suppose to rain a lot today, so when I get home it should be interesting. The train arrived at 07:40, and we are the first stop for this one, so this part is cool, I was able to get a somewhat private seat, which is good for spreading out while writing coding on the train. We get into Chicago, and WOW, is there a lot of people about, I mean crammed. It’s now raining out, and having a mile trek to the office, I figured I would take the bus. I see everyone else it too, the line is sixty feet long! Good thing the buses can cram many people on them. The first bus filled up and we waited for a second, and that one filled up with me on it–Off to the office I go. Funny thing is, I woke up two hours late and still made it in before my systems administrator. 🙂
Well, all-in-all, not a horrible commute, anyone from New York is probably yelling, “You pansy, try the New York subways and The Path.”
No thank you.
In the end it’s good to be late once in a while, it keeps you in check on why the hell you wake up so darn early every morning.
I wish everyone a safe, happy, and beautiful St. Patrick’s Day.
Here is to a little green in all of us. <clank>
I have been using GoDaddy.com for a few weeks now and I am quickly realizing that you get what you pay for. They have a lot to offer for a small price, but this causes shortfalls in some undesirable areas. The biggest one for me is backing up databases. GoDaddy doesn’t allow any external connections to their databases (a little fact not mentioned in pre-sales info), and do not give you the ability to create .bak files (mssql). The only way to back up data and schema’s is though text files, and frankly that just sucks. I have read a post here and there that there are tools which can purchased which will automate the task a little bit more, but it just doesn’t seem right.
Since I write my code in .NET I went with a Windows host, and have been checking out DotNetNuke, a pretty neat portal application. I would like to use this for my website, but am very hessetent because I don’t know how to get a solid backup of the app. I don’t want to spend hours configuring a portal to have something crash and loose all my work. What if I want to move it to a new host, I will not be able to that either (which I am sure is attentional on GoDaddy’s part).
So I am in search of a new web host, and it hasn’t been very easy, there are just so many of them out there. Another issue, is I really don’t want to pay more then $10 a month (I know, you get what you pay for). Well I am not looking for mass amounts of space or bandwidth, just a place to host my self-built apps and a family web site.
The party is over, lent begins, and millions of people are going through the ceremony of Ash Wednesday. I was raised Catholic, and understand the tradition and would never belittle anyone’s belief. If it makes you happy–whole, more power to you. My beliefs are my own, and your beliefs are yours.
“Happy Ash Wednesday”
Na, that doesn’t work.
“Merry Ash Wednesday”
Nope.
“Peace be with you”
Maybe, that could work
“Shalom”
whoops, wrong religion.
I am trying to discover something to say to someone on Ash Wednesday. No real greeting associated with the day. Any Ideas? It’s better then what I usually, unintentionally say, “You have a little–something there on your forehead.”
post updated on 2/23/07
My wife showed me this article (JENNIFER MORRISON, JESSE SPENCER) in the paper this morning, and I will have to say, Jennifer Morrison’s parents are pretty cool (though Jennifer may not agree). For you that don’t know, Jennifer Morrison is on of the star doctors on the TV show House. One of the few television programs I watch, and alway watch with my wife. Jennifer Morison’s parents live in the town next to mine, also where Jennifer grew up. You never know, the next television star may be living right next door to you, even in the mid-West.
Well another two and one-half hours in the bowels of Symantec and nothing. I think I may have to call them myself and try to get to the security group. Tech support is NOT the right channel. Resolution on this issue is two forked: A, find out the reason the definitions find SuperScan 2.06 a back door, and B, learn how to properly exclude areas of a computer from the wrath of Symantec Anti-Virus.
Stop the madness!
Hey look a new home. I am a few year user of Blogger and was getting tired of some of it’s shortcomings. You know, no titles, categories, difficult back links. Well difficult to me, they are just not straight forward enough and I can’t figure out how to link to old posts.
I came across WordPress again while reading a blog linked by reddit. I liked the layout of the blogs and that it’s FREE. So here I am giving it a go, and I may have a new place to write my crap. Nobody is reading, so I am glad to waist more space on the ever-expanding Internet.
I just noticed, no in-line spell check! What’s with that, I thought I read they had that here. Perhaps I need to turn it on. I see you click the button and it’s then checks spelling. That could use some work, as I am getting spoiled with the in-line checkers at Yahoo!, Google, and even in Fogcreeks, Fogbugz. Ugh, I can’t add words to a dictionary either. Well, it’s annoying, but not a show stopper.
Well like any new home I guess it will take a to get accustom to it. Being that I really suck at spelling and grammar is always a challenge, the immediate spell-check is a little something to help me along. Enough on that already. I already see benefits that I can put up pictures, documents, perhaps even video. 50 Megs of space should be good for me, it’s not like I will have a whole lot of content anyway. Just stupid musings from an IT slug.
Neat, I get pages too. I like that, can segregate stuff and not necessarily have to or more blogs. May be a one-stop-shop for my stuff. I may even pull out Photoshop and put together a banner pic for myself.
Stuff From an IT Slug 