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  • Cambria

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    So, I found an article today on the new core web fonts that Microsoft is bundling with Windows Vista.  The full write up is here, but anyone who knows me and my family much will recognize that Microsoft just stole the name of one of my kids for a font.  That chaps my hide.  Now,…

  • Coughin’

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    I like to pretend that I know a little something about woodworking, and occasionally even try to build something that won’t be condemned by the urban housing authority.  Since it is nearing Halloween and all, I thought it was amusing to see a new story pop up on wikihow about how to make your own…

  • 2007 Sysadmin Of The Year

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    Last week there was a story on slashdot pointing to www.sysadminoftheyear.com, a site where folks can go to nominate their IT staff for Sysadmin of the Year.  They were offering free T-Shirts to the first 2500 nominations, so I asked Adrian to nominate me.  Here is what he sent in: "Though he’s not as fat…

  • The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory

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    So, a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to drive from St. Louis to Salt Lake in a minivan.  We did the trip in a little less than 19 or so hours, which means that we pretty well obeyed the speed limit and didn’t get ourselves too tired/worn out, etc.   However, 19 hours…

  • Recursive wget

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    I love wget.  I’ve used it in the past to quickly snag the contents of entire web directories, and tonight I learned a few more tricks it can do.  Namely, it can recurse down as many levels deep from the first page as you like, it can ignore the reported length of items it is…

  • Using BackupPC Locally To External Firewire Drive

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    So, I recently discovered the wonderful backup tool called BackupPC (Thanks, Hans!) and have set it up to backup all the workstations at my office to a central server with a large storage capacity.  However, I’ve only set it to backup the important work-related files from each workstation.  I would like to be able to…

  • Deploying Ruby On Rails to Feisty Using Capistrano, Apache, and Mongrel

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    So, I’ve been hacking on a new RoR application for work for the last week or so, and it’s time to get a deployment environment set up so I can deploy as rapidly as I can develop.  I’ve been reading Agile Development With Rails and whilst perusing the chapter on deployment, ran across this site…

  • Programmer Mel

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    So, I was just getting settled in for my workday (aka getting my daily fix of /.) and I ran across a link to a neat article about Mel the Programmer.  Well written and entertaining, this article adds some neat perspective on where programming has been compared with where it is now.  Set in the…

  • Finally Moved; Server Alive!

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    Ok, so we finally loaded up all our stuff into the biggest U-Haul money can rent, and headed north to the sunny climes of Boise, ID.  While the drive for me was mostly uneventful (except for when the car hauler behind the truck started fishtailing and whipping the back of the truck around – that…

  • New Home

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    So, as I have accepted a new job working for Miridia Technology in Meridian, ID, we headed up this weekend to find and purchase a house. Turns out that while we were there, our house here went under contract, so we are all set to move in June.  I have posted about a gazillion pictures…