Category: Bloggity Blog Blog
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Finally Moved; Server Alive!
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…
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New Home
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…
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Birthday List ’07
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s birthday list – 2007 This year I’m pretty much into the same stuff I’m always looking for (in fact, much of this list is the same as last year’s list) – digital devices of some sort or another, tools (especially the kind that require at least 120 V AC)…
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lshw
Have you ever needed to know the hardware configuration of a linux box that sits halfway across the country? I recently needed to determine exactly what kind of ram was needed for a server sitting 4 states away from where I live – and not only what kind of ram it used, but how much…
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Santa is Coming To Town…
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s Christmas List – 2006 I’m a geek. I like geek stuff. I’m also a guy. I like typical guy stuff like movies and video games. Here are the top items I’m really looking for this year: iFM Dock – an FM tuner/remote control for my iPod. Laptop Stand –…
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Kimball Birthday List ’06
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s birthday list – 2006 This year I’m pretty much into the same stuff I’m always looking for (in fact, much of this list is the same as last year’s list) – digital devices of some sort or another, tools (especially the kind that require at least 120 V AC)…
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Family History
For those of you who are looking to do a bit of work on your family history, I have set up PhpGedView on my server – click here to get to it.
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Ruby on Rails
So, a few weeks ago I was looking for a way to escape the XML pain that is involved in writing just about any web application in Java these days. Honestly, I was beginning to feel like in trying to make Java web apps so easy to write, the increased complexity to handle all the XML was actually…
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Isaac Henry Larsen
Congratulations to us! Isaac Henry Larsen was born today at 9:46 am in the Alta View Hospital. He weighed 9 lbs, 9oz, and mommy and baby are doing just fine. I could pontificate about how cute he is, but I’d rather show you: Christine was only in labor for about 4 1/2 hours, and she…
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PSyncX
Ever since I got a monster drive for my home server (which, btw, powers this website) I have been looking for a good backup solution for OS X. This morning it appears I have found one: PSyncX While I have just set up a simple backup to test it, it appears that this utility will…