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March 29, 2009
The Steel Remains
Finished The Steel Remains, Richard Morgan's first foray into fantasy. "Gritty" doesn't quite capture the feel of the book, which I found myself luke-warm on initially and wholy engrossed in by the middle.
More, please.
Posted by dberger at 7:38 PM
March 25, 2009
It's not the years...
It's the mileage... Here I am in the Crowne Plaza Baltimore, having gotten up around 3:45 this morning for a 6am flight, connected through Cincinnati (and I didn't even get to see WKRP).
An event tonight, full day tomorrow, then back out on a 6:30 flight.
Want food, booze, and sleep - in that order.
Posted by dberger at 2:12 PM
March 22, 2009
Nothing like an honest day's work...
To make you appreciate your white collar job. Yesterday morning we met the Reynolds' for breakfast at Brown Bag Cafe, and then returned to their place and spent the day assembling a swing set. With help from Chris and Becky we finished up just in time for dinner.
No injuries, no left-over pieces, and it didn't collapse when I sat on a swing.
Posted by dberger at 8:44 AM
March 21, 2009
I hate computers
Woke up around 3 this morning to the dulcet tones of my desktop's cpu cooling fan failure alarm.
Staggered into the office and shut down the system before returning to bed. This morning I poked at it, and the fan seems to spin ok when flicked, but not under it's own power.
And of course it's a big arsed chunk of heat-sync, so return shipping is going to cost more than it's worth, not to mention that I'll end up without a machine for the duration of the RMA.
Posted by dberger at 8:28 AM | Comments (1)
March 20, 2009
Life After Death
Watched Dead Like Me: Life After Death this evening from Netflix.
We really enjoyed the series (which, of course, means it didn't last) but I'm being generous when I give the movie three out of five stars. The returning principals were all good, but the lack of Rube, the "not-quite-Daisy", and the plot all conspired against the film revival.
And despite the writing being marginal and the plot being slap-dash, I'm almost ashamed to admit how happy I was to share 90 minutes with those characters again.
Posted by dberger at 10:08 PM
March 14, 2009
Tap, Tap, Tap
's this thing on?
In theory, the blog has been transplanted to it's new home. I had to disable OpenID commenting (I'll figure that out later), but if you notice other sorts of breakage, please let me know.
Posted by dberger at 12:16 PM | Comments (1)
Movin' on up
I'm in the process of moving this blog - so connectivity will be spotty for the next day or so - and when it comes back it'll be at a slightly new address - www.oubliette.org rather than just oubliette.org.
This will probably break syndication for those of you reading this on live journal, and anyone who's got the RSS feed bookmarked will have to update their subscription.
Sorry - I was hoping to make the move completely transparent, but this change was needed for technical (DNS RFC) reasons.
Posted by dberger at 8:31 AM
March 7, 2009
Teachable Moments
This would very possibly convince me to buy Guitar Hero.
Posted by dberger at 9:48 PM | Comments (1)
March 6, 2009
GMail FTW
After most of a day with my email pointing at google, I realized I hadn't gotten a single spam all day and logged into my gmail account.
There are some 40 messages in the spam "folder."
...perhaps I should have made this switch a long time ago...
Posted by dberger at 11:11 PM | Comments (2)
The Avalanche Is Starting
Ok, it's really not that significant but after some initial investigation I'm moving around a bunch of "domain services" - migrating them off the box that's going away at the end of March.
Continue reading "The Avalanche Is Starting"
Posted by dberger at 9:49 PM
March 4, 2009
Hosting Migration Update
Google Apps looks pretty good, but their mailing list functionality seems pretty busted.
And hosting MovableType on my ReadyNAS ain't gonna work.
Posted by dberger at 9:29 AM | Comments (1)
March 2, 2009
Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes
I learned a week or so ago that the machine that hosts this blog, among other things, is going to be homeless at the end of March. It's an old white-box PC, sitting in the back room of a small IT company in Orange County that a good friend of mine worked for for many years. They're moving offices, and putting all their internal servers on virtual machines in a data center, where rack space, network and power cost real money.
Continue reading "Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes"
Posted by dberger at 9:57 PM