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Was an early morning yesterday I was up before the dawn And I really have enjoyed my stay But I must be moving on... --- "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp
After writing about a somewhat harrowing bit of excitement when one of the RAID arrays decided to throw a drive, I reckoned that it was time to add another category for posts of a nerdy technical nature rather than clogging up "Doing the News!": Revenge of the Nerds! This is where you can read the stories about the behind-the-scenes technology that permeates just about everything I do (after all, I *WAS* an IT weenie/database geek…
My apologies to all who may have been inconvenienced by my Facebook account being hacked by miscreants for whom James May's desire they suffer from "bilharzia of the ballsack" is far too kind a fate for them. And yes, I do believe them to be apocalyptic dingleberries. I've since changed the password (which is just *SUCH* a joy of a procedure!) so those numpties can crack on to pouring lemon juice on open wounds. Apparently…
If you're thinking the site looks a wee bit different today...your eyes are *NOT* deceiving you. This site was my first shot at Wordpress and it was sort of a Frankenstein's creation between the Genesis-based theme Revolution Pro and the NextGen image gallery. And it worked pretty well together. The website I re-designed for the photos for the kids and the family also used NextGen (to be fair, it's so image-heavy that it's really stressed…
Two new categories make their debut in the BLOG: Harrowing Tales of Customer ServiceWhat's For Dinner? The Harrowing Tales details the good, bad, and the outright ugly of "customer service" interactions which I am absolutely convinced will kill me far more quickly than cancer or someone brandishing a gun! The "Chick Fil-Audit" series of BLOG posts live in the Harrowing Tales category which give a play-by-play breakdown of life spent in the massive Chick Fil-A…
All of the trip reports and photos are now available in the Walkabout section. This six-day journey made a grand loop via Chattanooga TN and St Louis MO and back again through Columbus OH all the way to Washington DC. It was about 2,400 miles in total (when you add the driving round various places in addition to the straight-line distance) and roughly 33 hours in the chair. Enjoy! :)
Whilst taking a bit of a break from the 'ohana conversion project, I decided to redo sunfox.com so that I'd have somewhere to stick the content from the conversion that truly doesn't belong there like the trip reports where I was the only one traveling or the occasional rant. I've played with a few Genesis-based themes but I think I'm going to stick with Revolution Pro. It's nice, it's minimalist, and for the time being…
