Long Week

Yeah... I know it's been a short work week. But for some reason it feels just the opposite. I guess getting bounced around multiple support tickets (Sun, Blackboard) can take a lot out of a person. Even when you don't have much to do. It will be nice to resolve those things and get back to other projects. 

I finally got my iMac back. If I haven't said it before, Time Machine is the best program out there. I just need to find a better, faster disk than my little PATA. It's going to take all night to back up my drive again.

Oh well. 

Zen time!

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I have to say bash's built in substring functions are wonderful: I get what I want with ${disk:0:4} without using `cut`

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readding all my disks into veritas so I can get the same default private regions.

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Had a very nice, very long weekend

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I haven't herad Mercyful Fate in years.... must urge satanic temptations... ha

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Hmmm... it looks like I can't post to twitter for now... I need to code a timeout on my little BLOG script.

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The library got a lot of new "old" metal. So now I get to listen to the music I loved as a kid.

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got a couple of new disk... testing them to see if they are good.

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You know... I loved LOM, but stop changing the freaking user interface wit each release!

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The start of a wonderful new day... it's about to rain outside and the weather is w o n d e r f u l

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A funny thing happened... I saw the very same scrubs episode I watched this morning while at the gym.

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Saturday Night and I'm doing laundry at the laudromat.

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Mama's Boy is a movie I need to see some time.

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I need to compile a list of Elliot's odd self-referential stories.

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Watching scrubs, Season 5...Paig Cox is hot.

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Well, I just modified my twitter account... posted a nice pictuer of Wedel on his blog.

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I LOVE PERL!!!

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I'm blogging this and twtting at the same time

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test from home

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I have to say... Ubuntu eye-candy is really great. I think I spend half my time placing windows around the cube than doing actual work.

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testing my workstation rebuild

Computer Rebuild Day

My iMac died on me this morning. So that was fun. I know it's the disk, and it's been flaky for the past couple of months. Hopefully the Mac servicecenter will replace it this time, instead of telling me it's nothing more than a corrupted OS.

Work was dead today. Really dead. No one was there. That's the nice thing about an University during the summer time. So I took the time to rebuild my workstation to Ubuntu 8.04. I originally put 7.04 on it and a subsequent upgrade turned it into a flake monger. Compiz would die for no reason, the screen saver wouldn't take at time. It was time to rebuild.

The problem with rebuilding is I have to reinstall all the programs I use on a day to day basis. It's easy to do with Ubuntu... with any Linux OS nowdays... but it's still a pain. The biggest one is getting all the perl modules loaded.

Hence why I didn't update my blog until now. The CLI program I wrote is in perl.

Today is a day to just sit around the porch and watch the ducks quack.

Oh... and yesterday's server that would not start? Corrupted XML in the config file!!! What caused it? The program.... a known bug. Fun.

Off to Zen.

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Don't you hate it when your server doesn't restart and you have to stay at work... waiting for tech support to call you back, so you can bring up the only system that people want to use? I do. 8-)

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waiting for 4:30 so I can restart blackboard. There's nothing finer than a large, monolithic application that has a single access point.

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Back from lunch... a nice picnic held indoors. There's nothing like a free box lunch.

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Looking at why people can't log into the Spam Quarantine Page. I've never seen PHP code before... it looks nice and clean.

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Sigh... Matt, my coworker, just bought ZZ Top's Greatest Hits.

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It's clasical music time... www.cpr.org/listen . That's what Wedel is listening to now. All that jazz was making him a little... existential. "I bark, ergo WOOF"

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waking up at work.... I got me some nice coffee. The weather is wonderful!! Cloudy and around 50 F.

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looking at docs for changing JES logging specifications

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ok... it's a Devildriver afternoon!

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acking portal load average alerts... darn kids want to know their grades...

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it's a 90's type of day for music: Helmet, Hole, L7, Prong, Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees.... where's my Soundgarden?

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heading home for lunch to walk the doggie and eat some yummy Medici bread!

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wrote out CLI script to easily post to this blog

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fist blog posting