Last Winter, I bought a nice sanke female from Keirin Koi while I was at the Central Florida Koi Show in Orlando Florida. This is the smaller one in the pictures below, with persimmon (more orange) red and the stepping-stone sumi pattern. Even though the red is not as crimson as most Americans tend to [...]
Sometimes it’s useful to create a virtual network interface on your Solaris box, so that you can associate multiple IP addresses with the same host and not have to go through all the trouble of buying another NIC.
Here’s a quick HOWTO. Let’s assume our network card is eri0, and we want to create a virtual [...]
I’m a blogger. I’m also a systems administrator at a University. Thus, when the University decided to charter a project to offer each member of the institution a blog, I was selected to sit on the committee. We boiled all of the software choices down to Drupal, Movable Type, and Wordpress MU.
In my evaluation of [...]
Sure you say… We all know how much Republicans love to rewrite history. The Bush administration has been little but a series of lies and coverups since 2000, but I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree with Erich’s assessment over at pigeffer.com.
The long and short of Erich’s article is that Bush and Dick Cheney [...]
Apparently the Bush administration loves corporate lobbyists so much that they’ve started letting them sell meetings with the president.
From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 – The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees [...]
Patrick Mullikin, who aparently sold Riverwalk Records last month has not sold the other names associated with his business, most notably “The Howard Bean Cafe” and “Great Green Mountain Bob Dylan Wanna-Be Contest”.
One word… BUMMER! regardless of the fact that I visit Montpelier just about every weekend, I don’t think I would have ever known [...]
So after being frustrated yesterday by not having any pretty Google Analytics reports to look at, they finally crunched up some data for me, and this morning I was able to start kicking the tires.
First assessment… WOW! They generate a report for just about anything you could possibly what to know, including things like what [...]
After reading about Google’s new Analytics tool yesterday, I signed up for an account and got spiralbound.net and twistedstitches.net logging to it. I quickly logged in this morning, all excited to see my reports (I’m pathetic, I know) but there were no reports to be seen. DAMN! Anyhow, I figured out that I have to [...]
So you’re running the Oracle Application Server on Solaris 8, and you’ve decided to be a good systems administrator and install the latest 8_Recommended patch cluster from SunSolve. Well, I’m very sorry to inform you that you have just broken your application server. After bouncing the system, you will most likely get the following error [...]
For the past year or so, I have been using a Pentax Optio “S” series digital camera. For the most part, I have been quite happy with it, and while 4 megapixel is considered a bit on the low side by modern standards, I really had no intention of upgrading it because I liked it’s [...]
Lately I’ve been all excited about wind powered transportation, and yesterday I rediscovered the raging battle for fastest wind powered watercraft.
We all remember when a really cool looking boat called “Yellow Pages Endeavor” that could only sail on one tack broke the record in October, 1993 at Sandy Point, Victoria.
They sailed it on a tiny [...]
Via TreeHugger
I got all excited to learn that a German fellow named Dirk Gion has gathered up a mountain board and some kitesurfing gear and taken to windskating across Austraila. I’ve always thought that the wind was an underutilized source of power. I’ve raced sailboats since high school, and I’m aware of certain iceboats exceeding [...]
I’ve been waiting for Casey over at Maison Bisson to finally release his new “This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak” bumper sticker, and he finally has.
Casey Says:
This is probably the perfect bumper sticker for your neighbor’s SUV, at least until your neighbor comes over with the perfect chainsaw for your front door (yeah, try to run [...]
A truck full of missiles exploded in a South Korean tunnel Wednesday, but luckily nobody was harmed. Officials have been trying to downplay the explosion, but despite their efforts, it has become international news, resulting in widespread criticism of the South Korean government.
Apparently, the truck was one of the four cargo vehicles carrying warheads and [...]
For a long time I have been a huge fan of the Mountain Goats, a sometimes one-man band headed up by poet, singer and guitarist John Darnielle. Last Friday I finally had the opportunity to see them when the played at the Fuel Rocket Club at Dartmouth College along with Prayers and Tears of Arthur [...]
