November 30, 2006

New Flickr pictures added

cat stretch closeup

Sorry I haven’t been posting. Wedding planning and work still keep me very busy. To make up for it, here are a few new pictures that I recently took of “the kids”. Jasper acting as weird as ever and Daph finally getting some additional facetime and annoying her brother.

Take a look

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November 21, 2006

Soda Flashback

Soda Flashback
Cathy and I are perusing the dollar store for cheap… umm… ‘expensively challenged’ things to use for our upcoming nuptials and in the soda aisle I saw this soda. Totally took me back to summers with the family. Going to Family Camp and stocking up on Ting soda.

I miss Ting.
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Dollar Store Warhol

Dollar Store Warhol
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November 16, 2006

Autostarting Mongrel clusters in FreeBSD 6.x on bootup

Jeez this has been a confusing day. I’ve been trying to figure out why the mongrel clusters powering my websites weren’t starting after a reboot of my servers. I’m initializing the reboots so don’t worry that my servers are unstable. :) they’re not. They’re well-behaved children.

FreeBSD has the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for shell scripts that will autostart services for you. Kinda like the “Startup” directory in windows. Great. So I found a shell script someone had written and sent in this email on the Mongrel-users mailing list. I copied that to the rc.d directory and placed the require mongrel_cluster_enable=”YES” line into /etc/rc.conf.

reboot.

Nothing. Apache was starting. Mysql was starting. WTF.
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November 1, 2006

Interesting facts about May 25th

in ascending order of coolness in my opinion…

  • 1992 - Jay Leno takes over as host of The Tonight Show (I’m a Letter-man. heh)
  • 2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
  • 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
  • 1932 - Goofy makes his debut in 1932
  • 1961 - John F. Kennedy made his famous put a “man on the moon” in this decade speech
  • 1977 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released in 1977

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