Saturday, March 14, 2009
Work Out
The gym has some weight machines, a couple of tread mills and some stationary bikes. More importantly though, it's got two racquetball courts. So today, we headed over to Mom's and visited with her for a half hour or 45 minutes. Then we headed over to the club house. I was on one of the bikes for 15 minutes or so. I vary between 10 or 15 minutes depending on how I'm feeling. I've been known to do 20 minutes too. But when a crew of us are there I tend to do shorter times on the stationary bike, because after the bike I do 10 or 15 minutes on the weight machines.
Then it's game time. After a quick break after some weight lifting, Ken (my older son) and I play a set of racquetball games. We'll either play a set of 5 games, or this old man is feeling his oats a 7 game set. Today I went up 2 game to zero and then my game fell apart. More accurately, age set in and I started missing easy shots more, and/or too tired to chase after nice shots by Ken. And he makes some really good ones. Unfortunately for me, he won three straight today to beat me 3 games to 2. He also leads the series 4 sets to 3.
Looking at the clock after the last game, the workout lasted 2 hours. I really enjoy the games, it's just a lot of fun. And to see Ken get better and better over time is also cool. Once I get in better shape, I'll whoop is ass.
Miscellany 3/14/2009
Neohawk.org is down. If you know me, you probably know who I host with but I will leave my providers name out of this because I actually like them. In fact, I got a huge laugh out of why my site is down. Support for my provider is available via IM, so on top of the email I sent mentioning that my server is down, I ask how the transition. The provider is in the process of moving all of their equipment to a new datacenter, requiring a massive move of many, many servers, vps, etc.
Customer Support: hmmmm
Customer Support: that would account for why I have an extra machine
Customer Support: I was supposed to take a machine, but the customer asked me why it was still up on the old IP... I replied, "I don't know, as far as I know, I've got the machine in my car"
Me: hahahahahahahahahha, now that is funny.
Customer Support: sorry,I guess the machines weren't labeled right or I just made a mistake
So it appears the server he was supposed to move (mine wasn't scheduled until next week) is still in the old data center while mine is in the car getting ready for the move. I just thought that was really funny, and since it's my personal server I'm not overly concerned. It does knock out janosakura.org as well since the dns for JANO is running on my server, but that's okay too, since we're not talking about a site that I'm going to lose money on.
On a related note, I have decided to stay with Byteflow for my neohawk.org site. While there are some huge advantages to using blogger for my blog, I'd prefer to keep my feet wet with django, etc., and byteflow is a great blog tool. If there were an easy way of moving it to goole app engine, I'd probably do that, but per piranha's comments on my last post I'd say it's more work than I really want to attempt. And like I mentioned in reply to piranha, I'm not displeased with Byteflow in any form or fashion.
I will be actually cancelling the server neohawk.org is on though. I only have about three sites hosted on there and one is being moved for different reasons. Meaning I have two minor sites (including neohawk.org) that really don't justify the amount I'm paying. Now that I have a real job, all my email is hosted by google apps, etc., I really won't need the server. I can move those two sites to small virtual private servers.
In fact, I recently moved JANO completely to google, so that VPS is freed up. I'll be moving my stuff there. It may be a while as I need to migrate JANO's dns to godaddy, but I can't do that for a little bit as I recently renewed the registration and there is a waiting period of 30 or 60 days or whatever it is.
Google Reader
I have been using google reader in place of my planets. I'm not sure I like it. I seem to get the same articles I've read as new articles which is really annoying. Some of it is simply the same news item from a different source, but some are clearly the exact same article from the same source. I'll stick with it for a while as the "sharing" and particularly "sharing with notes" is really handy. Plus I get the fancy box you see on the upper right of this blog to go with it, and if that ain't the cats meow I don't know what is.
Repulsive Republicans
If the GOP wants to woo me to their fold they need to get a grip on reality. Having Rush The Twit as their spokesman does the exact opposite. As does what's her name, Anne Coulter. And one more thing - read my lips: Separation of Church and State. As long as the GOP is defined by the Christian Right it will not have my support. Period.
Like you cared....
Cavs Win Again
The Cleveland Cavaliers won again last night over the Sacramento Kings. It was ugly actually, even considering Lebron's 51 points. But it came down to Lebron having to score 51 to pull out a win. The Cavs haven't played really well since Ben Wallace went out with that broken leg. While he can't score, he provides so much else on the defensive end that without him the Cavs look weak on defense.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Random Thoughts for Today
Today, just a series of random thoughts.
Racquetball
As I've twat on twitter, I have a running match with my son in racquetball. We play anywhere from 5 games to 7 games. Each game is 11 points, and you have to win by 2. I start off with 20 minutes or so on a bike machine, hit the weights machine for about 10 minutes, and after a quick break our match starts.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Migrate Byteflow to GAE
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Speaking of Which
Yesterday, I posted about City Websites. Today, it's about this website. As some of you have noticed, I brought down my Planets, Planet NEO and Neohawk IT. I did this mostly for time and money reasons. The server they are running on is memory challenged and Planet NEO in particular was getting very large, memory consumption wise. It had over 50,000 posts archived. So it kept crashing, and I was spending more time trying to keep it up than I want.
Monday, February 16, 2009
City Websites
Jill over at WLST put up a screenshot of Pepper Pike's new website. She also links to various city websites, mostly on the east side of Cleveland, but a couple of on the west side as well. Jill enthusiastically says:
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Techmeme: How Google Decides to Pull the Plug (Vindu Goel/New York Times)
I saw this article yesterday.
How Google Decides to Pull the Plug — GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products. — The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google's answer to Second Life; Dodgeball, a cellphone service aimed at young bar-hoppers …
It's where I found out that Google is pulling the plug on Notebooks. This ties into a post or two that have been in my head for a while. Posting this as a test of Flock's ability to post to blogger, but also as a reminder for when I finally write those posts.
Techmeme: How Google Decides to Pull the Plug (Vindu Goel/New York Times)
I saw this article yesterday.
How Google Decides to Pull the Plug — GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products. — The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google's answer to Second Life; Dodgeball, a cellphone service aimed at young bar-hoppers …
It's where I found out that Google is pulling the plug on Notebooks. This ties into a post or two that have been in my head for a while. Posting this as a test of <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock's</a> ablitiy to post to blogger, but also as a reminder for when I finally write those posts.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Kimono Exhibit
Starting today at the Canton Musuem of Art there is an exhibit of Kimono's by Itchiku Kubota. The exhibit runs from today through April 26th. There are a series of Japanese cultural events surrounding this exhibit, such a Japanese films, origami, cooking classes, a tea ceremony, etc. For more details see:
Check it out if you're interested!
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Balmy Weather
Today, while it is cloudy, is amazingly warm. It's like 52 degrees out. Just a few days ago it was close to zero. But alas, that won't really change my plans for the day. About to head out for a work out and some racquetball with my son, Ken.
Spent most of the day trying to catch up on personal email. Over 1000 messages, though the vast majority of spam. I did find a cool vid clip via NOOSS that I posted to my neohawk.info blog. I really need to catch up on some other things, like figuring out how to migrate JANO's site to google. It's currently a django-based system, but pre 1.0 with some of my own poor code.....
So as much as I want to head outdoors, it'll probably have to wait until tomorrow....
Sunday, January 18, 2009
寒い週末
この数日間はかなり寒い日が続いている。 金曜日は子供が「スノーデー」となり、寒さで休学になったほど寒い。 月曜日は祭日なので４連休になった子供が喜んでいるんだ。 僕は通勤中に交通事故より燃えきった横転している車を目撃した上でラジオより最低３つほど車が燃えた事故があったらしい。
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Email Post Test
I was actually planning to do that this AM on my own server, however, it is down once again. I have started looking into alternative hosting providers. My current providers just go down way too much. Too bad, since I actually like the guys.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Grazr
This time I am testing grazr......http://www.grazr.com. You can see it on my sidebar. I also installed the opml thingie that will use grazr.....