While in Edmonton one of the things that I did was wander through West Edmonton Mall and checked out one of the art stores. A few artists I made note of to look at further and/or spend a few hundred thousand dollars on to decorate my house (assuming a fair bit more disposable income than […]
Seen in Edmonton… Artists Read Post »
Wandered up to North Van yesterday and Oneiros took me to the Capilano Fish Farm, just down from the suspension bridge (and free). Took a few pics which I present to you here. More after the click. Looking upriver toward the dam.
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Other than a few minor details (cat waking me up at 4am, mis-communication as to where to meet) the trip went well. We ended up leaving mission at 6:30am, and with a fairly steady stream of Tim Horton’s coffee, coffee from a greasy spoon in hope for breakfast, a couple of cokes, pringles, and more
Made It To Edmonton Read Post »
So I have to leave the house to pick up my traveling mate at 5:30 this morning, so I set the alarm for 4:55, which seemed an overly reasonable time to get myself up, throw the last things I need into my bag, throw bags into the car, do a last minute check, etc etc.
Well, our sysadmin dude in Edmonton has put in his notice, so I’m being sent out there, again, to get as much of a brain dump as possible from him before his last day on Thursday. Based on what he’s done and doing, I think we’ll need to actually extract his brain and keep it
Heading For Edmonton Again Read Post »
Well, that didn’t take long. Facebook had their IPO (or equivalent), opened up their API to other developers, allowing them to make annoying little “applications” that let my friends spam my Facebook page with requests for zombies, tic-tac-toe, gaming, jedi knight battles, and other random stuff which I deny (nothing against those who sent it
And Now the Facebook Spam Starts Read Post »
Similar to the Ubuntu upgrade that wasn’t, the MovableType 4.0 upgrade didn’t go all that well. The install itself, was amazingly easy… two clicks total, outside of copying the new files to the server (and backups of course). The new interface is…. different, but has some really cool features that someone like me can see
The MovableType 4.0 Upgrade that Wasn’t Read Post »
Bah, another reboot of my file server, another half day lost to fiddling around to get it all back up and working again. I love Linux, but some of the problems I find here and there just piss me right off because there not the ones you’d have in a Microsoft world. Course, they also
Linux Kernel Issues Read Post »
naked proftpd # grep “no such user ‘Administrator'” proftpd.system.log | wc -l 155526 I sooooo hate spambot infested Windows piece of crap machines ran by incompetent operators, and I hate spambot infested linux piece of crap machines ran by incompetent operators. For those of you who don’t read geek, the above says that 155,526 login
A week or so ago we went out to the Vancouver Aquarium and met up with some friends, and had a nice day wandering around and looking at fishes. Below are some of the results photographically. Clicky-clicky for higher res versions. Snake from the tropical section. More after you click….
A Trip to the Aquarium Read Post »