Last week has been tough on the whole family. We’ve been to the ER twice, and straight to the doctor’s office once. Last Sunday night I managed to drop the hot tub cover on my foot. I managed to limp through the whole day Monday, but by Tuesday morning I was in extreme pain. At …
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Windows 7 mini-review
Credit where credit is due, Microsoft’s upcoming release of Windows 7 may just be the best operating system Microsoft has ever released. In using it lightly, I can say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Microsoft’s latest effort. So far I’ve mostly spent my time in operating system set up and maintenance operations, but Windows …
101 things in 1001 days, revisited
So September 28, 2009, my experiment in completing 101 things in 1001 days ended. By my own tally I only completed 43 of my objectives. At one level this is an abject failure; on the other hand, a large number of life changes may make this a reasonable outcome. In the past three years, I’ve …
Work in progress
I’m way behind on blogging. So the next little bit I expect to be doing a lot of posting, as I try to catch up. Hopefully, what will follow is a rash of posts.
Bengies drive-in
I’m considering heading up to Baltimore to visit Bengies Drive-In this weekend. Here’s the expected lineup: Fri and Sat: 7:15pmSun: 6:45pm Fri and Sat: 8:45pmSun: 8:15pm Fri and Sat: 10:30pmonly
Free Trail-a-bike
General cleaning and organization has led to a few surplus items. We’re generally taking them to goodwill/local charities, but if something seems like it might be useful to friends, I’ll list it here. The first item up for grabs is a Trek Trail-A-Bike; this let’s budding cyclists hitch a ride behind a parent. Our looks …
Wedding Update
Or announcement, or something. What we know at the moment: Kim and I are getting married at the Memorial Chapel on the UMCP campus on 10/10/10. For the numerically geeky out there, in binary that’s 1010/1010/1010. Or if you take it as a binary number: 101010 = 42 in decimal. And I don’t need to …
France 2009 photos
I finally got around to posting the photos from our trip to France on my Flickr photo stream. I didn’t bother editing the photos at all, otherwise I’d be posting them to the photo blog. Let me know which photos you like, and I’ll edit them for the photoblog. You can see them here. There …
Mini-Bar
On Friday night, Kim and I had the great pleasure of eating at the Mini-Bar by José Andrés. A six-seat dining experience nestled within Café Atlantico, Kim had to work a bit to get reservations (call one month in advance @10 am). We were rewarded for our efforts by a 28-course tasting menu of “molecular …
Keeping SSH sessions alive
Since I just had to re-remember how to do this, I thought I’d post a quick note. To keep SSH sessions alive you just need to create a file: .ssh/config. In this config file you can just add: Host * ServerAliveInterval=60 KeepAlive=yes This works on the relatively recent (last 3-5 years) versions of OpenSSH that …