Okay, time to try this again and not sound pissed off, cause I just spend the past 10 minutes typing this thing up and managed to hit "Ctrl+R" - destroying my work....

Okay, so last week I had gotten fed up with Debian's lack of speed with regards to packages and lack of good support and stability with the testing distribution, so I decided that it ( Read more... )

As most people know by now, Steve Irwin passed away recently. There has been a lot of press regarding this incident, and with due right. Steve Irwin was one of the most successful people to be able to be plastered all over the TV and become a world icon with respect to animal rights and educating people about animals (and of course, the all too ( Read more... )

Okay, I feel silly for writing this post, but as many of you know, this blog is not only for other's enrichment, but for me document what I find for my own purposes and future uses. It also helps me to remember things I find cool, interesting, highly important, etc.

Well, for those of you who use databases (particularly MySQL) and don't have as ( Read more... )

For those people who love their listservs, or like to talk to peeps a lot, sometimes it's just better to have threading enabled for their E-Mail client. One such email client that uses threading beautifully is Mozilla Thunderbird. Collapsable, mark all readable, etc. threads really makes my day (or at least reading email) go much smoother.

Alas, ( Read more... )

I saw Crank on Saturday with a bunch of my buddies from the Helpdesk. I hope to keep this review short and sweet - as it should cover the basic gist of the movie.

From what I saw of the previews, the movie seemed like it was gonna be nothing but hardcore, adrenaline pumping, fist fighting gun blasting action - a type of movie I haven't seen in a ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday was the dreaded changed day for my Zend PHP certification, and I could put in no more study time for it - I had already spent several days taking training courses, then several days reviewing the materials taught there, followed by Wednesday and Thursday (practically all-day), so anymore would have done nothing but possibly confuse ( Read more... )

Our apartment complex has been undergoing rennovations recently. I'm thankful that they are upgrading the look, as it has been needed, but there is a slight problem that I do have with it. My schedule as of late has included me going to bed at around 2-3 in the morning and waking up at 11 or noon in the morning.

But, Melissa and I were ( Read more... )

Officially, American Airlines are a bunch of chumps. Why, you ask? Well, I have full intents to tell you, obviously.

My first flight out from Portland was at 6:45 AM, but wasn't on American, but actually on Alaskan Airlines. They were actually quite a pleasing airline. The flight was empty, for the most part, and I couldn't convince them to give me ( Read more... )

Day 3 ended the tutorials and began the sessions - the events that the majority of people showed up for. Keystones also precluded the days events, and the first Keynotes were rather intriguing. I heard talks from one of the leads and founders of SixApart, the company responsible for such things as LiveJournal, etc. In addition, Mr. O'Reilly gave a ( Read more... )

Day 2 of OSCON training was rather sluggish and disappointing. There were several things that I found out that I already knew, but many things I wasn't expecting from one of the talks, the High Performance PHP. Going into this, I was expecting to see some code examples and talks about certain functions or stylistic coding techniques that would ( Read more... )