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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:03:12 GMT

12:38 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 13 hours ago playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #
15:11 Finally got my MacBook connected up here at UVM. Only an hour an a half left in the day! #
16:19 Setup the firewall on my MacBook, seemed relatively simple! :) #
20:06 Home, dinner eaten, and now it's definitely time to relax, good but long day at work. #
20:48 Got an Evernote account, who knows if I'll ever really use it. Also got the app installed on my iPhone. #

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:03:13 GMT

07:47 Heading up to UVM for my first day, I think it should go rather well. #
23:42 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 27 minutes ago playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:13:02 GMT

09:16 Up and ready to get working :) #
11:26 Updating World of Warcraft server with some help...need to install a few extra packages first. #
13:41 Very busy today, heading to the barn to work now. Hoping I can get a ride in to! #

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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:14:08 GMT

08:29 Up earlier then I want to be, it kind of sucks. #
08:58 Watching this relatively odd animal show on Animal Planet... #
17:15 Finally added the last bits of code to the new Scribbld.net - get yourself an account and check it out! #
22:22 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Online. Playing Call of Duty 4. At the main menu. (via Xbox Live Nation) #
00:03 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 1 hour ago playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Weekend Over!

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:29:16 GMT

Well starting with Friday, I got a bunch of work done in the AM. I actually had a fair amount, more then I thought I would have. I did a lot of preparation for the server work we did this weekend. Obviously I didn't get everything covered because we did hit a few snags while upgrading the servers. So after I got my work done I got all my gear packed up and headed to where the servers are kept. I worked on more prep work while there and then emilie came. She bought some stuff I forgot which was good.

Around 1pm the guy from GMA came out and checked over our lines and everything. We ended up splitting the voice and data wires and then we ran a cable directly from the data lines and pretty much right into the modem. Definitely noticed a BIG improvement and now I've noticed 0 disconnections since yesterday which is awesome. So now Scribbld should be up and running at 100%!

I don't think anything spectacular happened on Friday night. I attempted to get to bed early so that I could wake up early and start working at 8am like I mentioned.

.... interruption....

I just sent this photo to Keith, he should obviously get this instead of iPhone --

.... ok back to your regularly scheduled program ....

So I woke up a bit later then I had wanted to on Saturday, but by 8:20am we were working on the server. The first snag we hit was that one of the web servers wouldn't connect to the Internet. it's NIC module wasn't be loaded. Fortunately after some poking around and chatting on #Gentoo I got it working and made sure it loaded up on boot too.

The next snag we hit was the server to be Scribbld 1 ran some rather new hardware so it had trouble finding the hard drive. After bother #Debian I remembered the last time we installed Linux on it we had to use this special custom build which included drivers for all this new stuff. So after getting a bootable USB key we got the base system installed.

The last major snag we hit was we forgot to snag the Last.fm code from the development box so that feature was "disabled" until we could get to it today.

morgan and I worked until 10pm or so last night. We pretty much finished up all the big things and had about 8-10 smaller things left to do today. We did 2-3 of them today, the rest we'll complete over the course of the next 2 weeks. I don't expect it to take that long though.

emilie and I went to the barn this afternoon, played with the kitties, Bethany did really well in her A circuit show this past week. We almost brought another kitty home, we'll see. When I got home I added the Last.fm code and made sure it worked and it did. I'm just working on another Gentoo install for a private WoW server. I am hoping I can bring the databases over from the old percheron install, but you never know.

Alright, I think it's time to go relax and no more computer!

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Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:06:59 GMT

22:51 Finally after 15 hours, the network transition is 95% complete, just need to add some Last.fm code and get Postfix installed. #

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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:06:54 GMT

11:01 Finally have a second to sit down, been working on Numbers, consulting calls, setting up appointments, emails and the likes this morning. #
12:10 At my parents house waiting for the ISP people to come and fix shit. Maybe they can install a phone line right into the server room. #

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Internetz Fixed?

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:52:48 GMT

First I must apologize for not leaving comments as of late. I've been really busy consulting, working my horse, working at the barn, getting paper work done for my new job at the University and in-between spending some time with emilie. I've also been working hard at making sure we get a much more reliable connection between our ISP and our servers.

A guy from our ISP actually came out today and had a look at it all, I had him drill a direct line from our telephone box right into the server room. So now the modem has a direct connection to the phone box and it should be much better. Things seem to be fixed.

Tomorrow we'll be working on upgrading our entire systems setup. I've started a couple things right now, but the majority of it will get done tomorrow. We'll be starting at 8am and I hope to have everything back up and running by the late afternoon tomorrow if not sooner. It's definitely going to be pretty hectic but we'll get it all done.

I think I'll be getting to bed relatively early tonight, got to be up early tomorrow. I am hoping if it's nice in the evening, I'll be able to go out riding, but who knows. Have a nice weekend everyone, I'll attempt to get some commenting done!

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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:12:12 GMT

00:23 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Online. Playing Xbox 360 Dashboard (via Xbox Live Nation) #
03:20 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 1 hour ago playing Xbox 360 Dashboard (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:12:21 GMT

08:57 Email, blogs, and comments and blah blah, need to find some RAM too. #
11:46 The GPS on the new phone is pretty badass, seems to work even when you have no cell service which is awesome. #
16:27 Back from the barn and consulting, just finished cleaning some dishes and working on some other consulting thing, heading to Shaw's with Em. #

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Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:11:39 GMT

06:56 Up too early, I just want to go back to bed! #
07:19 Not really sure about the power brick that comes with the 3G iPhone...kind ugly haha. And no dock? Lame. #
09:39 Fixed my Linksys WRT54GS v.4. Yay...figured out that it can do the same thing that the $150 router GMA had me buy...argh! #
11:30 Consulting in Bristol, I hope this goes quicker! #

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Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:11:03 GMT

08:51 Going to Boston today with @clev!! #
12:26 Waiting for the T to come, we're at the Malden T stop now. #
12:55 Waiting for the E line to come and get us! #
15:00 Waiting at the Apple store, @clev's inyerview is taking longer than last time! #
21:02 Home from Boston, watching some TV with Emilie and relaxing, consulting in the AM! #

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Boston - Part II

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:04:40 GMT

This weekend went by waaaay to fast! On Saturday Emilie and I went riding. Definitely had an awesome time, really got a good ride in. Around 10pm or so the main database server locked up and everything went down. Totally suckass, so I had to drive like 20 minutes to where the servers are located and had to manually reboot it to find out the boot system RAID set had become degraded. No idea how it happened, but the rebuild only took 2 hours which wasn't too bad. The last time that happened to me, it happened on a 500GB set and took like 12 hours to rebuild lol. I do apologize about that! emilie actually came with me to keep me company, we finally got home around 12am haha

Sunday, not much happened, I've been playing as much Star Fox Adventures as I can, pretty fun game. I am ~20% done...worked at the barn and then went to my parents for dinner. Had an awesome dinner...I got a bunch of new movies and some new anime too (picked it up off the server while there).

Today I went back down to Boston with Keith. He had a second interview with Apple, he said it went very well, so that's awesome. We hit up Fire & Ice and the way back. Had some amazing food as usual. I highly recommend anyone who lives in Boston or visiting Boston to go there, you will love it! Really good price too, a lot better then I thought it was going to be.

I snagged an iPhone 3G, and it's quite nice. emilie got my old 8GB iPhone.

Tomorrow I've got consulting down south, so that'll be nice, of course I doubt it'll be nice weather, oh well. I think I might go riding tomorrow too. I got paid from the appointment at Yellow Steel in NH, yay!

I believe that's all the news I've got for right now! :) OH, Emilie and I saw Ex Machina, AWESOME!!!

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:09:24 GMT

10:39 Just going over servers to make sure they're okay...had a good breakfast, just relaxing today, maybe some GCN in a bit. #
16:37 Hanging out at my parents for dinner, attempted to fix the Internet, also looked at the xc course at the Olympics, it's nuts! #

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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:05:51 GMT

10:10 Watching the Equestrian Olympics. #
00:18 Finished dealing with some database server issues, and finally adding postfix to startup... #

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Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:08:49 GMT

07:08 Up a bit earlier then I wanted to be on my day off, but that's okay, I can get some work done :) #
08:02 Dishes done, trash out and kitty poo box cleaned, off to a good start this morning! :) #
12:37 Pretty much done updating the dev server, also took some consulting calls, and now I think I am going to head to Canus. #
15:19 Just finished Hancock, it was okay. Not terrible, nothing amazing though. #
18:32 Attempting to fix the connection issues between myself and my ISP...could be their end :) #

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Coding, Coding, and More Coding

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:36:11 GMT

I've been pretty busy with getting another job, consulting and attempting to upgrade Scribbld's code base. morgan and I have been working for the last 2 days on getting the code up to date. We're running it all on a development server which is really nice. I can get a lot of work done there without having to worry about screwing up the live site, always a plus! Basically the major new feature is the ability to have the Music field on the Update page auto-populate with your latest track on Last.fm (should have an account there). Definitely cool!

Besides updating the development code, we've also turned the chat server back on and now instead of having to type in your username that will automatically work (should you be logged in). Since the Chat link only shows up when you're logged in, it should work 98% of the time. The other 2% is people might have the link bookmarked and so when they hit it and they're NOT logged in, it'll give them a nickname like Anon4829 or something.

I've also emailed my ISP about the recent connection dropping between them and the servers, and other equipment. Hopefully they can help me figure out if it's their end or my end. Hopefully it's theirs haha.

On Wednesday I went riding. It was really nice even though we mostly walked around the ring, we did trot a bit, but I was just so beat after working that I just wanted to take it easy. It was a lot of fun though, sure relieves a lot of stress and gives you some time to clear your head. That's what I enjoy most about horses and riding, it's a good time to just focus on that and nothing else, plus you can talk to your horse about anything and nothing have to worry about it!

As for getting another job, that's pretty much 100% finalized which is great, one less thing to worry about. I'll be working at the University of Vermont as a mini (and by mini, I mean just me) IT department for the Center for Disability or something. It'll be fun. Pay is decent, obviously nothing close to consulting, but it'll do just fine.

Anyways, I hope that either this weekend or next (probably next) we can get the Scribbld live site updated to the new code. I think I am going to give Scribbld the quad-core box and one of the dual-core will be a full time development server. So that's the plan as of right now.

I played some Star Fox Adventures last night, it's getting to be a lot more fun now that I've found a guide on GameFAQs. I just hate messing around in a game, trying to figure out what to do, I just don't have time for that. I gotta get going on Final Fantasy III too.

So that's about it for now, I thought about going riding today and I might, I think I am going to relax my poor head hurts, I've not done this much coding in a long time, not fun, code sucks!! Maybe I'll watch Hancock.

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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:15:25 GMT

08:20 Emailing some clients, and booting up the dev server so I can get the latest LJ code and update Scribbld with it. #

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:07:56 GMT

14:39 Back from consulting & working at the barn, I actually got to go riding today, it was awesome. #
18:44 Got a bit more done in iTunes, finished adding 99% of the movies to Delicious Library, books and video games are next. #
20:53 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 1 hour ago playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:09:55 GMT

08:39 Appointment for today cancelled, will probably get a bunch of things done around the house anyways, have no gas too! #
18:24 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 07/30/08 playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #
00:38 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 1 hour ago playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:08:18 GMT

09:36 Just finishing up consulting calls, emails, journals, and reading my feeds...maybe time for breakfast now! #
18:38 Is home and relaxing now, had a pretty good day. #
00:03 Going to sleep now, I've got a consulting appointment in the AM tommorrow. #
01:30 Xbox Live: vtequine is currently Offline. Last seen 07/30/08 playing Call of Duty 4 (via Xbox Live Nation) #

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Quick One

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:02:06 GMT

This might be a relatively quick post. I'm pretty busy and I'm trying to spend some time with emilie since I didn't get to really last night.

On Saturday I went up to Milton with David and played some airsoft. It was relatively lame because the area was large and there was maybe 10 people. I guess it was okay, it was something to do at least. On Sunday Emilie and I just hung out, went to the barn and had fun, then went to my parents for dinner which was nice.

Today, I had another appointment in Burlington for something which I shall leave un-named for the moment. It actually went well though. After that I had consulting appointment and that too went really well. I got some really yummy banana bread out of it :)

Last night I pretty much spent like 4 hours getting Unrealircd and Anope working. Obviously morgan helped and we pretty much finished it up. There's a little bit left of configuration to do. We tried to get an Eggdrop bot to work, but we might have to have someone else do that for us, as we're pretty much clueless on how it works. For the moment, I am completely satisfied with how it works. I just wanted a basic chatroom where I have some bit of control. That way if people are being dumb I can just kick or ban them. Definitely join up though, I am thinking about putting a big chat button somewhere haha

Tonight, just relaxing, Emilie is making her amazingly delicious calzones, so I can't wait for that. We're watching Star Wars: Episode I right now, I would love to take a cold shower at some point too.

Anyways, I hope everyone has a lovely day and a lovely week, I do hope I have time to post again shortly :)

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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:11:47 GMT

11:02 Ordering a new Leapers scope for my rifle...my other one got pwned during yesterdays game. #
14:19 Worked at the barn, hanging out at my parents with Emilie now. #

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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:09:52 GMT

11:47 Finally got the right battery for my scope, illuminated crosshairs are awesome! #
20:22 Back from airsoft with David, had and awesome time, just crashing in front of the TV for the night with Emilie! #

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Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:14:56 GMT

07:14 Up early, don't know if I'll go back to sleep. #
07:37 Heading out for a morning bike ride. #
09:10 I absolutely HATE the new Google Maps print interface...uugh, there's got to be a way to get back to the old version. #
15:53 Just back form the barn, poor horses tail was horrendous from the burrs! Made him all pretty now though. #
17:17 Watched some Doug, charging up some batteries for tomorrow. #

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