Sorry this is such short notice, but for those of you who live in the 46th House of Delegates District (Skyline area of Fairfax County, and Western City of Alexandria), you have a special election tomorrow, January 13th, to replace Delegate Brian Moran who is running for Governor. Your ballot will be: Charniele Herring (D) […]
Tagged elections, Local, Politics, VirginiaTunePost keeps improving their beta, now it correctly identifies your older version of flash and prompts a FlashPlayer 10 install to get it to work. So if you had trouble with the stuff I posted a couple days ago, download FlashPlayer 10 and try again. The following playlist is guitar music: flamenco, classical, spanish, and […]
Tagged TunePostJust messing around with the early public beta from TunePost. This might not work for everyone, but you should get music when you hit the play button in the embedded code window below… For those who prefer Rock, and a whole playlist rather than just one targeted song:
We’ve been virtualizing our systems where I work for months now. OpenSuSE 11 with Xen virtualization and many OpenSuSE virtual servers on each physical server. Today that paid off big time, when I needed to clear one of the physical servers off, I was able to simply shutdown the virtual servers on that host, copy […]
The new GParted LiveCD (v0.4.1-2) allows booting into a RAM disk so you can eject the CD and shred other servers with it while the first server is still doing long-running shred commands. Very cool! For those who don’t know about it, GParted is a GPL (free and open source) software suite that allows re-partitioning […]
My New Year’s Eve started with me day cleaning my home office thoroughly, a multi-day job I am only getting started on; I want to reorganize and deep clean everything and re-configure my home work space… I wasted a few hours fighting with horribly written Windows software to update our old Garmin StreetPilot 2620 GPS […]
Tagged ballroom dance, washington dcYuletide Ball has it’s New Year’s Eve Gala ($160/person) tonight; Dan Van Bey may have one more ticket with our group, and the Yuletide folks may have more for general seating. The Gala is one big New Year’s Eve party with lots of ballroom dancing, some decent food and possibly some professional dance shows. It’s […]
The fun never stops at our house, we are cleaning the pantry and finding some… uh… er… rather old gems in the canned/jarred food category. Uh, a lot of stuff is getting disposed of since it is so old. Must develop a new habit of checking the pantry before going shopping or when in the […]
I am not myself in the market for a new television, but went out shopping for a new television with Fyrlocc yesterday to help her sort out the crazy marketing doublespeak from the pertinent and useful facts. I was pleasantly surprised by the dropping prices, generally better pictures on nearly all displays, and useful features. […]
