2017 posts

I spent numerous hours looking into what appear now to be separate gzipping issu…

Was going to wash dishes and clean the kitchen tonight from Christmas operations…

Merry Christmas. Glad to get a white one. I think it's been quite a while since…

Christmas is fast approaching and, as usual, I haven't gotten presents yet. I o…

Erm, looks like Windows downloaded something like 1.5GB of updates automatically…

I found myself wanting to check if a given URL path exists on another host of a…

Woof. Finally made my decision on which plan to go with through healthcare.gov…

First real snow of the year. First snowy commute to my new home. Took 50 minute…

Today was not a great day at work: I discovered that my work laptop was stolen…

I was getting a white screen with 200 status in production after updating Symfon…

Today, I was rubbing my eyes due to itchy allergies, when I saw what looked like…

Had my clothes washer problem again. Stopped in the wash phase and just sat the…

I beat Rescue Rangers (the NES game) with my brother. Not sure if I had before,…

Happy Thanksgiving.

Feels nice to have four days off in a row. It's rare, and needed.

I skipped lunch today, then celebrated by eating at Cilantro, a thai place downt…

Well, Firefox forced my hand by upgrading even though I had "Never check fo…

The recent release of Firefox 57 is pretty nice in many ways, but the loss of c…

I have been using rsync for backup and other things for a long time. It has a …

I've been unhappy with the inheritance provided by PHP ORM's I've looked at. I…

Not sure if it was a recent Mac security update or a change with macports, but m…

I voted for the first time at my new address. It was slightly confusing to find…

Blah. It now gets dark before I get off work. Thanks daylight savings time, or…

I helped my dad install a water heater and washtub faucet today. Relatively eas…

While working on my site's error pages, I became aware of the #save418 kerfuffle…

Got my washer working not long after my post about it stopping working. With th…

Each state would be close to sovereign, with general freedom to create and enfo…

I beat Secret of Evermore most likely for the first time. I know I had gotten n…

I had feared it, but I've now verified: Water is leaking through my bathtub wal…

Went to the Indians game. Turned out to be the final of the year. Disappointed…

My clothes washer has stopped working. No lights, no movement, no water; nothin…

I parked my car across the street from my destination and put some money in the…

Apparently, I had some short_open_tags in some examples on my site, but didn't e…

I hit 5GB of cell data for the first time. That's how much I get per month befo…

Went to the Indian's game Friday to see them win their 16th in a row. They won …

There was some pretty spectacular lightning tonight. Big, across the sky, branc…

Saw The Planets, Dvorák's violin concerto, and a Paganini solo with the Clevela…

Took a long lunch to watch the eclipse today. My mom got me some of those ecli…

Saw Bolero and three other pieces performed by Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday. …

Saturday, I spent some time watching for meteors from the Perseid meteor shower.…

To edit a git commit somewhere before the last one, use rebase with the commit …

Went to the Cleveland Orchestra Tchaikovsky concert with my dad and brother. A …

Can't, for the life of me, get to sleep. Getting pretty low on hours left befor…

In looking for broadband options, I went looking to see what the state of Connec…

Having something requires giving something else up

Though I have things to catch up on after GiveCamp, I spent the evening at an Ak…

Finished GiveCamp on Sunday. We continued working mostly on the site that will…

Today was mostly focused on setting up a clone of the client's site, setting up…

Day 1 of GiveCamp done. Really hot. The air conditioning was out in the airpo…

GiveCamp is almost here again. Taking off a half day tomorrow to pack, prepare,…