j-dawg.org http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/ v.3.0 - now with even more caffeine en Copyright 2009 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:26:21 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss travelbugs... Kelly and I went geocaching in Huntsville and picked up a star trek travel bug. as fate would have it the TB was actually damaged so we are gonna mail it back to it's owner so he can fix it :)

we are gonna drop these off in a new cache this weekend too!

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/07/tavelbugs.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/07/tavelbugs.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:26:21 -0600 geocaching... well, my gps arrived so i tried to go this evening to a local cache...but as fate would have it there was 6 high school kids (emo ftw) who were all but sitting right on top of where I needed to start my search ... so i had to pass on it for today as it would not be cool for them to muggle it ... and i had a sneaking suspicion that they would ...

i headed to another cache locally but the notes asked not to search after dark and it was starting to get late so i looked around for a few minutes and then headed out

so far the caches have beaten me, but not for long ...

what is geocaching (or geocaching )you ask? well, it's basically a game you play with your gps to find stuff that people have hidden ... i know i am years late getting into it, but better late than never...

now for the tech section...what gps did i get you ask? well, i got a refurbished GPSMAP 60CSx which is pretty awesome and has a section for geocaching, so hopefully with a little more practice i will start finding them

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/geocaching.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/geocaching.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:41:26 -0600 sick ... i am sick with some sort of strep like thing ... it sucks a lot

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/sick.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/sick.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:44:39 -0600 dpf 2... well, just a quick update ... i have taken the laptop apart (mostly) and am now at the phase where i get a shadow box ... but the code is in place to run the frame so progress is being made ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/dpf_2.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/dpf_2.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:41 -0600 stress tests... i am just finishing up some web server stress tests ... the findings are not at all what i thought they would be ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/stress_tests.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/stress_tests.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:30:30 -0600 dpf... i have decided that instead of buying a digital picture frame that i will make one out of my old old ibm thinkpad and linux ... if only there wasn't that one dead pixel ... it'll be good practice at any rate in case i decide to try another one with a slightly larger display ...

more to come ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/dpf.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/dpf.html Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:27:10 -0600 bug hell ... so i spent most of my day tracking down the cause of a bug in some code (well, in the many thousands of lines of code) that i wrote ...

the good news is i am pretty damned sure i got it taken care of this time ... the bad news is it took me most of the workday to get it done as i had other things i had planned on having implemented by now.

however, launching a new site always means putting out little fires all over the place ... now hopefully this fire will not come up again ... but we shall see

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/bug_hell.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/bug_hell.html Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:51:35 -0600 racingdirect.com ... well, today we had a relaunch of racingdirect.com as we revamped some things to bring it up to a level for being green lighted.

I worked on a backend way of handling shipping with GoogleCheckout since they do things in a different kind of way ...

Anyway, www.racingdirect.com is now in operation so if you are in the market for some Racing Gear feel free to check it out ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/racingdirectcom.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/racingdirectcom.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:42:59 -0600 i feel stimulated ... well, the check arrived ... and not a moment to soon as my car just went to the shop. something tells me that $600 is headed directly to my mechanic now.

oh well, at least i have a $600 head start now ... cause after all, it's just money

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/i_feel_stimulated.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/i_feel_stimulated.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:40:26 -0600 car towed ... well, i got the car towed to eurotech today ... happily the car was just high enough from the ground to not scrape but it sure was close ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/car_towed.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/06/car_towed.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:33:14 -0600 baywatch ... so i saw my first episode ever of baywatch today ... it is funny just how campy it is, haha

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/baywatch.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/baywatch.html Sat, 31 May 2008 16:43:28 -0600 what a day ... work went well ... i got several issues sorted out that needed to be sorted out.

i went to dinner with daniel, sarah, and brandon ... but then afterward everything went downhill. on the drive back to drop off brandon before heading out to see my girlfriend kelly my car decided to shred the serpentine belt which makes it impossible to go see kelly ... and that makes me super sad :(

below is a picture of part of the shredded belt that blake was able to get untangled from the cars fan ... sadly it looks like i am going to have to tow the car to the shop and have them fix it monday which means i won't see kelly at all this weekend and that makes me super duper sad :( :(

also, i saw a really bad wreck where someone ran into a traffic light post and actually knocked the lights down. it was weird seeing traffic lights laying on the road ... i hope the drive is ok ... this day makes me sad :(

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/what_a_day.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/what_a_day.html Sat, 31 May 2008 00:47:11 -0600 just fyi ... i assume at some point in the near future i may convert the theme/style of the blog over to the main style of the entire website so just be on the lookout for that ... although it'll probably happen slowly over the course of months :P

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/just_fyi.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/just_fyi.html Fri, 30 May 2008 01:24:19 -0600 posting from gnome ... I figured if i added the gnome-blog applet to my panel I would be far more likely to remember to blog on a fairly regular basis ...

]]> http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/posting_from_gnome.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/posting_from_gnome.html Fri, 30 May 2008 01:02:44 -0600 Testing the new server ... Just testing the new VPS ... http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/testing_the_new_server_1.html http://www.j-dawg.org/moveabletype/2008/05/testing_the_new_server_1.html VPS Thu, 29 May 2008 01:57:16 -0600