Monthly Archives: May 2006

Reorganizing

I’ve tried a lot of different schemes for keeping track of data while I’m on the go. When I was in high school, I always had a notepad on me. When I was 20, I had one of the first palm pilots which I used religiously for years. Now that the volume …

May 23, 2006 – 11:00 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Just get it done

A productive weekend indeed!

Friday night found me lounging. I was sleepy. No going out or doing anything fun.

Saturday morning I headed in for training and a Kusari Fundo seminar. For some reason, I managed to inherit the Big Swede’s neck crick, which was sort of a pain in the ass all weekend …

May 22, 2006 – 9:50 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Weekend Update | Comments (0)

Bad News

Bad news for everyone in the world. The CIA can kidnap you and torture you for 5 months regardless of your citizenship, or where you currently are in the world. And there’s not a goddamned thing you can do about it since our rendition programs are a state secret and therefore not subject …

May 19, 2006 – 3:04 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (1)

A Random Desire

I have no idea where it came from, but today I have the overpowering desire to paint all the wood bits on my desk bright fucking orange with a nice gloss of clear coat.

Anyone know someone who can make this happen for less than $100?

May 15, 2006 – 1:30 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

A Final RAID Solution

After some consternation with Suse 10, I decided to try a different distro for my RAID solution.

At the behest of the Big Swede, I downloaded Ubuntu to give it a shot. Went something like this: No graphical installer, okay no big deal. Hrmm installer won’t recognize 2 drives connected directly to the logic board. …

May 11, 2006 – 11:33 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

The Adventure of Linux RAID

Well, I was planning this great big triumphant post about getting Fluffy up and running again, but then I ran into the suck that is linux/unix on cheap hardware.

The original plan was to install Solaris on my rig and play around with Sun’s neato ZFS. Unfortunately, Solaris had no driver support for either of …

May 8, 2006 – 1:55 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

A Couple of Fun Days

It was a good weekend.

For Cinco De Mayo, Kelli and I hung out with Michael and Lori from the dojo. We got some sushi, then headed back to their place for daquris and penuckle. Good times.

Saturday we hung out with Doug and his spawn and went over some software options for his upcoming …

May 8, 2006 – 9:53 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Personal, Technology, Weekend Update | Comments (1)

My Weird Body

I have long nursed a case of chronic tendentious in my right elbow, which among other things make excises like bench presses really annoying.

This afternoon it’s been acting up badly, like when I reach up to scratch my head, I bend my elbow and it hurts like hell. I was thinking I was going …

May 3, 2006 – 4:27 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Kicking Ass | Comments (0)