I happened to be working with some timestamps today and noticed that we’re starting to get into territory like 1234094400. So, being the geek that I am, I wondered when we’d finally hit 1234567890. The answer is 2009-02-13T18:31:30-05:00, which happens to be 18:31:30 …

Updated 2009-03-05, see bottom.

At work the other week, we decommissioned 24 old desktops - Dell GX280’s that were used in the student labs as print release stations. They didn’t have anything sensitive on them, just Windows XP, but with licensing and all we have to wipe Windows off …

As mentioned in my Custom Truck Console post, since my truck was stolen and now recovered (with all of the emergency equipment stripped out - weird) I’ve got to start from scratch. Since I finished the console, I’ve started work on redoing the lighting. The first grueling step was …

Updated December 26, 2021: This seems rather unbelievable almost thirteen years to the day after I started construction of this console… but I was just cleaning out a box of old paperwork of mine in my parents’ garage, and found the original dimensioned drawing for this project. I’ve updated …

Found this from a month and a half ago, waiting as a draft:

So, I mostly finished the WordPress installation. I got everything for WordPress up and running, tested my Blogger URL redirection script and then switched over my subdomain redirection.

The blogger redirection takes two parts, but is in …

Many times, I’ve wished that I paid the $20 to get software for my Treo 700p to record phone calls. About a month or two ago, I had some issues with my phone and had to call Verizon Wireless. The poor woman was trying to open a ticket for …

Well, I finally bit the bullet. I woke up this morning, got in to work (slow day) and said to myself, “My blog’s finally moving to WordPress. Today.” So, I read through the docs (really psyched about the Blogger import feature), downloaded 2.7 (latest), setup the DB and …

Why is it that Rutgers cancels classes hours before a football game, and surely would if there were classes during Super Bowl times… but both of my classes were scheduled to meet on election night???

It seems like it’s taken forever. I don’t know how many times I’ve struggled with web apps that I wrote for the ambulance corps to try and get printed output correct. I’ve done everything from generating PDFs, doing screen captures of a browser and printing as …

Update / Notice: This post was written in 2008. The world has changed since then. A lot. We have good, easy configuration management like Puppet, Chef, etc. (which, in fact, I use to manage my desktop and laptop) and, more importantly, creating and destroying servers can be done in seconds rather …