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  • WordPress Update

    After seeing a scary WordPress update warning on mashable.com, I was guilted into doing a little maintenance work on the old blog.   I was half way through the normal WordPress update procedure that I know and don’t really look forward to… backup the database, back up the site’s files, download the new release, unzip and…

  • Brightroom Pics from the Boilermaker

    I was so fast this year, they were only able to catch me at the finish line.  Well, that’s what I’d like to think.  In real life, folding my bib number down so just the actual number shows probably makes it hard to read for the far too dedicated folks who manually tag all the…

  • Boilermaker 2009

    I think a shirt that I saw during the race pretty much sums it up: “My sport is punishment in your sport…” Yeah, that feels about right. Splits: Mile 1: 6:54 Mile 2: 7:36 Mile 3: 7:15 Mile 4: 7:40 Mile 5: 6:41 Mile 6: 7:08 Mile 7: 7:43 Mile 8: 7:12 Mile 9: 7:25…

  • Take Two on the Tweet

    Expected that last post to put in a Tweet.  Turns out I didn’t have the auto create tweet from post option turned on.  Option toggled and hopeful it’ll work this time.

  • Twitter Integration

    A little tech task I’ve been meaning to get to forever was adding my Tweets to the sidebar.  I was gonna cook up something myself, but stumbled across Twitter Tools.  It was a simple unzip, copy, activate, set some options type of affair.  As a bonus, it also files a tweet when I publish here; …

  • Record Breaking Weekend

    Two races, in two days, and two new personal records.  Normally, I wouldn’t scheduled 2 races on 1 weekend, but I already booked the Hall of Fame Half Marathon in Utica when Sandy said that we should do the Komen Race For the Cure 5k.  I’d contemplated doing both in the same weekend previously, but…

  • Sprint Shocker

    Was unhappy when I opened my Sprint bill this month it was about $35 to high.  Didn’t take long to figure out that the overage was on my line.  Hmm, why I am being charged for Casual Data Usage?  Last I knew, I had all you can eat data via the Power Vision feature.  Hmm,…

  • Goat ’09 Pix

    Here are some fun action shots from the folks over at Brightroom.  If you only look quickly, you might even mistake me for being a real runner.  Kinda pricey for prints, but I may finally break down and buy one.  It was a PR, after all.

  • Goat ’09? Rocked It!

    For the first race in a long time, I feel that my training investment really showed some dividends.  In addition to keeping fairly active over the winter (mostly running and weights at the Planet Fitness down the street) and a somewhat unprecedented 6 full course trainging runs (including some in hellaciously crappy weather), I was…

  • Linux Hardware Support? Much improved!

    I bought my brother an hp printer/copier/fax for xmas (from newegg.com for $39, shipped; stupid Shell Shocker deals.)  Between the time I bought the unit and when he got around to unboxing, I also cut his machine over from windows XP (which was beyond hosed with spyware) to Ubuntu.  For my brother’s general web browsing…