:(

~david

One of my favorite authors passed away recently. I’ve been so consumed by work that I had not even realized it. He was a great author and I absolutely loved his books.

1. Andromeda Strain
2. Jurrasic Park

Two of my favorite all time books. I will have to check out his other stuff now that he has passed away.

~david

Edit:
So, talking to a friend, I’ve realized that I missed one year when doing my calculations, my site has been in operation for 6 years. :-)

Original Post:

Wow. I was doing some maintenance on my site (see previous story) and noticed that my first entry was in Oct 13 of 2003. Yes, six years ago! I really can’t believe I’ve kept up with it this long. So, here’s to another 5 years. By the way, this was my very first posting.

13 Oct

So things are starting pretty slow, expect very little until my life slows down some, or I miraculously discover that I can slow down time, or travel back in time…

Perhaps you will be waiting for a while in order for this site to be any where near completion.

-dm

Five years later and life has not slowed down and I have not figured out how to travel back in time. :(

~david

I can’t believe it’s been close to a month since I last posted anything on my website. My new project is really kicking my butt, but I’m learning a ton and it will be a multi-million dollar solutions once everything is said and done. Regardless, it is not all work and no fun in Columbus, OH. This past week, Death Cab for Cutie, strolled into town and rocked hard. This was by far better than the DFW show I had seen a few months ago. The sound was so much better and the venue was so much cozier. A great show.

~david

We had a great view, but my camera didn’t do any justice to the band.

Death Cab for Cutie

So, I moved a few things around and updated this theme a bit. So far so good. I’ll leave you with a picture from my trip to Cancun.

The Beautiful Beaches of Cancun

~david

So, by default the good folks at 1and1 give you support for php 3-5, however 4 is the default. So, recently one of the plugins I use in my site upgraded to php 5 which forced me to continue using an older version. However, since I’m always a big sponsor of upgrade to the latest and greatest especially when it comes to software, I decided it was time to make the move. Doing a little bit of google work, I ran into 1and1’s official FAQ on how to do this, which is found here. However, that was not the first link which showed up in google. This guy had a pretty good write up and discussion about this change and 1and1 in general. Thanks to that .htaccess change I’m now humming along with php 5.

cheers,

david

08/11/2008 edit: Funny, a day after I posted this PHP 4 support ended with the last release of the 4.4 branch. Perfect timing!

So, for the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed a small community dedicated to Cisco’s UCCE. For the most part most communities relate to Cisco’s routing, switching, and security while the Unified Communication front is not very well represented.

So, I’ll try and get something started. I’ll try to post at least two features, issues, bugs, tricks I run into while working with this great piece of technology.

~david

So, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I have two hands. The bad news is that one of those hands is attached to a broken wrist. Per my ER release form:

Fracture of Distal End of Radius and Ulna

Yes, two broken bones… 28 years of playing soccer and this is my first major injury. I still consider myself lucky.

The pain is crazy and the Vicodin does nothing for the pain. Oh well, the things I hate the most so far are:

My productivity at work will go down… will need to learn to type with my right hand and nose.
Putting on deodorant with one hand is tricky.
No more soccer.
No more volleyball.
No more flag football.
No more training for my marathon.

Hope these 2-3 months of healing go by fast and that I don’t need any surgery.

david

So, I had been running the same WP theme for a few months and not until yesterday did I decide to visit my own website using IE… what a monstrosity. The right column showed up at the very end of the page and a few things just looked out of order. Basically, it seems to be related to a way that IE handles some CSS, as opposed to Firefox and Opera. Needless to say, I’ve picked up a new theme called Barthelme and I’m really digging it. I might need to tinker with it a bit, but overall my site looks a lot better than it did before.

On a totally unrelated note, work has been kicking my butt. While I am one to usually turn the other cheek, I’m kicking butt at work too. It’s a vicious cycle of violence. :-)

~david

I’ve updated to the latest version of WP. Very painless. Enjoy.

~david