Checking out Twitterrific and uses for Twitter at HSRA

lunch at Mickey D’s

more Twitter research

Barbara visiting Jake to discuss the new version of Excellence

Signing up some test victims for HSRA Twitter use

testing WordPress-Twitter plugins

Tweets now available on 7minutemiles.com

searching for boxes to ship a computer to LA

Checking in with Bonnie

catching up on news and email

swimming lessons for kid two at wise

installing iLife 2008 on home office G5

upgrading home office G5 to Leopard

installing Office 2008 on home office G5

updating LA workstations remotely

warm beer, cold women at the Guthrie

Center Ice free preview

cleaning the home office while I wait for the snow and watch the sick kid

researching possibilities for an HSRA 10-year golf tournament

tackling the tax situation this evening

learned how to make custom website icons for my iPhone

helping Tony write a letter to Carl Pohland’s foundation

installing WordPress security updates

setting up the speakerphone in TC’s office for the big call from Senator Coleman

cleaning up the new LA video Quad workstation

capturing screenshots from LA via VPN and ARD

Broiler tweet

creating LA server login cheat sheet

searching for computer hard cases

the Red Wings kicked me in the stomach tonight

HSRA board meeting follow-up

letter to the Sun Country chairman

researching Google Apps for Education email management options

phone call from waynewoodschoolofhope.org

discussing student email options for MN and LA

watching kid one at swim team

installed three software updates on laptop

breakfast with Dee Forsberg-Voss at Keys

finishing breakfast

booking a flight to LA on Sun Country

discovering tabbed chats in iChat 4

preparing for the state of the tech meeting

review and forward eRate consultant invoice to Bonnie

connect Dee and Phil Callen re: email marketing

website idea mock ups in Photoshop

network connection for Taz

wild vs dallas at the X

messing with Photoshop and Dreamweaver

launched a vanity page at davidkingsbury.com

just finished the longest continuous meeting ever at Studio 4

running the girl around town

Set up an HSRA Twitter account

haircuts with Kim

watching Hockey Day Minnesota

updating QuickTime on machines in LA

Poker Night at the Cooks

finalizing the tax forms

drooling over Pebble Beach

Wild at Blues on FSN

watching the Grammys

updating Basecamp for Studio 4

meeting with the ring guy at Cupcake

Phoenix versus Dallas on Versus

Damn you Star Wars Lego

Upgrading to 10.5.2

tech lunch meeting at Lucky’s

researching bar code scanners

organizing Basecamp again

first issue with 10.5.2 – wireless at home was broken (had to switch channels on the base station)

swim team for girl one at Wise

wrote the first draft of a tech survey for HSRA students and staff

Wild versus the Oil on FSN

watching Black Books on the newly upgraded AppleTV

first drafts of staff technology surveys for MN and LA

remote troubleshooting of HSRA MN network access

conference call with Phil Callen in NYC

visiting the Star of the Week at Deerwood Elementary

reviewing the free version of Survey Monkey

ordering batteries and power supplies

sent out the first Survey Monkey survey

ran 3.1 miles in 26:37 on the treadmill

Elgg testing day

system upgrades on Lee and Sasquatch in Seattle

setting up elgg.hsra.org test domain

installing and configuring Elgg on JB

Elgg prototype up and running

reading Elgg documentation

Wild versus Vancouver on 45

Itasca Suites, August 1-2, booked it

Richard Thompson at Papa Charlies Lutsen, March 15, hmm…

Preparing the video machine for travel to LA

lunch with my grandfather at Cecil’s

ordered new SATA enclosures for Terry

fun, fun chores around the house

birthday dinner for the pre-teen at Don Pablos

make that Lucky’s–the Don has closed

2nd period – Wild vs Preds at the X

gate H1 waiting for SY421

landed at LAX

late lunch at Canter’s Deli

setting up new LA video quad

configuring new ID card machine

I hate AlphaCard

dinner with Phil at Hennessey’s

updating LA machines with Office and system updates

Full hard drives, ARD issues and firmware that won’t take. Hurray!

El Pollo Loco

Configuring new graphics and video machines

Dinner at Gina Lee’s Bistro

Dolci Mango

working on U of M Golf Institute updates

goodbye Redondo Beach

waiting at LAX

Arrived MSP

registered click4life.org with GoDaddy for 5 years

swim team with kid one at Wise

unpacking

installing hard drives in enclosures for Terry

setting up a Mac mini test bench

fixing perms on the MN server

swimming lesson for kid two at Wise

dinner at Raising Cane’s with kid two

finishing Weeds

cleaning for the party

updating home office G5

updating new LA graphics iMac

ripping CDs into iTunes

watching Tiger at the Match Play

watching Gophers hockey (vs. Bucky)

heading to the Wild game with low expectations – damn you Iginla!

at least it was Ignila’s fault

I should say it *wasn’t* Ignila’s fault

bring on the little gold dudes already

ran 2.0 miles on the treadmill

setting up temporary click4life.org re-direct page

changing DNS settings for click4life.org

updating blogroll

learning about Drupal

Tapemark Pro-Am meeting at Famous Dave’s

updating machines in LA

admin tasks for Jewel in LA

meeting with Aleesha about the support page

ordering more Final Cut for LA

setting up a hosting account for central88.org

Wild seem broken-hearted

swim team for kid one at Wise

doctor for the pinkeye girl

getting organized (hopefully)

updating umgolf.com

working on the LA Times story

emergency Los Angeles RAID repair

LA Times story now reprinted at losangeles.hsra.org/press

heading to Treasure Island casino with my dad

total donation: about $30

swimming at the Holiday Inn Marshfield

dinner at Crabby Dave’s

watching the girls swim

driving back to Minny

uploading Marshfield photos to 7MM

Swim lessons for kid two at Wise

Go Ducks – Calgary at the Duck Pond on Yahoo!

first day cover photos

no love for Skoula

meeting with Dee and Gerald

registered deeforsberg.com

fixed perms on Cammack Marshall Fund

email marketing with Constant Contact

lunch at Barbette

updating Basecamp

new email list signup at proam.mn

power outage at HSRA LA

Ducks vs Sens on Yahoo!

reading the kid Everest book two

reviewing OpenDNS

lunch at Town Talk Diner

ordered Aperture 2

OpenDNS up and running in my office

Wild versus Hawks at the X with kid one and kid two

shoveling March snow – must be tourney time

filtering ready for testing in LA

OpenDNS tweaks

resolved OpenDNS cache issues

last class A game of the night on 45 Guy’s station

updates to umgolf.com

heading to the X

Edina vs Cloquet at the X

Woodbury losing to BSM 2-0

EDGE is flaky in St. Paul today

visited mom at St. Joe’s – was admitted last night after blood tests came back with high potassium and bad kidney numbers

dropping off hockey tickets for Colleen and Dan

quick updates to proam.mn

hockey overload – Wild on FSN, Roseau/Blaine on 45

dropping off girl scout cookies for Grandpa Smith

quick dinner from Satay 2 Go

oh yeah, iPhone SDK today – watching the video now

at the dermatology office

reviewing Studio 4 d.f traffic patterns

building hard drives

dinner from Rooster’s BBQ

backing up everything everywhere

Wild vs. Atlanta on FSN

cleaned up some LA machines

Roseau and Hill-Murray on 45

lunch at Barbette with kid one

picked up laptop at First Tech

supplies from Apple Store MOA and Target Eagan

repaired PowerBook has no hard drive?!?

threw out my back moving the new fire safe

Edina vs Hill-Murray at the X with kid one

Wild vs Sharks at the X with one – expectations are low…

breaking down a PowerBook to install a new hard drive

cleaning out the parts drawer looking for a hard drive cable

ordered replacement hard drive cable and bracket

uploaded new Golf 301 PDF outline to umgolf.com

testing extra hard drives

Xerox logins in LA

installing Aperture 2 on the laptop

fixed HSRA MN security cameras

maintenance and upgrades on CodeDev server

re-imaging HSRA0303

updating HSRA0303

lunch at Subway University

trolling LA machines for new proxy sites

setting up HSRAcards mini

reading about the Edvisions Online High School

reading Aperture 2 review

Bootcamp mouse issues

getting run.mn prepped as well

need to fix Twitter Tools sidebar formatting

also need to change Pro Am registration code, but brain is too tired

$250 for an annual pass to Nick Universe? oh hell no

backed up home G5 tower

Airport Utility and Office 2008 updates

cleaning up proam.mn registration code

looking for Javascript form validation code to prevent http:// entry in a text field

D300 review

New registration pages up

updated advisories 5 and 6, plus pre, video and graphics in LA

updated advisories 3 and 4 in LA

reset security camera upload in MN

lunch at Big Bowl with Jake

mice and CF card from Best Buy

daily LA network check

photo book and notepads from Barnes and Noble

dinner for the family from Boston Market

sunny and 53 degrees never felt so good

went to kid one’s recital, then watched Brodeur kick ass

listening to the REM concert from SXSW on NPR

updating advisories 1 & 2 in LA

mmm…Egg McMuffin breakfast

loading up the new Moleskine

Hockey in Minnesota blogroll link on Russo

software updates in Seattle

selecting backup hard drives for LA

checking Retrospect in Seattle

doing some DNS configuration on JB

mailing care package to HSRA LA

only one new proxy in LA today

finished entering items in the Moleskine

I miss Beavis

swim class for kid two at Wise

on the road – heading north

Sven and Ole’s Pizza for late lunch

checked in at the AmericInn Tofte

heading to Richard Thompson at Papa Charlie’s in Lutsen

wow, what a show – update tomorrow

outlet mall at North Branch

Gophers vs Mavericks on FSN

stitches out for kid two, reward breakfast at Perkins

More RT at Lutsen

checking out Skitch

bought train tickets at the Amtrak station for Spring Break

Jake in MN

reviewing and entering BST data

Wild vs. Avs on Versus

My Sweet Wife

digging out the driveway – about 5 inches of heart attack snow

rebuilding Tony’s old PowerBook G4

hard drive working – installing Leopard

running Leopard updaters

Safari 3.1 update requires a restart? How Microsoftian…

I hate old equipment

Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 killed the PowerBook

let’s try this again; installing Leopard on the old PowerBook

entering BST scores in Excellence

quick proxy patrol in LA

Office 2004 updates on PowerBook

Kids Night at Perkins Apple Valley

Swim team and lessons at Wise for kid one & two

finally finished the BST data entry

7MM not validating now, hmm…

validation fixed – stupid line breaks

HSRA Minnesota board meeting

installing Safari 3.1 and security update 2008-002 on Hecubus

server prep for chinaclub.hsra.org

server upgrades on lee and sasquatch

checked HSRA LA firewall settings and logs

working on student and staff ID designs for LA card software

uploaded 2008 brochures to bradjamesgolf.com

uploaded new banner to the rotation at minnesota.hsra.org

staff ID connection works, students up next

In Bruges at the Uptown

late pizza roll dinner

Wild vs Sharks on FSN

Woohoo! Kids in the Hall at the Orpheum April 26th

updated LA machines in graphics, video and pre-production

server upgrades in LA and MN

updating Code Dev server

uploaded 2008 men’s invite and entry forms to proam.mn

cleaning up my desktop

updating wish list pricing and specs

lunch at Kim’s with Jake and Jake’s Wife

reviewing tech survey results

dropped off kid one at Skateville

Gophers vs Huskies on FSN

watching South Park on EyeTV

snowed in – winter storm warning

blizzard in Eagan

UND vs Denver on FSN

hulu.com isn’t too bad

UND is sad

Gophers vs CC on FSN

Wild vs Canucks on 45

haircuts with Kim for kid one & kid two

watching 24 from Netflix

cleaning up the office and inbox

Gophers vs Denver on FSN

channel flipping with the Wild game

Hey Calgary, how about Skoula for Iginla? They both end in la…

ew, that smell…

Easter lunch with the Kanes

Target closed for Easter? Dang it…

Packing for the train

Skiing requires too much crap

loading up the car and heading for the train station

waiting for the train

on the Empire Builder to Sandpoint Idaho

this train is MOVIN’

St. Cloud station

Staples Minnesota station

Detroit Lakes MN station

Fargo ND station

Grand Forks ND station

Devil’s Lake, ND Station

Rugby, ND station

Minot, ND station

Stanley, ND station

Williston, ND station

Glasgow, MT station

wireless in MT very spotty

Malta, MT station

Havre, MT fuel stop

Shelby, MT station

Cut Bank, MT station

Browning, MT station

Whitefish, MT station

Glacier was beautiful

Libby, MT station

Arrived safely in Sandpoint Idaho

iPhone works ok at Schweitzer

Greetings from Schweitzer

Sportin’ the C4L in Idaho

lunch break in the chalet

kid two like a Wild player – out with a knee sprain

kid one broke her new week-old camera

need to find a wireless hotspot

Cloudy and snowing, back to normal Schweitzer conditions

4 inches of wet new snow

Idaho Spud for Lunch

lifts are closed, time for the sun to reappear

real time scoring Wild vs Oilers on NHL.com

wireless internet in the chalet (paid – boo)

taking kid one to her all-day lesson

Powder Day at Schweitzer – 12 inches of new snow

kid two finished her shopping in the village

the sun makes a rare mid-day appearance at Schweitzer

lunch at the Chimney Rock with kid two

waiting for kid one to return from Mountain Riders

Marty with Party – Montana’s Classic rock from the 60s & 70s

kids hate that I know all the songs…feelin’ old

Marty with the Party playin’ Rocky Mountain High as the snow continues to fall outside

Live and Let Die – “that song is in Shrek the Third”

only a dusting of snow overnight; sun is shining

Tillamook Cheddar Burger at the Lodge

Mountains Actually Scare Me

Successful ski day today…heading home on the train tonight

The Snow Continues at Schweitzer

Dinner at the St. Bernard Keg

way to go Wild (thanks Chuck)

Sandpoint train station

Libby, MT

train is jam-packed again, but we are all sitting together

Whitefish, MT station – my favorite building on the route

Browning, MT – lots o’ snow

Cut Bank, MT – feelin’ sleepy

Shelby, MT – heading for the lounge car

Havre, MT – smoke ’em if you got ’em

finished Fight Club on the way out; almost done with Viesturs book on the way back

Empire Builder eastbound sold out for the next 4 days

snowing in Havre

Malta, MT – nap before standby for the dining car

Glasgow, MT – last Montana stop?

snowing in Glasgow too – is spring really here?

Wolf Point, MT – I was wrong

and guess what? It’s snowing here…

Williston, ND – snow

Flat Iron Steak in the dining car (cod & mac for the kids)

Minot, ND

finished the Ed Viesturs book

I can’t believe EDGE works in the middle of nowhere North Dakota

Rugby, ND

Devil’s Lake, ND?

Slept a little – no idea where we are

damn, only to Fargo

Detroit Lakes, MN

Staples, MN

estimated arrival 8:53am – almost 2 hours late

St. Cloud, MN

make that 2.5 hours late – stupid American trains

Becker Furniture World!

Elk River, MN

Links at Northfork – getting close to opening

Almost home…

ah crap, the new WordPress is out already?

Wild vs Avs at the X

Twins opener party at Allina Commons

wow, do the roads stink tonight

catching up on email after spring break

researching potential WordPress 2.5 upgrade issues

WordPress 2.5 + WPG2 = Bad News

lunch at the Parkview Cafe

Tony at the Parkview

downloading the HSRA LA high-quality video files

added Tony to twitter – twitter.com/tonysimmons

Saintanne’s Windows laptop is full o’ crap

swim time at Wise

upgrading Aperture on the G5

trying to get HSRA LA video in place online

laptop cleanup continues

lunch in the office for once

troubleshooting the LA video insert code

first kernel panic on this Mac Book Pro since, well, maybe ever

scanning for viruses now on the Wintel boat anchor

HSRA LA video seems to be mostly working – losangeles.hsra.org/video

Balls of Fury was pretty awful

walked two miles on the treadmill – brisk pace, uphill with hand weights

booked airfare to SFO for WWDC08 – only $239 RT

mailed camera back to Nikon for repair

troubleshooting LA issues

added a few tweaks to the Tapemark Pro-Am site

changes to the hsra.org domain settings at d.f and NetSol

temp changes at Dreamhost now in place

heading to the X for the last game of the regular season – Go Wild!

716 pictures at the game (so far)

we’re #1! Wild win first ever NW division title!!!

It’s Aboot Respect!

When did Disney-MGM Studios become Disney’s Hollywood Studios?

Working on cleaning up the last of the “special” projects

Sorry Canucks fans…

Office 2008 is the worst performer of any version I’ve used

working on domain management

Internet slow at work – wireless to blame, not Comcast

Lunch at Town Talk Diner with Hans, Jake and Mike

photo.jpg

checking out the new WordPress 2.5 admin panels

spring cleaning in the garage

Mini rear brake pads – not going well

taking a break from the brakes

one wheel down, trying to get other one to come off the dang car

rear brake pads both in place – hope I didn’t mess up anything major

working on tax form re-submission

first outdoor run of the year – 4 miles in Eagan

There was no way I was gonna walk around this place with my dork hanging out!

Red Wings vs Hawks in HD

Metropark at Mall of America

Wild vs Avs in HD on 5 – please win in OT

sweet – Avs in the first round

booked everything for the Seattle trip next week

wireless in the office still way slower than a wired connection

IRS tax response in the mail

researching Dreamhost transfers and setup

Lunch at Little Szechuan with Jake

prepping for Seattle server upgrades

VPN to Los Angeles

massive server clean-up in Seattle

heading to Metrowerks MINI for an oil change

online at in the Metrowerks lobby

updating LA pre-production machines

lunch at Axel’s Bonfire on Grand

hunting network gremlins at HSRA Minnesota

wrapping up swim time at Wise

compiling hockey stats

Best Buy for a new switch, now on to the dentist

setting up SVN and Ruby on my laptop

syncing production Excellence databases with Hecubus

liking the new Moby and Gnarls Barkley CDs

Wild vs Avs, playoffs first round at the X

traffic on 35E north stinks today

checking out network troubleshooting tools – in over my head

live video on masters.org kicks butt

nice session videos

hooked up the new Ricoh copier in Bonnie’s office to all the workstations

winter returns to Minnesota

fell asleep on the couch watching the Masters

watching McCallum from Netflix

library, Target run

lunch at the Strip Club

ordered new laptops for TC and Saintanne

cake and cookies for the ginger boy

watching warmups at the X – Go Wild!

this is depressing – Wild need some luck

lunch at Zantigo Woodbury

my first Masters in HD

researching UVNTV, Ice Cube, DJ Pooh and Silverlight while watching Walk Hard

heading to Al’s Breakfast

masters.org not holding up well to the Sunday traffic

where is the drama down the stretch at the Masters?

dinner with the King at BK

followed by desert at the DQ

Kipper-sieve in HD on Versus

way to go Flames! Cujo is the man…

heading to Seattle on Sun Country #235

RIP Parkview Cafe

landed at Sea-Tac

new switch installed and configured at digital.forest

working on new RAID config on Lee

installing Leopard Server on Lee

no DVD drive = firewire target mode install = slow

lunch with Chuck @ New Teriyaki & Wok

configuring the new Lee

tape backup deck cleaned and reconfigured

Lee running 10.5.2 Server – heading to hotel to test

overslept in Seattle

working in Chuck’s office at d.f

beginning the transfer of email accounts to Lee – testing with golfing.mn

so far, so good – Leopard Mail Server seems OK

waiting for Sun Country flight 288 to MSP

Wild spots Avs 3!?!? Not good – can they pull off a Calgary?

landed in MSP – what the hell happened Wild?

sick as a dog

in the office coughing with a stack of tissues

backing up the miniStack so I can get rid of the loud disk noises

transferred Studio4Staff mailman list to new mail server

updating network maps for Seattle and Code Minnesota

tweaking the code.mn site

damn, the miniStack is bigger than miniStackBackup

virtual users + forwarding + Leopard Mail Server = bad

back to visiting LA via VPN

Ran out of gas – taking a nap

waiting for warmups at the X – Go Wild!

new mail server causing me issues and all I want to do is sleep

so it appears Comcast residential internet is preventing me from sending email via port 25 to the new server

seems like the other email server issues are actually DNS and password related (I hope)

New Atmosphere debuts on MySpace

reading the Leopard mail server docs re: SSL, auth methods and ports

make-up lesson for kid two at Wise

Kid One: “Ads are crappy”

heading to Jeff’s 60th birthday party

Chuck D with Slug and Brother Ali at the Fitz

Alaska Week on Discovery Channel HD is making me tired

Boston Marathon on Versus

lunch and chair shopping at IKEA

IKEA Bonny chairs easiest assembly ever

purchased and installed SSL cert from GoDaddy for mail.studio-4.com

You aint no tiny cocktail sausage, you can be the fat bratwurst with our concoction

quick sweep of HSRA LA

At least one of the Koivu brothers made it to the second round

Huzzah! My new mail server appears to be working with SSL and alternate ports to make Comcast happy

Registered for 2008 Twin Cities Marathon

last big mail server issue: forwarded mail to virtual users gets sent AND bounces back to sender

booked Monday AM flight to LA on Sun Country

curse you mail server – so close, yet so far

added Postfix-style aliases to server, but that had no affect on the forwarding issue

removed the separate postmaster accounts and made them regular aliases – still need a forwarding fix

wow, I think virtual alias forwarding is working now

lingering DNS issues for central87.com

4 domains left to transfer to the new mail server

swim night at Wise for kids one & two

ran 3.1 miles in Eagan

adding some new stuff to 7minutemiles.com – runner’s log and new header photos

best Mac laptop utility I’ve used

come on Flames, step it up or you’re playing golf with the Wild

can’t wait for Detroit-Colorado

moved two more domains to new mail server and updated DNS records

Happy Birthday Aunt Stacey!

last two domains transferred to new mail server – DNS updates remain

lunch with DK’s wife at Midtown Global Market

last of the DNS updates submitted

Manny’s Tortas are tasty

duh, blaness.com email might actually work if I updated the DNS zone file

a few tweaks to the Tapemark Women’s site

so does WordPress really need a cache plugin or not?

damn, that was tweet #666…

creating a pro-am YouTube account

http://www.youtube.com/user/tapemark

ran 6.0 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley

give me a bottle of anything, and a glazed donut, to go

I think I want a Canon VIXIA HV30 – need to talk to Terry

Saint Joe’s surgery waiting room (with free wireless)

just booked a room for WWDC at the Orchard Garden Hotel – pricey

mom is out of surgery – waiting to talk to the doctor

everything went fine; waiting to see Mom in room 319

Mom at Saint Joe’s

fixing some student photo issues in Excellence

so Jose isn’t a super goalie? Go Wings!

re-reading the online science testing docs

taking kid one to the doctor for allergies

lunch with kid one at Arby’s

back at the hospital – mom not so great

mom was moved from recovery to cardiac and now to ICU

waiting for an update from the ICU nurses

forgot to mention, cardio floor nurse said she would likely need a pacemaker

get to see mom in 5 minutes

earlier, the previous ICU nurse said potassium high, blood pressure low, blood sugar high

mom looks much better than earlier today

blood pressure back up 117/59, main doc said to start insulin IV drip

mom was awake, talking and said her hip hurt and to give the girls a hug

heading over to Minnehaha Park to register for Get in Gear 10K

they had a pet monkey, he liked to get drunkey

dinner at Granite City with Jean and the family

watching Dufus score goals for Pittsburgh in the SCPs

now the “North” Stars in the shark tank (HD)

take that, San Jose!

32 degrees, snowing, 23 mph wind – my people are stupid

talked to mom’s nurse – heart rate up, but Karen says she’s fine, don’t visit

Look at all the stupid runners!

58:20 (unofficial)

why didn’t the Wild get to play *this* Avs team?

heading for dinner at Luci, then Kids in the Hall

press 3 for chicken ladies

visited mom tonight – she’s been transferred out of ICU (back to Cardiac) and was looking great

way to go Stars – keep it going…

waiting for Sun Country flt#421 to LA

on the plane – should be on time

landed in LA

nice morning meeting with Dr. Murphy

mmm… In-N-Out burger

total LA machine upgrade frenzy

dinner with Phil at El Torito on the Redondo Pier

run/walk with Phil to the breakwater

cleaning up infected Windows machines at HSRA LA

picked up some supplies at Best Buy and Home Depot, then crazy chicken for lunch

headed to dinner

heading to HSRA LA staff meeting

last of the Windows clean-up

lunch with Dr. Murphy at Noah’s

Shooby Dooby Down To Ruby’s Diner

Doooooo

finished the main advisory upgrades via VPN

ran 13.1 miles along the Strand (Redondo to Hermosa to Manhattan Pier)

oops, Google Maps says it’s only 11.3 miles

thanks Mike!

late breakfast at Uncle Bill’s Manhattan Beach

*still* cleaning up infected Windows machines

Windows machines at HSRA LA finally clean

working on two new network video cams

rebuilding HSRA0419

one new camera installed and configured

second camera installed and configured

rebuilding an Intel-bootable external Firewire drive

finished the straggler machines in the big space

Twitter is my new BaseCamp

fixed a few student accounts in Workgroup Manager who were missing home directories (and student group membership)

going to dinner with Phil – fish and chips at Mickie Finnz Fish House in Redondo Beach

Hey Avs – was Forsberg worth it? Go Wings!

returned the car, heading for the terminal

way early for Sun Country flt#410, LAX-MSP

on the plane – running a little late

landed in MSP

back in the office trying to get organized

printing manuals for Pearson’s MN online testing program

status update email to LA staff

ordered new mice for HSRA MN from Amazon

sent VPN app with settings to Dr. Murphy

modified Cisco VPN server settings in LA

ordered OmniGraffle Pro 5 upgrades

damn, Grand View Lodge might be full

a love for which there is no name

Pro-Am meeting at Tapemark

Watching An American in Paris

another one bites the dust: Grandma’s Minneapolis

haircuts for kid two and I with Kim

Cannon Falls bakery – heading to wedding in Plainview MN

Happy Birthday Mr. Podolak!

Jeff and Peter in Cats at the Maplewood Community Center

Red Balloon and Grand Ole Creamery

making Karen go for a walk

dinner at Lucky’s

Stars vs. Sharks on Versus HD

attempting to upgrade 7 Minute Miles to WordPress 2.5.1 and WPG2 3.0.6

all seems well so far (except for the ratings on my golf scores database, which seems totally unrelated)

golf scores back now too – Retrospect backups worked (and MySQL changed the format of decimal types)

some weirdness with default image sizes in the new gallery features

how long is this game gonna last?

See you next year, Sharks

Retro is back?

Anybody remember The Dreadnaught Factor?

heading to Mall of America Apple Store

time to unpack some new iMacs

ran 3 miles in Eagan

final online testing prep

Eschelon/Integra Twin Cities internet outage on my first scheduled day of online testing – sigh

proctor caching server almost loaded up

online science testing for HSRA MN is ready to go

revenge of the old mail server

restarting main Seattle web server

JB down

PHP4 + PHP5 + OSXS GUI = Apache bus error

registered for Milk Run 2008

library, then to swimming for kid one and two at Wise

ran 5K in Eagan (after the rain)

Like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat

fixed some CMP website issues

last email server change DNS issue resolved by d.f

faxed agreement to Mystic Lake for upcoming retreat

upgraded HSRA LA site to WordPress 2.5.1

updated HSRA LA website headers to remove Media Arts Academy logos

created database tables for HSRA LA wish list and endowments

loading up HSRA LA endowment database with info

loaded up HSRA LA wish list database with info

Buffalo wings at Fridays – the flair is gone

back from Best Buy (purchased headphones for the online testing machines)

working on new HSRA LA pages and database code

initial HSRA LA Support page up

new rooms at the Mirage look cool

watched Lars and the Real Girl from Netflix

taking some time off this morning, then lunch with Jake

played 18 holes at Valleywood, MGA tees, 87

nice lunch with Jake at Prima

troubleshooting Studio 4 webmail issues

trying to restore regular wireless in St. Paul office

Island green at TPC – doesn’t seem so hard to me

cleaning up the proxy list at OpenDNS

waiting for Colleen’s car at Burnsville Honda

Stars vs. Wings on Versus HD

ran 5K on the treadmill

pastries for parents at Deerwood Elementary

fixed Studio 4 webmail and added custom logo

heading to Colleen’s graduation from grad school

708 graduates this spring (masters and doctorates)

Spring 2008 Commencement, University of Minnesota

laaate lunch at Annie’s Parlour

battle of Pennsylvania on Versus HD

next Tuesday on Frontline: Breashears’ Storm Over Everest (PBS, 8pm)

wet Golfing with Goldy, but still very fun

heading home from the Twins game on the train

poker night with the neighbors

Byerly’s for Mother’s Day treats

MN Golf Champions at Bearpath

visiting Grandma Jean

visiting Grandma Karen

kid two softball camp, Eagan HS

dinner with mom at Panera

movie night – Enchanted on DVD

Hockey Central on Versus HD

uploading photos

business plan? who needs a business plan?

wow, is Detroit good or what?

watching on Survivor Finale on EyeTV

morning errands

met Duff Thury, who is redesigning the big space at HSRA Minnesota

deleting spam on my Google HSRA account

more prep work for the retreat

fixed a login issue in LA

swimming at Wise for kid one & two

new MN Publishing site is live – publishing.mn – know anyone with $75K burning a hole in their pocket?

meeting with MGCSA in Minnetonka

I’d buy that for a dollar

bird and onion rings from Porky’s

working on the upcoming summer schedule

cleaning up old MN domain placeholders

renewed a few MN domains for another year

deleting expired MN domain directories

ran 2 miles in Eagan

stupid Dallas – Go Wings!

WordPress Upgrade Day

deck + sun + birds chirping + 70 degrees + wireless network = perfect office setting

all of my sites now running WordPress 2.5.1 (even the Gallery 2 ones)

upgrading and standardizing WordPress plugins

changed admin passwords on all WordPress sites

picked up Dr. Murphy at the airport, had breakfast at Al’s, then dropped her off at the Marsh

late lunch at the Meadows Grille

Dinner at the Mystic Buffet

Started meetings too early

breaking for lunch

family BBQ night at the Meadows Grille

swimming in the pool with kid two

waiting for day three of the retreat to begin

morning check-out break

working lunch with Dr. Murphy

wrapping up the retreat

ran 7 miles in Eagan

retreat debrief with staff

trying to fix upstairs wireless issues

Taz machine is back online, now software update is broken

updating the domains database

removing ninjaroadie.com and ninjaroadies.com from Apache and DNS configs

set up new Studio 4 email account for Dr. Murphy

created Studio 4 executive mailing list – still need to test

Mr. Bungholio and the Twirling Fartknockers

Detroit vs. Dallas on Versus HD

Congrats Red Wings! Detroit vs. Pittsburgh should be good…

“frank shoemaker would call this noise” – silly nerds

rebuilding HSRA LA mac minis

More spring cleaning in the office – so much dust

heading to lunch, First Tech and the post office to mail a package to LA

running Windows updates on Bootcamp machine

I love Twitter (when it works)

swim meet for kid one at Oak Grove

free, unblocked wireless at the swim meet rocks

running to Target for work stuff and Toys R Us for Wii Fit

cleaning Eagan office

catching up on my mail and inbox

WordPress 2.5.1 + new image uploader = CSS theme tweaks

Wii Fit says I’m overweight, but I’m still keeping it

4th grade track and field day at Deerwood

HSRA Jazz at Rice Park

HSRA Jazz at Rice Park

Tapemark Pro-Am Meeting

Full WWDC schedule posted – getting excited!

Sweet – playing White Bear Yacht club in two weeks

Hmm…lots of “Session to be Announced” spots on the WWDC calendar…

1st Grade Track and Field Day

Family Movie Night – “The Game Plan” from Netflix

ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina

heading to Cheesecake Factory in Edina for an early lunch

heading to Hayfield to meet the Millers at the Oaks

played 18 holes at The Oaks in Hayfield – white tees, 94

mowed the lawn, now watching the Wings game from last night while cleaning up old Golfing in Minnesota posts

Jake’s too good for Twitter

Yikes! Stupid Twitter Tools…

Memorial Day at the mother-in-law’s house

Wings and Pens on Versus HD

syncing websites from JB to HecubusPro

setting up Studio-4.com and placeholder sites in Coda

removed actors.mn from JB’s Apache and DNS settings

setting up alrw.org in Coda

setting up anotherlevelrecords.com in Coda

created Studio 4 wishlist at B&H Photo Video

setting up click4life.org in Coda

downloading My-Education.org to Coda

setting up DNS and re-direct for studio4gear.com

synching thefoshow.com with Coda on Hecubus

Coda on HecubusPro and the Apache directories on JB in Seattle are finally in sync again

*finally* finished updating placeholder sites on JB

swimming for kids one and two at Wise

ran 5.22 miles in Eagan

got my design hat on this morning

picking up computers at First Tech

testing Leopard 10.5.3

played as a sub in my brother-in-law’s golf league at Oak Marsh; sucked it up

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly rocks

home office Comcast connection is very slow today

learning about Linux distros this morning

learning about virtual private servers this afternoon before the Tapemark meeting

Tapemark handicap meeting at SVCC

kid one swim team at Wise Swim School

plowing through the long to-do list I made while kid one swam

registered for Heart of the City Half Marathon in Burnsville

color printer in my office works again after Airport restart

half-way done moving Checkmate

Tapemark Pro-Am sponsor updates

adding WP-Sticky plugin to several WordPress sites

consolidating and moving domains between registrars

business lunch with Mike at Cecil’s

hey, the blue man is back!

damn, Network Solutions, let my domains go already

Network Solutions will release all domains except studio-4.com – waiting for tech support to explain why

constant fan on my laptop was caused by Last.fm using 100% CPU

no kids again-dinner at Khan’s & shopping in Eagan

Detroit vs. Pitt Game 4 on NBC HD

Grand Old Day 8K

mowed the lawn, now time to clean the garage

preparing databases and page code for 2008 Tapemark Pro-Am

met Soren at Cupcake to discuss ring designs

working on the drawing night presentation

played 18 holes with Todd, Paul and Phil K at White Bear Yacht Club – 89!

buried in Tapemark emails and tasks – Pro Am week must be here

Girl Scouts, library, picked up office projector, now dinner at Carbone’s on Randolph

Wings about to hoist the Cup???

somebody score already…

stupid Pens, but at least there’s more hockey

Pro Am drawing night presentation prep and database updates

I need to settle down

as ready as I’ll ever be for the drawing – heading to SVCC to test it out

37th Annual Tapemark Charity Pro-Am Pairings PDF posted at proam.mn

Online pairings now available here

golf league sub again at Oak Marsh

Congrats Red Wings!

damn, too busy to tweet much this week

ran 10.2 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley

heading out in the storm to meet Soren at Cupcake

final Tapemark Pro-Am prep underway – hope the place isn’t underwater in the morning

up and running at the 2008 Tapemark Charity Pro-Am

New PR at Heart of the City Half Marathon – 2:08:38

teeing off in round two in 40 minutes – need to play better

glad it’s over – missed the cut by one

the golf gods are crying because I don’t get the chance to post another three-digit score today

photos on the first tee

Tapemark done – congrats John Carlson!

heading to the airport any minute now

Sun Country flt#397 to SFO

WWDC here I come!

landed at SFO

in line at WWDC-different setup this year (will be in overflow room)

SausageFest08 has begun

pissed – Steve started without me

Walt Mossberg just walked by me

Thanks for retiring, Dominator (if you really mean it)

front row at the state of the union makes me feel better

network and portable home directories session

lunch at the Chieftain Pub

finished Bryan Rossi Survey Monkey setup

interim tweaks to HSRA Los Angeles site now live

new server feature session

netboot and managed clients with ARD session

deploying Macs in a highly secure environment session

Happy Birthday, Little Nuttzak

intro to Mac and iPhone development session

dinner at Lori’s Diner

HSRA Minnesota tech plan draft finally finished

ran 5 miles in San Francisco (Orchard Garden Hotel to Fisherman’s Wharf)

best practices for tiger to leopard server migration session

managing clients and preferences with Mac OS X and Leopard Server session

The Joy of MCX

Pixar dude in the Presidio Room

deploying and scaling iCal Server calendaring services session

CSS transforms and animations in iPhone web apps session

preparing and delivering video session

dinner at B in Yerba Buena Gardens

Apple Design Awards

Stump the Experts

building an advanced iPhone web application session

customizing and extending Leopard Server wikis session

lunch at Bradley Ogden’s Lark Creek Steak

running with dinosaurs: physics, physiology and fossils lunch presentation

scripting for system administrators session up next

TBWA Media Arts Lab session

creating Ruby on Rails apps session

Bare Naked Ladies at the Beer Bash

extending and troubleshooting directory services session

unleashing Leopard Server performance session

iPhone app development from a .Net perspective talk

best practices in Mac OS X administration panel

WWDC08 is in the books – lots to study this summer

wow, Tiger is so not-rusty it’s scary

dinner at Buckhorn Grill in the Metreon

waiting at the airport – Fletch, Bubble Bobble

Sun Country fly#398, running a few minutes late

landed MSP

section B, row 1 for Gnarls Barkley at the Grandstand

memorial service for Grandma Smith at Acadia

lunch at Grandpa Smiths

cleaning, lawn work and laundry – Happy Father’s Day!

late lunch at Raising Cane’s AV

ran 5K in Eagan – now my legs *and* back hurt

checkmate has been transferred – testing and updating to follow

dropping kids in St. Paul, haircut, T-ball, office

why is the NBC “live” feed of the Open playoff not really live?

I guess it was just my DVR delaying things…

watching old CSI episodes from Netflix

cleaning the home office – what a disaster

first attempt at Mac mini hard drive replacement surgery

mini brain transplant seems to be working

installing and upgrading Leopard client on DK mini

loading and configuring MySQL 5.0.51b on new mini

Apache 2.2.8, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.51b and phpMyAdmin 2.11.6 all up and running on new mini

I can’t believe the stock version of PHP5 on Leopard client lacks GD and mcrypt support – waiting for Marc at Entropy

finalizing HSRA MN tech plan and printing 2007 receipts for Bonnie

HSRA Tech Plan submitted to the state

HSRA Minnesota Apple lease proposal – bringing the wish list to life

HSRA Minnesota proposed technology investment – $230K

The Promotion at Lagoon in Uptown

Dinner at Figlio

Testing out Firefox 3

setting up Time Machine backup drive on new mini for versioning, along with SuperDuper! for bootable backups

wow, I really hate GUID Partition Table versus Apple Partition Map

ran a really slow 10 miles through Eagan and Apple Valley

testing ARD access, bootable clone and headless booting on mini

running software updates on the Seattle servers

backing up laptop, home tower, photo archive

possible to run BIND9 on Leopard client? seems to all be there…

testing Google Apps for Domains for individual domains

most annoying WordPress 2.5 upgrade error yet

added a bunch of 1986 first day covers

met with Justin Williams

setting up accounts on new mini

removed 7MM email accounts from JB and Lee

7MM email up and running great on Google’s infrastructure

transferring Hockey in Minnesota email to Google

off to see Indiana Jones at Regal

Wow, was that movie awful! George Lucas needs to retire and count his money…

transferring Skiing in Minnesota email to Google

ran 5K in Eagan

transferring Run in Minnesota email to Google

transferring Food in Minnesota email to Google

packing mini server for shipment to Seattle

transferring MN Publishing Company email to Google

transferring St. Paul Central Class of 1987 email to Google

updated B&H Photo wish list for Studio 4

transferring Golfing in Minnesota email to Google

cleaning old domains off the server (Apache, DNS, MySQL)

transferring Tapemark Charity Pro-Am email to Google

18 holes at Braemar (19-9) – 88 from the whites

Eagan Art Fair, then Rock the Garden at the Walker Art Museum

On the bill: Bon Iver, Cloud Cult, The New Pornographers and Andrew Bird

Juicy Lucy for dinner at the 5-8 Club

Star Wars exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota – old nerds unite!

nice to have the kids home from Grand Marais – the cheap labor returns

RIP Keith Turnipseed – HSRA Minnesota staff member

Happy Birthday Colleen!

Hmm, my Gallery2 install decided on it’s own that my admin account shouldn’t have admin access to the gallery – fixed

birthday lunch for Colleen at Punch Neapolitan Pizza in Highland Park

heading to the Guthrie for rush tickets to The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (hopefully)

server configuration in Seattle in one window, software updates in LA in another, all while sitting in my MN home office – ARD rocks

ran 4 hot and humid miles in Eagan (and ate two bugs by accident)

Most of my MN publishing sites (run.mn, hockey.mn and golfing.mn) now display right in IE6 thanks to browsershots.org – screw IE4 and 5

updated Seattle servers to remove expired farm.mn – what was I thinking when I registered *that* one?

going to flush some money down the toilet at the horse track

birthday dinner for Colleen at her mom’s house

Sun Country flt#421 to LAX

landed LAX

breakfast at Redondo Beach Cafe

wow, gas is $4.59 here

walking to Manhattan Beach pier for dinner

dinner at Fonz’s Steak & Seafood in MB

Sunday meetings at HSRA Los Angeles

lunch with Studio Phil at Uncle Bill’s in Manhattan Beach

saw Wall•E tonight with Phil – two thumbs up, despite the awful kids (and parents) sitting behind us

Vote for Lubo – now playing in Edmonton

ran 6.4 miles on the Strand through Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach

upgrading the HSRA LA studio workstations to Leopard

upgrading HSRA-LA Xserve to Leopard Server

whoa, where did 10.5.4 come from?

first Kincaid’s Bayhouse in Redondo, then the Kettle in Manhattan Beach

just when I decided to save up for a D300, along comes the D700 – curse you Nikon

Sun Country flt#422 – got to LAX early to switch from crappy middle seat to exit row aisle

kids trying on wedding dresses – won’t be long before it’s their wedding…sigh

morning meeting with the consultant, lunch at Cecil’s, followed by meetings with seemingly everyone else at HSRA MN

ordered hard drives and accessories from OWC

best part of Guitar Hero Aerosmith for me (so far)? playing with DMC on King of Rock

pre-dawn day trip to Grand Rapids (MN) with kids one and two

good morning Milaca

breakfast at the Garrison McDonald’s

Eagan to Ruttger’s Sugar Lake Lodge in 3:20

shot 83 from the whites at Pokegama

shot 86 from the blues at Wendigo – 36 holes in one day – woohoo!

Happy Independence Day! heading to a lake outside Luck, Wisconsin to ride jet skis and visit family

watching Miyazaki-san’s Porco Rosso – great flyboy movie

finished season five of Ballykissangel

ran 13 slow miles in Eagan (Diffley/Hwy 3/Cliff/Nicols) with the three bad H’s – hot, humid, hills

Happy 40th Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

updating pricing info for HSRA Minnesota and Studio 4 2008-09 tech purchases

locked out of the upgraded Leopard server in LA – no ARD and no SSH

taking kid two to T-ball practice

taking kid one to the very first tuba lesson

had no idea Google was Apple’s largest corporate customer

this is just great: Flames sign Bertuzzi

about to give up on Entropy PHP on Leopard – installing Xcode and MacPorts on new personal server

catching up on the discussions about the state of firewalls on Leopard client (app versus ipfw) – hello WaterRoof

mini server: files transferred, firewalls configured, lack of X11 resolved and PHP5 with GD and mcrypt almost done compiling via MacPorts

everything on MacPorts was working, except for mysql client – got older entropy package to work on Leopard instead (for now)

now I need to learn virtual host config on Apache2

had lunch with Justin and TC at the new St. Paul Salut on Grand – good fries

dinner at Perkins – kids eat free (it costs money because it saves money)

upgrading Seattle servers – also trying to decide what to do about the DNS advisory

ran 4 miles on the flat(ter) Eagan square route

finally figured out Apache2 config differences and squashed all of the logfile error messages – first two sites transferred and running

budget meeting interrupted by LA school crisis – TC leaving for the airport today

heading to Oak Marsh to sub in my brother-in-law’s golf league

best round ever – shot 80 from the whites at Oak Marsh

ran 5 miles in Eagan

dead hard drives multiplying like rabbits – at least MB drives are easy to remove

want to load 2.0 on the phone, but too busy updating DNS right now

nature is putting on quite a show right now outside my window – wind, hail, rain and now a tornado warning

first WordPress site successfully transferred to new server (once I figured out to re-set AllowOverrides in Apache2)

can’t believe Barnes and Noble had my obscure Cocoa programming book and Best Buy had SATA laptop drives in stock – instant gratification!

Wild Select-A-Seat at the X

finally installing 2.0 on the phone – this is going to cost me money, isn’t it?

it won’t cost me money if it can’t connect to the iTunes store

spent my iPhone-less day dropping off kid one in Minneapolis, lunch at Davanni’s with kid two, then a quick visit to HSRA MN

iPhone back now (and syncing), just as I start to install Leopard on new Mac Book laptop drive – recovery Friday, I guess

wonder how many Apple server admins are looking for new jobs today

listening to KROQ from LA on my iphone is pretty frickin’ sweet

I could spend all day in the App Store – need more storage

Poker night during the storms

ran 4 miles in Eagan – not helping my golf game…

Cannon Falls Bakery and Greg’s Meats – best reasons to play golf down south

shot 96 from the whites at the Summit

returned from the annual summer church picnic at SJN

transferred 7minutesmiles.com and hockey.mn to the new server

heading out to see Hellboy 2 at the theater in Inver Grove Heights with the DIY popcorn butter dispensers

Hellboy 2 was the movie Lucas used to make before he started sucking

last of the domains transferred to my personal server – now to wait for DNS to propagate, then clean-up on the old server begins

Colleen passed her capstone/thesis defense with flying colors – officially a masters grad

heading for Al’s Breakfast to celebrate

from GoDaddy to customized WordPress blog in about two hours

Happy (real) Birthday Miss Cook

ran 10 miles in Eagan & Apple Valley before it got *really* hot and humid – Gatorade never tasted so good

taking the kids to the new Buffalo Wild Wings in Eagan for early lunch

checking DNS on willow at d.f, making a clean-up list, removing directories and apache configs from old server

what part of the “No Solicitors” sign don’t you understand, people who ring my doorbell?

pulling down old log files – would like to integrate with upcoming AW Stats install on personal server

had lunch with Studio Phil at Little Szechuan in St. Paul – man, those pork shreds are good

setting up a bunch of vanity placeholder websites for various vain people

ran 7 miles in Eagan – still hot and humid at 6am

nothing like the Open Championship live in the morning

tested Elgg 1.0 private beta – looked pretty damn nice

summer’s over – school supply shopping at Target

despite the now leasing sign by the street, it appears Viva Italia is just remodeling to add a gelato and expresso bar

woohoo – a working VNC client on the iphone

time for some WordPress 2.6 testing

15 WordPress sites upgraded to 2.6, 5 or 6 to go

depressed yesterday – don’t know why I thought watching Schindler’s List today was a good idea…

ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley

Transferring six more domains over to Google for mail and other online app services

domain management clean-up – how did we ever end up with so many?

set up some new hsra.org subdomains: backstage, vip, holla, peep, thefo and flow – holla.hsra.org, yo

sweet – Robert Cray Band at the Fitzgerald on 9/26, 8th row

added placeholders for tc-ellis.com, nmhigh.com, anotherlevellearning.com and hiphopgenesis.com, along with several variations – CLI burnout

shot an awful 95 from the whites at Baker in the rain

dinner with the family at the Eagan BWW – can’t get enough…

family movie night – Alice in Wonderland

late night review of awstats install and configuration on Leopard – what a wild Saturday night

bravo, Padraig, bravo

appear to have awstats running correctly on the mini server – now to set up the 30+ domains, add to launchd and integrate old log data

turns out 12 miles on the bike isn’t much easier than 10 miles running; uphill = bad

awstats + large old log files + DNS lookups = slow

got a haircut, bought some new running shirts, waiting for more logs to roll over and now pancakes for dinner

nice walk around the neighborhood, now reading about Victoria Island on the porch b4 the bugs arrive

almost forgot what my St. Paul office looked like – summer is awesome

fixed office projector, mini server, security cameras and iTunes library

office wireless speeds ten times slower than my wired connection for downloads, about the same for uploads – weird

new stats reporting install up and running on mini for all domains, script set to update at 12:30am

cleaned up my Google Analytics account – switched from urchin.js to ga.js and added a bunch of new domains