Musings of a technophile

For the past few weeks Ethan has been blocking the door, holding my shirt,or doing whatever he could to stop me from going to work. The reason? “I don’t care if we have to get a new house and I never get toys again, I just want Daddy to stay home with me!”. That breaks my heart anyways. I normally tell him that I have to go, and he will… Continue reading

We decided to have the birthday party for the boys over at the pool in our neighborhood this year on November 1st (yeah I know – little late blogging about this now eh? :P). We had a blow up bounce house that looked like a castle brought in for the bigger kids to play in, and we had the small bounce house that we own put in for the babies… Continue reading

Although I bought Kingdom Hearts II a long time ago, I didn’t get around to playing it until just recently. Kingdom Hearts II continues the story of Sora, Donald and Goofy – taking place right after the events of Chain of Memories. The beginning of the game sort of throws you for a loop, as you command Roxas. For those of you who didn’t play Chain of Memories like me… Continue reading

For the longest time getting my toddlers to brush their teeth was, to say the least, something to dread. My older son (who just turned three) would constantly talk, try to grab the toothbrush from me, or cry. My younger son (two years old) was even worse – kicking and screaming, crying, and then IF you managed to get the brush in his mouth, he would clamp his teeth down… Continue reading

While I was watching TV last week I noticed something about how drugs relating to sex are treated differently for men and women. This shouldn’t come at a big surprise, after all men and women do think about sex differently, however I just thought it was kind of funny.

For instance, let’s take the Enzyte commercial’s, you know, the ones with “Smiling Bob” and “the one daily pill for… Continue reading

I have a few routers at my work place, and I wanted to move some of them around in order to get some more redundancy going with hsrp (Hot Standby Router Protocol). I took an old router we had and booted it up on the serial port. Before making any changes I wanted to save the config real quick, so I thought saving it to the flash drive would be… Continue reading

This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.7 (it was 2.6 before) which had just come out two days ago.  Although nothing (if anything) changed on the pages that normal users see, the admin panel has been completely redone to be more efficient and flexible.  I think it really makes a huge difference as the old Admin panel really looked…well…old.  The new one allows… Continue reading

The second expansion pack to Half Life 2, Episode 2, continues the story of Gordon and Alyx immediately the event of Episode 1. While Episode 1 was about escaping from City 17, which left the entire game taking place in an urban environment, Episode 2 has a more outdoors environment. Most of the game is spent either in mine shafts, in rural area’s or forests. This gives the game… Continue reading

It’s been a while since I played Half Life 2. I played it almost immediately after it came out, and found it to be an incredible game. The amount of detail put into the game is great – from unique weapons like the gravity gun, the the detail on some textures, to the extensiveness of the AI.

Fast forward a couple years – a friend of mine bought me… Continue reading

I have some replicated tables on a server we use for reporting at work. We had put some indexes on the replicated tables, but these were not indexes we needed on our master database. Well sure enough one day we needed to redo replication, and of course when you redo replication, you wind up setting the tables back to their original states as on the master – meaning all our… Continue reading