Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Day Five

Okay, so I really never made it past Day One.  I’m not sure if it’s normal, but I had probably the worst headache in 10 years about four hours into The Purge.  Needless to say, I’m postponing the rest of the experiment until I have a few days where I can get away with doing absolutely nothing.

Can someone please stop the rain in Austin?

Day One

So Stacey and I decided to pick up some Rapid Cleanse - 7 day cleansing system from Whole Foods yesterday. The DVD of Brenda Watson is one of the worst videos I’ve ever seen in my life–right up there with Because I Said So.

We’re on the first day as of this morning and the abdominal pain is rather intense. That’s all I’ll say about that.

I won the lotto!

If only this were true:

The UK National Lottery
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Batch:10.16.21.24.34.45.(60)

Our Dear Winner,

You have won the sum of £1,000,000.00
(ONE MILLION Pounds Sterling) from UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International Program on our 2007 new year charity bonanza
which took place on July 2007.

The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email
Users,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.
We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a
monthly lottery. Failure to claim your win will result into the
reversion of the fund to our following month.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately out Claims
Department below quoting winning number: WINNING
NUMER:10.16.21.24.34.45.(60)

Name :Mr. Adams smith
Email:lisa_moose@yahoo.es
Tel phone :+447045712608

Congratulations once again.
please quote your winning number.

Yours faithfully,
MRS. Lisa Moose
Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Joyent

I’ve been looking at switching up the way I host a lot of my sites–especially PicRave–which will, in turn, make everything a hell of a lot more scalable than my current way of doing things.

  • Joyent seems promising. Its “Accelerator” specifically. Everything on their technical specifications page seems top notch. Basically, I could just upgrade my plan as I go and not have to worry about adding more servers manually, configuring network hardware, provisioning the added servers and worrying about different levels of replication, high availability, and monitoring.
  • Keep hosting with ThePlanet and grow as I need to but have all of the problems I basically wouldn’t have it I went with Joyent.
  • Do some colocation and buy my own hardware. Haha, yeah right.

I’m going to give it a test run with their basic plan and see how that goes. I’ll report back here with more information as I build out my slice there.

The Day After the 4th

It’s weird going back to work after a midweek day off. It feels like a Monday for some reason.

Transformers was a good flick. Sure, it had its cheesy one liners near the end of the movie that made me chuckle, but for the most part, it was a well put together action movie. Anyone who disagrees went in expecting too much from a summer blockbuster. This formula works, obviously, as shown by its opening numbers.

We have some idiots that live in the next building over in our condo-plex. I know it was the 4th of July and all, but it does not justify making all kinds of noise at 3am nor does it justify shooting fireworks until 5am. Shooting fireworks within the Austin city limits is illegal, mind you. Their neighbors are all kinds of pissed and it won’t surprise me if these kids are banished soon–hopefully they’re renters.