2008 April 22 archive at Daniel Spisak on Technology

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I know I haven’t posted in a while here but that is going to be changing soon. Life has been pretty busy, but this is for good reasons. Things are getting done and progress has been made. After all, I did graduate! In the meantime, the Nonmundane.org server has moved to new hardware and a new OS. It’s now hosted on a custom box I built running FreeBSD 7 and it seems to be just fine. Sadly however, in the process of moving from the old and busted server (good riddance!) to the new hotness there were some bumps in the road. Namely, my entire Gallery 2 photo database and picture gallery is 7 different kinds of screwed up due to some demolished MySQL tables.

You may also have noticed that the blog is now running WordPress 2.5 and this has caused its own set of headaches. Namely, dealing with broken plugins, semi-functional Wordpress themes and general digital decay and cruft. Most of the blog is working but you will see some parts are, shall we say, running at reduced capabilities.

On top of all of this I am also attempting to figure out where I am having my birthday party still. My real birthday was April 12th which has come and gone and I was unable to celebrate at the time due to working in San Francisco running a show for work. I had a place in mind to have a party this Saturday evening on the 26th, but that fell through. My other alternate in mind wont work either since I know the person will be out of town in the mountains for the weekend. This leaves me with two remaining options, one in Marina Del Rey but I’m not really sure how many people would be able to make it or want to drive all that way or try and figure out yet another possibility. In any case, if you’ve got any ideas I am all ears.

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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