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2:20 AM Saturday, April 5, 2014
First week back commuting by bike since last October. Using the Willis Tower Bike Valet, and so far, totally worth it. Drop off the bike in the morning at the valet rack. Text down 10 minutes before I want to leave and the bike's there waiting for me at the rack. And I get a tune-up and cleanings for paying annually. Totally worth it when I rode in on Thursday when it was raining and my bike was inside all day instead of out in the elements. Riding on 700/25 now. I think I was on 700/28 last fall, and too long between rides to compare. We'll see how long it lasts. And, since it's been so long, been pretty sore and tired, but good sore and tired all week. Rough commute in a couple spots because of the road conditions (potholes) but overall not too bad. Changes the little routine I had for hitting up the data center to/from the red line though. Just means I go back to the previous full round trip every time now.
1:20 AM Friday, April 18, 2014
Webserver died a couple nights ago. Or actually, could have been even sooner. Or might not have actually died. I need to plug it into a monitor to see. It was the Mac mini (Mid 2007) running Debian. So reformatted and reinstalled Mavericks on Mac mini (Mid 2010) instead, and here we are. Good timing, because I had just set up BitTorrent Sync to sync all the files for backup as well as a true mysql backup job, so I had data from 4/16/2014. Hoping the hardware just died, and it's not getting hacked into constantly. Will have to wait and see how this one does. Pretty easy to get it all set up. I think anyway. Seemed to have a little issue getting PHP and MySQL up and running, and mcrypt for PHP installed as well. I put brew on it, but thinking I don't actually need it, and could have probably figured out a way around it. But it worked. Found out the web server was down because I wanted to actually do some work on it, mainly making the admin page for Daily Dose responsive by using Bootstrap, like the theme for the Memex is using. Maybe this weekend. And then maybe trying to use Bootstrap for Daily Dose itself as well, instead of the hack for mobile devices that I have now. But mostly back up and running. So that's good.
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