Tempus Fugit

Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies

Month: December 2011

  • Outdoor is better

    A couple of days ago I setup the bike on the trainer in the basement. As much as I like to ride and know this is a necessary evil to try and maintain some sort of conditioning over the winter, it sure is painful to ride indoors, going nowhere. Even with the tv or the iPod as a distraction, it is majorly boring. Spin classes are better with the company of others and a structured training program, but still outdoor is better.

    I hit some trails through Wittier Park today for a nice 28km ride in a balmy +2°

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  • Why you shouldn’t hang around railroad tracks

    It’s a nice sunny day and I’m out taking pictures with a friend. We’re in a very picturesque area that just happens to have a railway bridge over a river. This seems like a great subject for some interesting photographs. The bridge and track are up high so we scramble up the steep side of the railroad bed and get in position to take a few shots.

    What may not be apparent from the photo on the left is that in the distance, there is a curve in the track, and you really can’s see anything coming. We’re getting serious about getting some great shots, there are tripods in play and we’re right into the bridge structure. We’re concentrating, and perhaps not paying too much attention to our situation and the potential pitfalls of our activities.

    And then it happens, we hear a faint rumbling, and look up to see a locomotive coming quite quickly down the track. No warning whistle, why would there be, this is not a railroad crossing, and we’re not supposed to be there.

    We scramble to pick up our camera bags, tripods etc. and hustle to get off the track. Moments later this freight train barrels past us and the engineer shoots us a less that friendly look.

    Moral of the story, be aware of your location and don’t get overly involved in your pursuits. Either that or stay away from railroad tracks!

  • Updating to WordPress 3.3

    So I updated my Blog site to WordPress 3.3.  I used the “automatic” approach and of course ignored all the things you are supposed to do like backing up your database, disabling all plugins etc. etc., and things didn’t go so good.

    The updated didn’t complete properly. It ended in showing a blank screen shortly after initiating the update. In fact after that, the whole blog was “gone”, no errors in the browser, just a blank screen. Turns out the update process caused a crash of a lot of stuff on my hosting provider’s site, and he was not too thrilled about that. 

    Plan B, do a manual update, still no success, and I still can’t login to the wp-admin page. A little Googling and we decide to disable the plugins manually, and apparently, that was the money to get the site back up. So, right now I’m updating all the plugins, enabling one at a time, and hoping nothing crashes out again.

    Ever since the automatic update feature was introduced in WordPress all my updates have gone flawlessly, and I guess I was lulled into a false sense of security. Lesson learned, follow the process, back everything up, and give my hosting guy a heads up that “something” might happen.

    From the Updating WordPress « WordPress Codex

    Consider rewarding yourself with a blog post about the update, reading that book or article you’ve been putting off, or simply sitting back for a few moments and letting the world pass you by.

  • Utah Trip

    Sunset Point by Big Dadoo
    Sunset Point, a photo by Big Dadoo on Flickr.

    Have not got around to writing much (anything) about our late fall road trip to several national parks in Utah, but here is a photo from Sunset Point In Bryce Canyon National Park.

  • Ready for Holiday iPads and more?

    InformationWeek Mobile Edition – NEWS & ANALYSIS – IBM Equips IT To Welcome Holiday iPads

    After the New Year, expect employees at every level to bring iPads, Android tablets, and smartphones into work, looking to get on the corporate network.

    When that happens, IBM wants to make sure its customers will be ready, Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of IBM Collaboration Solutions, said in an interview this week. Last year, the joke was that many a CEO came back from the Christmas break with a new iPad that he expected to be able to use for work. When that happened, the CIO and IT team wouldn’t “want to say no, except that they’d just been working on a policy to ban these devices,” he said.

    The executive iPad is just the most visible symbol of the unstoppable trend toward the consumerization of IT and the trend toward employees bringing their own devices to work, Cavanaugh said. IBM has responded by delivering enterprise software that runs on these devices, whether they are owned by the enterprise or not. IT may not welcome the chaotic state of the mobile technology market, but mobility looms increasingly large in enterprise technology planning.

  • Twelve

    Mom-and-DadStill miss you.

    Think of you both most every day.

    Grateful for everything you poured into my life.

    Thankful that we will be re-united.