At work I've been pretty busy, and have gone through a few ad hoc capturing tools. First it was the steno notebook. Followed by the hipster pda. That worked pretty well except when I forgot it or inevitably lost it, it would wreck havoc on the rest of my day since half my brain was in there. The last time I left it at home, I decided to look for alternatives.

Enter Evernote. Now the reason I had not originally gone this route was for the following reasons:

Say you or someone you know is burning some aromatics in the form of essential oils in a diffuser. Of course you forget to rinse it out, or you do and it gets sticky. You try cleaning it with scrubs, ajax, soap, about anything you find but it doesn't come out. What's the best option? Simple rubbing alcohol. Works like a charm!

I'm trying a bit of a social experiment with my site now since I'm getting it out of parked mode. Since my employer does some stuff with ads I thought throw my hat into the ring and see what happens. No pictures, no crazy blinkenlights, just your normal google ads. The reason is because my co-located server doesn't pay for itself and I'm trying to at least recoup some cost. We'll see if it's worth it. It'll be fun to see what happens.

I recently was given the privilege by google to try out google wave. After dinkering around with it for a few hours I have to admit, I don't get it.

It seems to try and combine e-mail, with some newsgroups/forums thrown in. Currently it's horribly unstable, and I'm trying very hard to see why it's at all useful. I use Facebook to see what my friends are doing. After a long period of resistance after trying out it's predecessors Friendster and Tribe only to fail I finally gave in. Facebook seems to have a good thing.

Ok just kidding. Though it's true. They say that content is king and that increases one's SEO. That said, my SEO must be in the crapper! Section6 started out as tutorials, back when I had all the time in the world. Now that there's a home to maintain, full time+ time job, and a house to maintain this blog has stagnated. The issues so far:

Many of these blog posts are likely stale
- Yes it's true. I simply don't have time to update all this documentation I've created. Some may be useful, some may be crap.

The jails wikis are way out of date

People were sad and over all not having good days because of too much trust in the black box. ... Sure we were using raid5, but the data itself was not n+1 in that particular environment, and for that reason bad things were bound to happen.

So since I upgraded my cms I now no longer have my yummy green theme but a generic one with leaves. Leaves! It looks like I'll have to backport my green theme. I spent a bit of time on it before so it's probably worth keeping.

This isn't tech related at all but I thought I'd blog about it because I'm so annoyed... Merchant Name: TRILEGIANT CORP Merchant Type: OFFICE SUPP EQUIP Doing Business As: FAMILY FUN SAVER For some reason I haven't caught this for months. My bad, I should have caught it. In any case, these bastards have been charging my credit card for about $12 each month. I haven't received any office supplies from them, and certainly no family fun. I suspect this was done when getting a vacation done through Orbitz (who has simply awful customer service btw).

So it turns out, this was all due to this bug: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_11695.shtm What I'm not impressed about are a few things: * It took HP 3 months, and a lot of harassing to get them to tell us this. Previous, they sent a tech out to replace about every damn piece of the server except maybe the screws. Their techs are absolute morons. They have no concept of troubleshooting or the scientific method.

This is part rant, part message in a bottle. So my current place of work has standardized on the HP platform, specially, using HP DL360 G5's for both web and database platforms to great success! Until recently...