kz's blog

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The jails wikis are way out of date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 I think I have a condition that could be known as Microsoft Tourettes Syndrome. It occured to me while trying to open a docx document. For those of you who don't know. docx is that new MS XML format that's been getting so much press lately but that pretty much no one uses yet.

So I had the pleasure of going to OSCON this year and seeing a few hero's in the OSS world. I got to meet one of the people that inspired this site, Dan Langille. Though he said he'd never heard of this site (ok this isn't really a big site at all), it was fun to finally meet him. He was the one who I learned a lot of my basics on FreeBSD on via freebsddiary.com years ago (like late 90's).

I usually don't get nigerian scam e-mails, but I got the first one in a while and I found it entertaining: ---Begin Email--- From: NASH MAHAR Subject: Dear Beloved Dear Beloved As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is NASH MAHAR I am a merchant of Oman nationality but presently residing in london.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

These days my life has been all about backups. I've set up two backup systems recently, one at home and one at work. The one at work has just been a Veritas Netbackup system. Netbackup is great if: You're backing up to tape and need offsites. You're familiar using it.