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Where geeks get paid to be geeks! A podcast for Systems Administrators and IT Professionals from the perspective of a Systems Administrator. Podcasts are typically between 20 and 40 minutes in length.
It’s really sad… only a little over one mile of my 12.25 mile commute do I have to deal with traffic, and it seems almost daily that I end up dealing with a motorist who is either not paying attention or is simply a dumbass. I make it a point to ensure that I stop [...]
And dang it… I could have had more! Due to wonky weather and work issues, I ended up with 12 bike commuting days this month — same # of days as last month. However, this month, I rode door-to-door tackling the hill which is the last 3/4 of a mile before making [...]
Earlier this week, while browsing the net I clicked on another app and suddenly received the spinning beachball of death. And death it was. The drive simply took a dump on me and refused to be accessed any longer. I went to my iMac G5 and downloaded the latest Tech Tools Deluxe and ran [...]
I’m sure this is going to perhaps sound a little morbid, but I finally got to put myself to test in a real first aid situation. Now, to my colleague, I’m sorry that he was injured. I’d happily put my first aid test on hold for another time, BUT… hey, at least he did [...]
Once again, on my ride in to work I soaked up the experience of just being outside and riding along rather than stuck in traffic. I then came upon a momma river otter with three pups. The three pups were having a blast playing, jumping around, tackling each other in the water while [...]
Last week was my first week attempting to ride door-to-door and I did fine for my 3 days worth of commuting by bike. I also was interested to see that the trip is a 12.27 mile trip for a total round trip of 24.54 mile day. The kicker though is the trip home ends [...]
A little over a month ago or so I did a bunch of sitting portraits at work — corporate head shots if you will. Now, as people begin to ask for copies of those photos, I begin now to realize that I will never be a Studio Portrait Photographer. Not that I ever [...]
Today, on my 12th day of commuting by bike for the month, I decided to get a better idea on the distance to and from work. Turns out it is 11.62 miles each way for a 23.24 mile round trip — thus, the 278.88 miles for the entire month. So, remember that tank of gas [...]
On the deckProgress continues on the deck. This weekend I finished up the arbor and began cutting and installing the spindles. At this point, with approximately 70% of the deck railing in place, I’d say I have about 70% of that with spindles installed. I need to pick up more wood to [...]
Catchy title eh? First off, the dump simply refers to another info/brain dump that this post is fixing to turn in to. But first… I commuted by bike the full distance 3 days this week. My last attempt (last week) as well as the week of the 4th on my third day I didn’t feel [...]
This past weekend couldn’t have been better — well, except for my Home Depot experience — but I’ll even set that aside and claim the weekend was awesome. First off, we’ve been blessed with the most awesome weather over the month of July. It must be in direct exchange for the never-ending winter we experienced. [...]
We have frequented our local Home Depot since we moved to the Seattle area over 11 years ago. They’ve received a good chunk of our cash towards home improvement projects. ‘You can do it. We can help.’ Today was the worst experience I’ve EVER had at a Home Depot — there was one other time with [...]
I thought I got everything out of my head in last night’s post, but there still some stuff lingering there. Commuting: Today’s ride was amazingly easy — a very good ride. I need to get a bike computer so I can see just how fast I’m traveling. It seemed I was traveling faster today than previous rides [...]
This post has no real meaning, just a bunch of stuff that’s happened or been floating around in my head that I’ve wanted to blog about, but none of them are enough to warrant stand-alone posts. So… I’m dropping them in to one post. On the homefront I started on another three sections of the deck railing. [...]
You’d think that all my years in IT, I wouldn’t be one to jump on a new version like this, but heck… I’m a just a user now! Seriously… some nifty new features in this release. If you’re running a Wordpress site, do yourself a favor and upgrade. Technorati Tags: Wordpress, 2.6, upgrade [...]
One of my most favorite parts of the summer is firing up the grill, grilling ANYTHING after it’s been marinading in something for hours, and enjoying a nice dinner outside on the deck with my family. I don’t know what it is… but it certainly is one of my most cherished moments of the summer. In [...]
Who gets sick in July? I never would have imagined using a sick day in the middle of July — heck, I haven’t used a sick day all year, until now! I was really looking forward to getting up and biking in to work today too on the new ride. So now, that [...]
Image via Wikipedia Having purchased a quarter beef and half a hog, we wanted to keep close tabs on what we’re eating and as important, what we have left. We came up with a rather simple little tool for the task — a basic spreadsheet of numbers representing each cut and the quantity of each that [...]
Since my work week this week is a short one, just three days, I thought I’d see if I couldn’t commute by bike all three days. The weather here in Seattle is excellent for riding — unless your a serious die-hard rider which then weather doesn’t matter. I’m not even close to that stage, I [...]
So Thursday I made my first attempt at portrait photography. We needed new employee photos at work and we thought this would be a great opportunity for the photography club to get in some good experience. Turns out, the photography club was primarily just me. A couple of others did help out [...]
Photo courtesy of Shayan (USA) Tomorrow evening is my annual opportunity to knock the crap out of a golf ball, then hope I can locate the silly thing. I’ve loaded my bag with 4 sleeves of new balls. I know better than to buy expensive balls, the chances are just to great that I’m [...]
Ah… it’s very satisfying to have a stocked pantry and/or a full freezer. With our “economic stimulus” check that President Bush so graciously offered back to us, we decided to put it towards a half a pig and a quarter of a beef (grass fed). We received the pork 2-3 weeks ago, and the [...]
Half success! Left this morning at about 6:30 and arrived to work at 7:50. The ride was nice… a few rough spots on the trail due to tree roots, but I’m not complaining. I’m just glad that there exists such a nice trail for cyclists to use away from car traffic. The last [...]
Took a quick ride this evening — and I mean quick, no more than 20 minutes. But that was one painful 20 minutes and 2.2 miles. Every little bit helps to get my butt in shape. It doesn’t look like much, and to more experienced riders, it certainly isn’t, but it [...]
This evening I mapped our walk through our neighborhood and found it to be just shy of 1 mile. Pretty good, and something that we need to continue to do more of. So then I got to thinking about my bike ride this past weekend. Just shy of 14.5 miles round trip, but when [...]
But hey… you use what you got! Even if it is ghetto, it’s been very handy in determining how far I’ve ridden. Some day, when I get a new bike I’ll outfit it with a GPS meant for a bike, but for now, this little guy will do me just fine. So today, [...]
Today, day 3 of the “I’m looking forward to my wife’s return” weekend, the boys and I took a ride/walk through the neighborhood. We had a great time, Dan got some good experience riding on the streets and Darrin… he just loves to go places — doesn’t matter where. We even ran [...]
Yum… Daniel helped me prepare them, then we all three settled in for some home made hamburgers! Daniel is typically a pretty picky eater and usually won’t eat much meat. I had him help me prepare them by breaking up a slice of bread to crumbs before adding it to the meat [...]
Only one injury to report thus far… Darrin still doesn’t have this running bit down at 15 mos, ended up doing a faceplant on the sidewalk yesterday evening — Ouch! Wife is attending a quilting retreat this weekend so the boys and I are doing our “guys only extended weekend.” So far, so good… [...]
Now that I’ve reclaimed the blog, I’ve decided that there was no longer a need to maintain multiple blogs. So… I decided to consolidate my photos and elearning blogs in to the main blog, kevindevin.com. Hopefully it doesn’t cause too much pain, but heh… you didn’t have anything else better to do [...]
Definitely not the center image! We just recently purchased Flash CS3 at work. So now, as I wrap up my eLearning certificate with the UW, my next step is to dive in to teaching myself Flash. I’m looking forward to it, something different for me and an opportunity to “roll my own” where I [...]
She may be old, but she still rides! With the price of gas going up and my gut getting bigger, I’ve decided this summer would be a good enough time to try and tackle both if I could. So, I pulled old Betty out of the garage and gave her a little TLC to get her back [...]
Hello there folks! I’ve decided to reclaim the blog. When I started it several years back, it was simply a place where I scribed my thoughts and anything that interested me. Most of it was IT-related. I treated it like an extension of my memory. Things that were unique or just odd, I [...]
Kind of silly, but I’ve been pretty immersed in the use of Adobe Captivate for a re-branding project I’ve been working on. Throughout this entire endeavor though, I’ve been finding several little nuances within the app that I would LOVE to see improvement too or added features and capabilities — such as the grouping [...]
I just finished my final assignment for my Assessment and Evaluation course in pursuit of my eLearning certificate. If all goes well, all that remains is my practicum project which is due within the next few weeks. A large majority of it is complete, but I still have a few corners to round [...]
At least that is the way I feel sometimes. Even though my position within IT was terminated causing me to move on to greener pastures, it seems I can’t seem to shake some of the former job responsibilities. Over the weekend, the hard drive of our database server decided that it had had enough and wanted to [...]
As the weather gets better, some of the easiest photographic subjects make themselves available. This is one of the few tulips from the wife’s garden this year. Like I said, flowers tend to be just too easy to photograph — sort of like animals too. Hopefully I don’t clutter up this place with too [...]
What a beautiful day out today, so we didn’t waste it and enjoyed lunch at the local park. The boys had a blast playing on the playground, and Dad had fun because he got time behind the camera. A good day for all. This field was full of grass daisies, I believe that is [...]
The weather was spectacular today… enough so for the youngest boy to be able to get out and experience sidewalk chalk. Of course, a 13 mos old simply can’t resist the temptation to taste the chalk — yuck! Today was the first time I’ve picked up the camera in a few months. Things have been [...]
Someone I know within a large company tells me of an IT project that was begun in May of 2007 with a targeted go live date of August 1, 2007. Well… August came and went, as did the remainder of 2007. It is now coming to the end of February 2008 and the requirements [...]
After sucking wind that past couple of weeks on this challenge, today was just too beautiful of a day NOT to capture something. I have a list of the different things I want to capture for the challenge, but most of them will be better when the weather turns nicer and everything gets greener. But this [...]
What a beautiful drive in to work this morning! Everything just looks so crisp after a nice snowfall. Well… I’m sucking eggs on this challenge. I completely missed the week before, and am a day behind on last week’s. I hope to capture some more photos this week. Actually, I had captured a couple of shots on [...]
It was SUCH a beautiful day today… when I mentioned getting out and shooting some photos, she was all for it. We decided to check out a local establishment that used to be a dairy at one time. From what the wife tells me, some friends of her grandparents used to rent or lease out [...]
Today’s lunch was awesome! Not simply because we had sushi, but because we were provided a lesson on how to make sushi. My manager arranged a nifty lunch for everyone who was interested to show us all how to make sushi and then finally consume our creations. A fun experience and it all tasted great! You can [...]
One of our sales guys had his briefcase stolen just before Christmas. In it was his laptop and external USB drive where he had supposedly backed up his data. I’ve been peppered with question after question about his data and with each of my responses he winces more and more. “Dude… it’s gone. The data on your [...]
I love it when the wife diggs in to her quilting. I’m not exactly certain why. Perhaps it’s the creativity aspect of it. I know she’s happiest when she can be creative. It’s also been a while since she really got any good, quality quilting time in. She was just going through unfinished projects (known [...]
I’ve decided to jump in to Trevor’s 2008 Challenge to photograph where you live. I have to admit, I punted on this week’s (the first week at that) selection. The weather was just miserable — cold, rainy, and just overall yucky! This shot of the walking bridge at Bothell Landing doesn’t really do it [...]
Perhaps it shouldn’t matter since the last show was recorded and published on the 16th of December, but I had to disable my PodPress plugin which makes the podcast feed and its associated media player available. For whatever reason, the database queries are sucking up too much memory and causing problems with Wordpress itself. [...]
Fellow FiT member Douglas E. Welch blogged about a plugin that he stumbled upon that would allow one to easily upgrade a Wordpress installation with just a series of mouse clicks. This evening, I discovered another one of these little plugins. I haven’t tried it yet. If any brave soul has out there, let [...]
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