Category: CKB

Coffee achieving

So the first real test of any new neighborhood, even more than the grocery and restaurant test is what the coffee situation is like. Choice #1 is still the coffee I brew myself, but a close choice #2 is the Plantation Coffeehouse on the corner of 2nd St. and Ravenna (address is 5708 E. 2nd, Long Beach, CA) on Naples Island.

Been coffee achieving there every morning this week and like the coffee there a lot.

Egoscanning via Google again

Google picks me up in the oddest places…

  • In the ReadMe file for the Ricochet spam reporting agent. Funny thing here is that it’s a way old friends.net address from when Xplain still had the domain. Now friends.net is an dating service.
  • A Japanese site with an email address that’s over ten years old.
  • A forwarded article about a faked treasure find.
  • My 72nd place finish in the 1998 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.

The first shambling down a long server migration road

I was tipped off to JohnCompanies awhile back by OxDECAFBAD and pulled the trigger on one of their Linux servers. Been steadily working on it and feeling that deep internal satisfaction you get from learning a new system (even if it just a plain ole Red Hat box).

The object is to merge together all the random servers and domains I’ve got scattered around out there and bring them all together – plus free up the poor battered home DSL line that’s been serving up the no-fi.com and chrisbarrus.com domains.

Still doing this with one hand on the O’Reilly books…