Month: October 2011
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Spinning the wheels
So, no progress on the efforts to restore a sense of balance. Last week was basically a train wreck for me. It wasn’t pretty. So we try again. I have better hopes for this next week, largely because I have every intention of getting to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. I’ll need to, since…
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Weekend Recap
This weekend I took a break from what I hope will become a (reborn) routine and opted to play some video games. Last week I grabbed Bioshock 2 and The Force Unleashed 2 on Amazon and finally had a chance to give them a try this weekend. My (relatively spoiler-free) thoughts on them are below:…
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Recipe: Rice Pilaf
Sunday I had a few friends over and made an insanely awesome dinner with garlic-scented tomato salad, crusty french bread with garlic herb butter, chicken breasts stuffed with feta cheese, artichoke hearts, and roasted red bell pepper, mix greens salad, rice pilaf, and warm apple crisp for dessert. Delicious. I came up with the recipe…
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A Day Long Remembered
After coming over for a beer tonight, a friend of mine sent me a text. “Steve Jobs died.” Impossible. Steve Jobes doesn’t die. He can’t die. Unfortunately, this is not true. It’s sobering to reacquaint ourselves with our own mortality, but Steve is no more. While I was not the first of my friends to…
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September Recap
As I was getting ready for my Fall Bacchanalia on Saturday with a Star Wars marathon (the good trilogy, in its unadulterated original release form), I realized that September’s been a pretty busy month for me. DISCLAIMER: The bottom (right) edge of my camera lens is scratched up from spinning and sliding my phone around…
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Tech Tip: Importing VMs for ESXi
One of the things I love about VMware and virtual machines is the ability to move them between servers with almost no effort. Last week I was working importing some virtual machines to a new host that had been shipped to us, and after uploading the VMs to the datastore and adding the machines to…