Welcome to mirzu.com

podcasts I'm listening to as of today, suggest some more please

Call to Auction - world of warcraft podcast

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

DubstepFM podcast

The FADER podcast

For Good Reason

Freakanomics Radio

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast

KCRW's Today's Top Tune

Lullabot - Drupal Podcast

Math for Primates

The Nerdist

NPR Car Talk

NPR Wait Wait Don't Tell me

OutDPS!  - World of Warcraft 

P Bear

Savage Love Podcast

Skipper T and the Robot

Stuff you missed in History Class

This American Life

Welcome to Dreamhost

Well after a marathon day of moving stuff over. I'm on the new host - Dreamhost, and I've linked this blog up to my facebook page. . . Will that inspire me to write more? no. But at least now all my non-communications are linked. :P

see you all in 6 months.

Installed Theme and now I hopefully won't be embarased to write

Yawn happy new year.

So my grand plans for working on my own site are in perpetual fail. So instead of waiting for a theme to be created for me, and to for me to cod it I've just installed something that looks reasonably good, and am just going to live with it.

hopefully, now that the site doesn't look all generic I'll be more likely to post more entries here.

If you guys still out there reading this are interested, I post a lot more twitter than I do on here: twitter.com/mirzu

maybe I'll just aggregate that into here while I'm at it.

Yay for free themes!

so close yet so far away

I'm vibrating between relief and total and complete dread when thinking about how much we have to do to finish the car. Hopefully we'll be getting loads of support this weekend, so we can really crank out some more of the work. I could upload some photos, but that would be be time I could also spend working. (ah hell one photo after the break)

Move along now. . .

nothing to see here. Please disregard yesterday's posting.

FAIL.

Application and Inital Design Done

Well the work has started on the next car. The design is ready and our paperwork is in. Below is one of the current renderings and a link to a gallery with more. This is going to be an amazing amount of work, but I believe we can pull it off.

Drupal Upgrade 4.5 > 4.7 > 5.7 > 6.2

Well I finally did the upgrade to the current version of Drupal. I have to say I like the new features already.

For those attempting the upgrade in Debian, it went pretty smoothly. Honestly the hardest part was the transition between 4.5 > 4.7 using Debian packages. After that it was a simple matter of installing the new package pointing apache to the new files and pointing drupal to the old database and running the upgrade.php script. No loss of data, no real problems. Done. Moving on.

Not Burning

It's funny, I didn't think it would be so easy. I really thought I'd be crawling out of my skin and totally out of my mind by now, but I'm happy that I'm not burning this year. Happy I'm not spending the money, happy I'm avoiding the dust, and really looking forward to Labor Day with mine and Lauren's family's hanging out together.

I still get pangs every once in a while, but I'm glad we made the decision to take this year off. Next year. . . I can't wait, that is going to be a year to remember. I think the stars are aligning to really make next year really rock!

Weekend in Avalon

Had a wonderful weekend in Catalina. Long days spent snorkeling and kayaking, and long nights playing poker with the family. All in all it was very relaxing and fun. I probably could have lost some weight if it wasn't for the huge dinners I had every night.

New Mount

2004 Impreza WRX Wagon. Pictures and more tomorrow.