I Did It!

I found out last night that I passed the exam! Sweet! Not only that, I did it with a very high score. It feels good to have that milestone behind me now and I can focus on the next step.

Work Upon Work

It’s Saturday and our class is over for the day, but I’m still at the office. Why, you ask? Well, it’s like this: I’d like to do some work on our photo backlog [which is still very large, especially since we got our scans back from ScanCafe] and post some pictures to the site. However, [...]

Temporary Insanity?

Many of you might have noticed that there was an outage today… Yes, it was my fault. I was too anxious and didn’t wait the proper amount of time.
Let me ’splain.
For the last year or so, I’ve been using GoDaddy.com as my registrar. Before that, I used a service called easyDNS.com. EasyDNS.com not only was [...]

A Glutton For Punishment

I’m back out in Redmond today [actually, I flew out late Thursday night] so that I could re-take the certification test for the first half of the Directory Ranger program [which, I believe is going to be called "Microsoft Certified Master: Windows Server 2008 Advanced Infrastructure" or some such onerous title]. I think I passed [...]

And It's Faster!

After virtualizing my web server and dedicating a hard drive just for it, I have noticed that it seems to be snappier. Don’t you think so? I mean – look at the photo gallery and tell me what you think; if you notice that is is faster.

Virtually Configured

You may have noticed a short (3 hour) outage tonight… or not. The web server, as you know, was virtualized a couple of weeks ago. However, it was taking up space on my file server – over 250GB of space. So, I took the old hard drive out of the physical web server and installed [...]

When It Rains…

Now that the Fridge is fixed, what should break but the car?
Driving home, Laura noticed some strange problems like the radio/CD player cutting out and the AC shutting off. Worse things happened as the day wore on, so we took it in yesterday. I hope the damage is not too bad.
At least we get a [...]

Dead Fridge and Virtualization

This Sunday, while we had a visitor staying with us, our refrigerator [not really ours, per se - it comes with the house] died a slow, quiet death. We first noticed about lunch time when the ice seemed to be low and the cubes not as hard as usual. This was followed by a series [...]