Living the Plan B

There was an outage of the server that hosts this site along with several other sites and sites of Driftless clients.  We suffered about 3 hours of down time today.  The word from the folks at WiredTree (our server provider) about what happened is after the jump.  It appears we suffered no data loss thankfully.  My apologies to anyone hosted with us who’s site was down today.  Unfortunately without spending some pretty significant bucks setting up a high-availability, failover system something like this is always a risk.

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I picked up this Maple Peppercorn Mustard last night at Piggly Wiggly.  I like maple, I like peppercorn, it sounded perfect for the Dagwoodesque sandwich I was preparing to build.

Upon first sample it was really good.  Hit of maple, big hit of peppercorn, mustard on the backend. However upon placing it on my sandwich I found that I was not liking it as much.  The sandwich was pepperoni and roast beef with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles on whole wheat.  I found that it was adding a little too much bitter to the sandwich for some reason.  I think if I had added a little mayo to the sandwich as well that would have helped.

I also think this would be better suited for a straight beef sandwich, grilled burgers perhaps.  Or I saw a suggestion of adding it to a little heavy cream for a cream steak sauce, also sounds grand.

Final verdict 3.5 out of 5 jars.

Returned from a week in Vegas for CES 2010 as well as plain old vacation. Great time was had and the weather was great as well. probably one of the only places in the country that wasn’t frigid. Only downside of the trip was Green Bay lost so I ended the trip down.

I saw nothing mind blowing at CES. Balmer’s keynote was a big meh. Some of the xBox stuff was cool, but #1 Balmer is not Jobs, and #2 Microsoft does not have the sexy products Apple does. I really enjoyed the HigherEdTech Summit. A high point of the show for me, I was able to hear a lot of great ideas and thoughts on the future of Higher Ed as well as some of the technologies that will see penetration into Higher Ed. The show floor seemed to be full of a lot of evolutionary moves. 3D was still a big push and is still not great. I can possibly see 3D gaming catching on as gamers are used to peripherals but people are not going to sit down in droves in their living rooms and put on those glasses.

For the most part I agree with this PC World article, 9 Things I learned at CES.  I am actually a fan of the living room PC, I have one and I find it more powerful than any of the tools out there now, but it is too complicated for the average user and I think it always will be.  Skype built into the TV, Boxee settop box, etc, these have far more utility for the average user.

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Upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress using the built in upgrade tool. Everything seemed to work fine, I know in the past I have had some problems with the built in tool, but appears to have worked fine today.

I hope no one missed this.

I am loving this remix.

Here is a lil video I tossed together. It is also my first test of the Kaltura Wordpress plugin. Music is a cover by Good Luck Jane.

Here is Facebook HD…actually it looks like the embed is not HD.

As Reverend Brown points out, Mac OS X has a VNC client built in.  Directions are simple.

Connect to Server (Apple-K) and load up vnc://hostname

I have found it to be better than the current standalone VNC clients on the Mac, specifically Chicken of the VNC and also Jolly’s VNC.  It’s not perfect but it works well enough.

UPDATE: Malechite has correctly pointed out that OS X’s built in remote desktop system is based on VNC and therefore you can use any standard VNC client to get to your Mac as well.

Good song though. Something Corporate – Straw Dog.  I remember them from my WSUP days.

Things are shaping up nicely for a ridiculously cheap trip. @scottabing got us set up for round trip airfare at like $120pp, inclusive of taxes and fees.  I have three free nights at Main Street Station and from a tip on a forum got the e-mail address of a host at the Four Queens that set us up with two free nights, and then a ridiculously low Saturday night rate as well.  It’s looking like round trip airfare and eight nights lodging is going to come in around $150 per person.  And I thought we did good last year at $350 per person. @Wamzlee just needs to line up the ladies and we are set for a great CES week.