Happy 5th Anniversary to my sister and my bro-in-law. My sister decided (for the two of them) that they would skydive on their 5th anniversary. They invited me along to watch. Their skydive was just a tandem jump for each. I took a lot of pictures with my FSLR and my compact digital camera. I already have the pics off of my camera, but need film developed from SLR. Check out the gallery here.
Update: What’s there is there. I don’t have a negative scanner and the scanner used by Kodak sucks ass. I think I will just retire the SLR since relying on other people to process it results in poor quality.
I’ve recently migrated from VMware to VirtualBox. VMware is a decent virtualization technology and probably one of the most advanced, but I have my reasons for changing. I thought it was great that VirtualBox supported the vmdk virtual disk format from VMware, but I found it best to convert to VirtualBox’s vdi format. Other people are making this change as well, and since I found accurate walkthroughs lacking when searching, I’ll write my own walkthrough here.
I’ve started running an IdleRPG bot. If you don’t know what it is, it’s an IRC bot that basically masters a RPG game that you play by not playing. Sounds Taoist, heh. The premise of the game is to join the channel where the game takes place and register with the bot. Once registered, you literally sit in the channel and do nothing. The bot takes care of everything for you, such as leveling up, questing, and combat. My bot is on IRC server irc.chatcircuit.com in channel #idlerpg. A link to my game info is at the top of this site.
It took a bit of work, but I got everything on the new hardware without a reinstall of the OS. It’s sooo much faster now. Everything should be back online now.
Tomorrow, Thursday, September 11, the site will be going down for upgrades. It will likely be down all weekend as I test hardware and make sure everything works okay.
