Almost there....almost there....

I just finished another semester of school.  I came very close to saying I aced it, but unfortunately I was one grade away from that.  That's ok.  I'm in an in between week now.  On Monday my second to last class starts.  It's a…

Just a tv show

Just watched Person of Interest. Most of the time it's easy watching, but this episode was powerful. We'll done. Depressing. I've been watching the West Wing again and find it very inspiring, even if I disagree with many of the ideas. This PoI episode…

Channeling Firefly

A couple of episodes ago on the Walking Dead there was a song that caught my ear. I looked it up and it was Blackbird Song by Lee Dewyze. Could be straight out of Firefly, for all you Verse lovers. Definitely worth the download.…

Updating Plex Media Server

For future reference: Download the 64 bit .deb file sudo dpkg -i plex...deb Replace with the correct file name.  Looks like that's all you have to do.…

School

I've decided to finish up college by end of Summer 2014.  This means taking a bunch of classes.  Good news is that I'm in the home stretch.  Bad news is, it's really time consuming and not always interesting.  I'm currently writing a…

AWS holding up

Made some recommended changes to MySQL and it seems to be behaving better.  We'll see if that continues.…

EC2 Free micro instance is rather hobbled

I keep having issues with the MySQL DB going offline on this free instance.  The server is doing very little but I guess it's enough to crash MySQL frequently.  I might have to make other arrangements.…

Amazon Web Services

As of the last post I have now moved this blog and a couple of others to a free EC2 instance.  As long as I don't get hammered, the performance should be perfectly adequate.  So far, the experience has been quite good.  There are some peculiarities with using…