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Sunday, 04 January 2009 17:11 |
quiet this morning. LB asked me after class if I felt like a dentist because I'd done so much pulling. Maybe they just weren't interested, maybe they were worn out from the week, maybe I didn't prepare something interesting. Who knows? I thought it was interesting. Last night, SU and I watched a movie called To End All Wars, a really good WWII flick about allied POW's in Burma. It was actually the second time we watched it, which is rare for us, but the spiritual and moral themes underpinning it are very thought provoking. We could watch it again someday. Decided to play with the 55mm f2.8 again this afternoon. Couple of interesting pics. This is the inside of a tulip:
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Friday, 02 January 2009 23:54 |
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Man, that is a long, long time. And it belongs to these three guys:
Made an improntu, short notice drive over to the homeland today. Homeland as in Louisiana, home of awesome food, great music and my family roots. And those three gents would be U1 (84), Pop (82) and U2 (74 and no relation to Bono  ).
Arrived in the big city of Opelousas at lunch time (did you expect less?) and had an awesome lunch at Swallows. Not really sure how to spell that, something like Soileaux but pronounced swallows. Works for me, especially when you taste their hen and sausage gumbo. To die for. Or their shrimp PoBoy, heaven in a bun. Gosh, how do they make bread that good?
Also went by to visit GU1, otherwise known as Uncle Earl. Turns out we arrived on his 94th birthday! How's that for impromtu timing?
Sittin' in the hotel now, surfing and watching the news. Which is interesting because I never watch the news. Probably just going to stay in and not venture out into the wilds tonight, then head over to my favorite country sausage place in the morning before taking the backroads home. Only thing missing is SU, she didn't think the ride would be good for her back.
All in all, not bad day!
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Thursday, 01 January 2009 16:56 |
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partier any longer. Spent last night, New Years Eve, at home with SU and 2. We had dinner and watched a couple of movies and that was it!
One of the movies was a really lame one, After the Silence. No idea what possessed me to put that in my Netflix movie but as 2 would say, that was a classic Lifetime Channel movie. Really, really lame chick flick. After that one was over, I really wanted to hit the rack but 2 wanted us to stay up since it was New Years Eve after all.
So, we decided to check Redbox online and see if anything stood out. First screen was Dark Knight, the Batman movie in which Heath Ledger plays the Joker. SU and 2 headed down to the Redbox vending machine and off we went. Great movie. Really good acting by Ledger, as noted in all of the reviews. The movie itself was a decent Batman flick but with Ledger's performance, it will be a classic.
Earlier in the afternoon, I drove around in the truck (basically to warm up after the ride home on the bike) and snapped a few pictures. I sorta like this one:
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 18:38 |
2009.
Its hard to look back on an entire year because most of what is in a person's mind is what has happened recently. Just the way it is I guess. So, with that in mind, I'm glad to see 2008 go away.
As I look back, it really wasn't all that bad. 1 and 2 grew up a little (a lot), Hero became more of a family member and SU and I continued to grow closer. Pop found someone to share his life with, the church completed a major expansion and our home survived Ike fairly well, all things considered.
So, I shouldn't complain. And I won't.
I'll just say...Happy New Year!
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:57 |
on BigJolly lately has been treated to a different look almost daily it seems. This is because I've been trying to improve load times. The more multimedia and graphics that I website has, the slower it loads. Duh.
But there is a lot more to it than that. Background scripts take a lot of time to load, especially some of the java based ones. The quantity of small images affect load time. Compression and caching affect load time. All in all, it's been interesting.
The current look is very fast, comparatively speaking. I could drop the video and get about a 30% throughput increase but the footprint is already so small that I don't think I will. Obviously this mostly affects dialup users but even broadband users will click away if it takes too long to load.
Still using Joomla!, which is now at version 1.5.8. I changed servers from a VPS hosted solution in California to a dedicated one in Chicago. Huge increase in throughput but it did take some time to set up correctly. I'm using CentOS 5.2 on that server because it is very, very stable. I have another server that I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit on. There is a good throughput increase with the 64-bit system but it isn't quite as stable.
I've got all kinds of systems running now. In addition to the two servers and the VPS (also running CentOS), I have a laptop running Ubuntu Ultimate 2.0 64-bit, a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit, my home destop running Windows Vista, another desktop running Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit and this machine, a powerful machine with an Intel quad-core running Fedora 10 with virtual machines of WinXP, Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 8.1, SUSE 11.1 and Linux Mint.
Maybe someday, I'll know what I'm doing!
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