More snow? Ugh!

Way to make me feel old, Spotify. #ThrowbackThursday music today is from when I was in high school and beginning of undergrad.

Wordpress sent me my Jetpack stats email for 2014. Here’s what they said:

• Post with Most Views in one Day 2014:  Using Digikam from the Point of View of a Lightroom User (10 Sept - 216 views)
• 76 New Posts
• 13 day streak - best streak
• Day of week with most posts? Wednesday (15 posts)
• Top 5 Posts: 1. Using Digikam from the Point of View of a Lightroom User 2. Visiting Disney with a 2 year old 3. Virtualbox vs KVM 4. Teenagers, Sex, School Sex Ed, and The Church 5. Leaving Crunchbang for Lubuntu
• Top referrers: lifehacker.com, distrowatch.com, popehat.com, wordpress.org, and facebook.com

I’ve been working with my host to try and figure out why my relatively low traffic site has been having issues. So I’ve rejiggered WP Super CACHE to work well on the site and I’m using Cloudfare on most, if not all, of my Wordpress blogs. Yet I’m still getting some periods of time where the site’s offline. So, after many years I’m getting rid of Sociable and YARPP (which produces related posts). YARPP, in particular, if often called out as a plugin that requires a lot of resources. Here’s how things looked before I changed it:

One Year Ago Today: Politics: Illicit Acquisition of Game of Thrones in Australia and the Death of CISPA

Five Years Ago Today: I discuss my 365 Project.

I forgot the September calendar!  (Whoops!)  Here’s the October calendar.  Click on the image for your monitor’s resolution and then set it as your desktop.

There were a few things we were excited about being able to do once we had a house - do laundry without sharing the machines, get away from noisy wall/ceiling neighbors, BBQ in our yard, and own bicycles.  Being extremely clean, we were unable to own bikes at the apartment because we had nowhere to store them.  Last Sunday we finally got around to buying some bikes.  After getting them home to tune them up and get the tires filled with air, we contemplated where we should go for our first ride.  Mind you, this would be our first bike ride in at least 3-4 years.  Insanely, I suggested the BWI airport loop trail.  My main reason:  I knew where it was and we had run on it before.  We had never run more than 2.5 miles of the trail, but we had been there and were familiar with it.  So we set off on the trail.  We didn’t know it yet, but it looked like this:

Hey Everyone! Yesterday my server died. I finally bit the bucket and rented a VPS. Sadly this means that I am no longer hosting my own site on my own personal server. However, hopefully this will translate to greater reliability for you guys. You no longer have to go through my POS home router and crappy comcast upload speeds. So I hope it’s a better, faster experience for you guys now. It’s great to be back!!!

You know who you are.  I just didn’t want to give identity theives more info.

On graduation from Cornell!

Although, since you’ve done a summer job every summer, like me, you probably won’t notice that you’ve graduated until winter comes around and you don’t get a winter break.