Journey to the Center

I am a fool. Sometimes I forget that being a techie doesn’t make me uber-technical; it just makes me able to troubleshoot.

Over the holidays, I had several days off from work. I figured that this would be the perfect time to do some upgrading on my web server, especially since I hadn’t really worked on it since I’d installed Fedora Core 2. Yeah, it’s really been that long. They’re up to FC8 now, so I had some serious upgrading to do. And you can’t really skip versions with the way it’s set up. Far more likely to cause problems that way. So I made what backups I could and set to it.
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You gotta love converting from one posting system to another. This process will hopefully be less painful than I’m expecting, but only because I’m expecting it to be purely manual. Time to start looking for conversion software, I guess.

From a practical, and readership, standpoint this means that the archives will slowly be rebuilt. But all new posts from here on out will be in the new system. Any suggestions on plugins for WordPress gratefully accepted.

Found out about this one from some coworkers. Fascinating stuff. They’re trying to mass produce a car that only requires enough energy to compress air in the tank to 4500PSI.
Wiki article
the air car - the official site

I just ordered some EarJams from Griffin. I love my iPod, but finding headphones that aren’t horrible has made me resort to the ones my Dad passed along when he gave me his ancient walkman. These things are so old the foam is rotting off. But they hurt less than the ear buds, especially since I’ve lost the foam covering for them. I’m really hoping that they’ll fit well and make the buds comfortable again, particularly since I wear headphones almost all day long.

Thanks Halsted for the link.