I hate technology

I've spent a good 40 minutes trying to get a partnership set up between my Windows Mobile smartphone and PowerBook || Windows XP host. This is so that I can transfer files between them.

I'm giving up for now, and resorting to the low-tech version: media adapter for the SD card.

Why does technology suck so badly?

On random updates

Exercise: failed completely. Was interested in riding Fri/Sat/Sun, but after the debacle of SWMBOs therapy on Friday morning, no dice. Will get out on the bikes this afternoon, and then tomorrow morning as well.

Technology: bad SATA drive. SMART finally told me that it was dead after a couple of hours messing with it. Have yet to investigate a replacement.

House: backyard is coming along. Chasing the Little Man around is a good time to pick crabgrass out of the lawn by hand. It's a little OCD, but it's worth it. Might not even move the back yard this week; summer approacheth and the growth rate is way down.

Plan for today is post-riding in Kearney to replace the plastic faux brick edging around the house w/the black plastic edging wot landscapers use. That'll be a long-standing honey-do that disappears.

Bikes: the Trek is ready for riding, and the hybrids are proving a wise investment. I'm looking forward to when the Little Man and I can head out for a ride together, rather than him looking at me peddling while he chillaxes in the trailer.

Work: Some moderately interesting stuff going on, but it's really just passing the time. I'm feeling very wasted right now, bordering on irrelevant. The thing is, I'll have 50 conversations in a day that use my talents and knowledge, but it's all rear-view mirror facing. Nothing is new, nothing is interesting.

Politics: It remains to be seen whether the President I voted for can make the changes I want. While I count myself as a small-l liberal, in reality it is far more complicated than that. It is with a little schadenfreude that I watch the floundering of the GOP right now, but remain fully aware that regardless of what happens, the conservative yang to the liberal ying will reassert itself. It does make me wonder if there's room in US politics for a third party. It's about time there was a Green Party, in a completely non-granola way. If a party could be formed that strikes the balance between the need for Green and the need for capitalism, that would win votes simply because it would be a palatable alternative.

On holding yourself accountable

After a long discussion with myself about matters that I shouldn't be concerned with, I have come to the conclusion that I have failed in holding myself accountable. It wasn't SWMBO's surgery that stopped me exercising, it was the fact that I allowed the excuse of being tired to trump the need to exercise.

It stops today.

Everyd ay this week, I will do something cardio.

On sighing

"Huckabee told the audience he was disturbed to hear President Barack Obama say during his speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday that one nation shouldn't be exalted over another.
"The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense," Huckabee said. The United States is a "blessed" nation, he said, calling American revolutionaries' defeat of the British empire "a miracle from God's hand.""

http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/huckabee-gingrich-urge-political-engagement-va-beach

Gov Huckabee, Sir, I am not a religious man. I do know that the Kingdom of God surpasses all earthly nations, and the facts of the matter of revolution (taxation, freedom from unwarranted search/seizure) are merely inconvenient?

Such intellectual bankruptcy is exactly what the Republican Party does not need right now. Governor Huckabee, exit stage right.

On a list of things to do

I need to stop by Microcenter for a SATA power cable, and maybe a power brick for a USB external laptop drive.

The first item will let me get the 1TB drive in the ESXi server up and running. Plan is to:

• move the Ubuntu desktop image from the 250GB drive to the 1TB
• Move the VIMA appliance image from the 250GB drive to the 1TB
• Install OpenFiler using virtual disks on both of those drives, and then create a backup volume that is rsynced to and then can be streamed to tape/DVD from there.
• Create iSCSI volumes that can be mounted by each of the systems that support it (PowerBooks and the Ultra5) and use that for filesystem space.