Posts from ‘April, 2006’

la la update (used CD trading site)

I recently posted about a used CD trading site la la. It’s been a about 11 days since I joined and I’ve sent 9 CDs and received 5. Overall, the website flow works really well. However, 3 of the 5 CDs I received were badly scratched. I can get them to play on my Bang [...]

I don’t want to be a Sys Admin

Back in February I migrated our server over to Lunarpages. It is extremely hard to find reliable information on web hosts but most of their feedback seemed positive. At first, they were great but I’ve lost a lot of sleep over the past few weeks. They were in the process of moving our servers to [...]

Nouveau Flamenco – two takes

First Take On Sunday, we went to see Ottmar Libert (http://www.ottmarliebert.com/) at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City. An Evening of Ottmar Liebert: Solo Guitar and Conversation 7:30 PM, Sunday, April 23, 2006 Fox Theatre, Redwood City Twice named New Age Artist of the Year by Billboard magazine, Ottmar Liebert is both a captivating guitarist [...]

Community Involvement – Elementary School Science Fair

Yesterday morning, my good friend Ray and I helped judge a science fair at Toyon Elementary School in San Jose. It was a lot of fun talking to the children. We primarily judged the projects for children in K, 2nd, and 5th grades. It was encouraging to see how nice and respectful all the children [...]

Servers down yesterday (4-24) – sorry!

From my hosting company: We are experiencing network issues as a result of a power failure at our data center. As the outage occurred only on the floor our servers are housed in, and because power was still being generated to the rest of the building, our backup generators did not identify this as an [...]