So I took a bit of a break from working on our church website. I’ve been trying to wrestle Joomla into what I want to make the site more useful to our congregation. Unfortunately I ran into a bizarre error on it today when I decided to go back to working on it and log in, I now get an error that I’m not authorized to view the content (as an admin no less!). Anyway, I’m thinking of biting the bullet and coding what I want myself. The two big things I want are the ability for members to submit news postings or articles, and a nice calendar.
Archive for October, 2006
Something to file in the category of “stupid things Robert has done” … dropped my gigabit switch on the power cord for my server, thus knocking the plug loose from the UPS enough to cut power to it. I managed to get through installing an electrical circuit to dedicate to the computers this afternoon only to have trinity go down hard as a result of clumsiness. Cue Alanis!
Well, this one is just a short one. The past two days at work have been pretty productive, so I’ve been feeling good about that. Did get some rather interesting news the other day that I’m basically a salaried person whose pay is calculated hourly (= they don’t pay for extra time). I’m not sure how that works but for what I do it all balances out anyway.
I’m pretty happy at home too these days. I did a little tidying up downstairs in my computer corner so it doesn’t look quite as much like a disaster area. Hopefully we’ll be putting in a dedicated electrical circuit for the computers this weekend since having the computers on the same breaker as the washing machine (with it’s motors) = bad idea. Not sure what else will be done this weekend. Oh yeah… that’s right … I get to go up north and toss firewood into something with wheels to transport it to my parents. Fun fun.
I need to start thinking about what I want for Christmas. I’ve already decided I want something remote control with wheels so I can terrorize the cats! (insert evil grin here) As far a computer gadgets, I’m not sure. I think I could probably use a flash drive for home use (for my housecalls). There are some spendier items that I’d like (Palm TX, LCD monitor), but I am not going to bother putting those on the list.
I’m getting a little irritated with my Internet connection. It dropped out at 2am this morning and didn’t come back reliably until sometime after 9:30 I think. I tried getting it up this morning (the connection, not “other”) and upgraded the firmware, but unfortunately I succeeded in locking myself out of the administration of the router. Yay. Reset that tonight and re-configured it. Don’t have WEP working again but I think I got the other bits going (port forwarding, SNMP, MLA security).
Off to bed … hopefully no dreams about getting my arm ripped off by a shark tonight.
I find this amusing.
Ever have one of those days where you don’t feel productive at the end and you don’t feel motivated enough to do anything about it?
