Done yesterday (20111107 Mo)

[mdlbear]

It seems to have been a busy day at work, mostly spent on monitoring software IIRC. Oh, and dealing with a server that had run out of disk. Turns out that was due to a 5GB (!) nohup.out file from a daemon that should have been started with its output going to /dev/null. According to the logs, activemq generated 500MB of logging output in five minutes flat.

Apart from that bit of excitement, it was a quiet day. I did take a walk, but only a mile because my right knee was still bothering me. Still is, for that matter. Growf. And I left my alarm off and slept until 8am. I guess I needed the sleep, and going to bed at 1am the day after the time change certainly couldn't have helped, but grump anyway.

On the way home I stopped at Guitar Showcase and bought a Kyser classical capo, which is designed for guitars with flat fretboards. Like Plink. Duh. I can now put the capo on without having to retune. And because it's designed for wider fretboards, I had room to cut a notch so that I can get a "drop E" by shifting it down a quarter of an inch. Go me!

I also finished the process of validating my accounts for online transfers, and moved $2000 (the daily limit) from my savings account to my credit union. Alliance's online banking site seems pretty annoying compared to Union Bank; I'm not planning to shift everything just yet. (And see Why Bank Transfer Day actually helped banks - CSMonitor.com.) But symbolism is important -- $4G isn't going to affect the megabanks' bottom line much either way, but it's going to get people's attention. In the long run, consumers are moving to credit unions in droves.

In other links we now have Google+ Pages, which basically let you make a G+ account with any name you want. Haven't started that process yet.

1107 Mo
  * up 8; W=194.4; drugs, nose, exercise, light
    % Left my alarm off; I evidently needed the sleep.  But grump anyway.
  * walk:  ~1mi to baby my right knee.  Great weather, though.
    Since the knee still hurts, this was probably a wise choice, even though
    it didn't bother me during the actual walk.
  = stats in /mm/audio -- kind of impressive
      tracks:  12896  find /mm/audio \( -name *.mp3 -o -name *.ogg \) -print
      albums:   1234  ls -d /mm/audio/*/*
      artists:   453  ls -d /mm/audio/*
  * buy: lunch fixings at TJ on the way home
  $ HX:  buy:  a Kyser capo suitable for Plink's flat fingerboard
    The classical appears to be what I want.  wider, but at least flat.
    -Could- use the extra width to add a notch for Drop E! -> total win!
  * Bank Transfer Day - $2000 (daily limit) from savings to share account
    Alliance's online banking site is very annoying.
  @ Republic Wireless Officially Unveils $19/Month Service: Unlimited
    Everything, No Contracts | TechCrunch 
  @ Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about
    Basically G+ with non-human names.  Hmm.  Sounds useful, perhaps.
  @ Why Bank Transfer Day actually helped banks - CSMonitor.com (gmcdavid) 
      People are going to be moving to credit unions, and that’s good for them
    because they’re going to have lower fees, they’re going to have better
    service, they’re going to have the feeling that they are investing in
    their community. And then the banks are going to be better off because
    they are getting rid of their least-profitable or not profitable clients.  
  * some work on Makefile, but not as much as hoped.
  * started heading for bed ~11pm.