Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented jodimuse!!! Have a great one!!

Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... also to linda_muireall!! Have a great one!

... and if you're relying on the LJ portal to tell you about today's birthdays on your friends list, it's broken. The front page seems to be more reliable. I'm sure it's getting more attention because it's not customizable, meaning free users can't block the ads. Typical 6A.

Impressive video clips

I don't normally post links to video clips, but these (all found on gizmodo.com) are exceptional:

Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Goes On and On, Does Nothing

As advertised. The most impressive I've seen -- must have taken days to set up.

Video of the Motion-Sensing Wave LED Coffee Table in Action

Surely $2500 isn't too much to pay for something this beautiful, especially when you realize it's also a cat toy...

Renault's Auto Ballet of Destruction

Slow-motion car ads are a dime a dozen, but how often do you see one designed to show off the fact that your cars are top-rated in a crash test? The finale is, um..., impressive.

Another 15 minutes in cyberspace

This is basically an update of this post where I explain my plan for re-arranging the fileserver to bring sanity to my backups.

The major change comes about from noticing that /vv/srv already has a fair amount of stuff in it that doesn't need to be backed up, and isn't worth moving. In particular, it has the mail spool, the news spool, and the Debian mirror. Ok then.

So the local collection of websites and other things that I might otherwise have moved into /vv/srv now goes into /vv/share, which makes more sense anyway because it's mostly the kind of stuff that Microsoft and Apple put into their "sharing" control panel applet -- web server and file server data.

It's an open question, of course, whether personal websites like chaoswolf.org and steve.savitzky.net belong in /vv/share or /vv/users. At the moment, it doesn't matter: they're both in the same partition, and both get backed up and archived in the same way.

So the project for this week is to actually, like, move the data. It's a little more work than it looks at first glance, because I also have to make the same set of moves on the backup drive in order to keep from making duplicate copies of tens of gigabytes of audio. And with anything moving out of my home directory, I also have to move the CVS repository tree as well. The reason for doing it now, apart from getting it over and done with at last, is to get it into the monthly backup snapshot on Sunday morning.

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Definitely overdid it on the exercise over the weekend. I'm sore in places I didn't realize I had muscles. Or maybe they're tendons. Not to mention muscles I know damned well I have, but that haven't hurt since the little bit of weight training I did back in college. Not fun.

Managed about ten minutes of walking today at lunchtime. Could have done a little more, but I was running late between meetings. Maybe just as well.