Done yesterday (20111107 Mo)

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.

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