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30 blogs in thirty days a failure

OK, so I failed at thirty blogs in thirty days.  However, I am very frustrated with blogger.  At one time I could send pics from my phone and they would show up on my bog.  Now that does not work.  I also have had a ton of issues uploaded pictures at all to blogger.  I believe it has to do with the way that I have blogger set up.  I have all of the files on my own web server (well, dreamhost server) and use blogger for all of the application.  I think I am going to move it all to a new fresh blog at walterunderwood.com/blog.  We will see.

email and the university

Well, as you may know I work at The University of Louisville.  One of the things that my team manages is email servers.  We had someon send a ton of large files today and slow the whole system down.  While it was a real pain for our team, it also showed the vulnerability in the system.  We are using groupwise for our email, and will be migrating to Exchange soon.  I wonder if such a situation will be better or worse for Exchange?  Of course, it will be on all new machines rather than almost five year old ones, so that should help.  Fun with email!!!!

I have learned more about email and email servers in the last few weeks than I ever thought I would. It is very interesting how so many completely different systems and setups work together so that people can send email.  The end user does not realize that one email may touch as many as 20 different servers between sending and recieving.  Fun.

blogging fails. I need to post like 20 times in the next 4 days.

So I need to post 20 times in the next 4 days in order to make my 30 posts in 30 days goals.  I had planned on putting up a bunch of pics of silly stuff, but alas, blogger has failed me.  I can not seem to auto post from my phone anymore, nor can just drop a pic in my widget and have it post.  Booooo.

So the next few days are going to be postingly crazy.  

what is up with blogger

I have been trying to upload pics to blogger for three days and can not get it to work ...  boo...

I am writing thing with the blogger widget on my mac, as I can not seem to get the actuall blogger site to work.

Blogger is slow

It is strange to me that blogger can not seem to update my blog if I use thier own webpage, but if I use a tool / widget on my Mac or on my cell phone, it updates right away.  

Why is that?

Trucks for Gustav

Today we went to Florence Mall in Florence KY. It is about 50 minutes north east of La Grange KY where we live. The interesting thing was the stream of power repair trucks. There were trucks with generators, grills, and pallets of plywood. At least two of which had signs about Gustav, and indicating that they were on their way to Louisiana. It may end up being the largest overreaction about a hurricane, but my wife and I agreed that it has to be. We as a country have failed in Louisiana. When there is a city that sustained such damage and three years later is still in really really bad shape, you would assume that it had to be in some other country. Not here in the US. We would never let that happen. Well we did. We are.

My prayer is that Gustav does little damage, but we use it as the call to finish the job in New Orleans that should have been done. I will not argue that there are parts of New Orleans that never should have been built up in the first place. The opportunity to rebuild a city in a wonderful and fantastic way rarely presents itself. Now it does, and we waste it.

Think of the possibilities that it presents. What if you could have your city wired from the ground up? Can you say fiber link to every house? Efficient air conditioners everywhere? What if you could redesign the way all of the fire hydrants in your town were located? Hmmm. Build schools where they should be rather than where they are. From the ground up. Rebuild ports so that they are secure AND efficient.

Just think of the possibilities. Now write your congressman (woman) and let them kow that we as a country should stop shoving off our responsibility to rebuild New Orleans, and take grasp of the opportunity.

Ethan and the fixed Nintendo DS LIte

Nintendo DS repaired

Ethan and Daniel were given a broken Nintendo DS Lite that had been left in a lost and found.  The top screen was cracked.  Richard my neighbor and I fixed it today.  While it took almost a full month for the $30 screen to get here, the repair worked fine.  There was one point when I realized that I was going to have to solder the speaker wires that I thought I had accepted a job that I could not do.  

We did prevail!  With the help of Rick and of Tammy's fancy magnifying device we got it done.  I ended up taking an old BIC pen and taking the inside little tube out of it, cutting a small slit in the end and using it to wrap up the connection cable to get it though a hole in the hinge.  I was really excited that it actually worked.

Right now as I write this, Ethans' friends and he are playing Mario Cart against each other.  They each have a Nintendo DS Lite, and they are playing wirelessly against each other.  How cool is that?

Very cool.

Walter

gustav

If you are not paying attention to the Hurricane Season you should.  Go look at the info now.  Right now.  This post will still be here when you get back.

OK, so did you notice Gustav?  Predicted to be a cat 3 or 4 and going straight to New Orleans?  Please note that New Orleans is a shell of the city it once was.  It is an embarrassment to our country what was allowed to happen there, and what has not occured since.  Terrible.

keep your attention on Gustav. Pray that it will not occur again.

Walter