David's stuff

Taking Eric's lead, I've rolled out a new web server. The web-server and database server is now a Celeron 2.53Ghz instead of a Pentium-II 400Mhz. Things like the photo gallery should now load much faster. Soon to come, the 400Mhz will replace my Pentium-I 90Mhz.

Tiny.be seems to be offering some very nice free software. They've released 4 open source enterprise management "softwares" as they call them. This includes a project management application, CRM, marketing, and accounting piece of software.

Some books I've been enjoying recently:

In Park City we enjoyed rafting, mountain biking, hiking, and great food. I particularly enjoyed mountain biking and will be anxious to try it again either here or next time we return to the mountains. The downside here is there's no ski lift to carry us up the mountain.

We came home late Wednesday night on a direct flight from Salt Lake City to Raleigh thanks to Delta. The heat in Park City wasn't nearly as bad as here. Luckiy we have air conditioning to help. We're both extremely tired from the trip, the time change, and two very busy days at work for me.

thursday night, I flew to Denver, CO via Houston, TX. The next morning Libby's family (minus Elly), Ethan's girlfriend, Martha, and I then drove from Denver to Park City, UT yesterday. We arrived at Libby's family's home in the evening to find the home at 92 degrees. The family has been considering installing air-conditioning. It does get pretty cool at night, around 60 last night but we had trouble getting the circulation going sufficient for cooling off the upstairs.

Otherwise, we're greatly enjoying the views, company, and time off!

Libby celebrates her first quarter-century on this planet today. We've celebrated by dining on Thai food and playing Boggle. Tonight we learned that: vox, ross, tron, rosh, kay, kays, mew, lido, dole, and bier are all english words according to one of the many sources on dictionary.com. I'd like to thank them for their resourcefulness as they allowed me to get a few more points in the game. Unfortunately, Libby still beat me every round without resorting to making up nearly as many words. Either way, Happy Birthday to my dear wife.

We never made it to the fireworks tonight. One of our fellow rescuers had an incident between her pointer mix and one of her doxie fosters--Chloe. As a result, Libby spent most of the afternoon getting her wounds cared for at one vet, then the emergency vet. She ended up getting 20 staples and 4 drains installed. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time this mix has attacked another small dog. He's going to have to be separated for the forseeable future. I went to north-raleigh to pickup a dog in transit from New Jersey to Greensboro (clearly the lesser of the two tasks). We then went together to pick up Chloe from her surgery. We hope Chloe has a quick recovery.

This evening Libby and I took a walk to fit in some celebration and watched the fireworks set off by our neighbors.

Happy 229'th birthday America. We plan to celebrate by watching the city of Cary lauch small explosives into the sky along accompanied by the North Carolina Symphony

Today we went to the Festival for the Eno and enjoyed the food, vendors, and music. We greatly enjoyed the attitude of the entire festival being eco-friendly including bio-degreadable silverware, compost, and recycling available. We saw a booth for the Democratic party. We didn't see one for the Replublican party. Libby and I figure it just wasn't their crowd.

My boss just changed my title to CTO in place of Lead Developer. And the best part, this change comes with no new responsibility!