Hi, I'm Mick - Welcome to my little corner of the Web. I have had a home page of various forms for many years now. I set up my first home page in 1995 and have had a continuous presence ever since. Mick's Place has undergone many changes and continues to evolve both in content and technology.
Please feel free to explore, comment, and contribute. Again, welcome!
Comcast was up to its old tricks again this morning. According to my server logs they went down about 6:15 CST and left the cable modem in some funky state. Once I restarted it and the firewall machine, we came back up. All seems to be working now. Let me know if you have any problems getting to any of the services here.
Also, I took advantage of this time to update Drupal to version 7.12. This was a bugfix only release.
The nasty storms that came through last night had our power out for several hours. As my UPS's will only keep the servers running for 10-15 minutes, I had to shut them down. I just brought them all back up and hopefully everything will work properly. I have to catch an early flight so I am going to bed as soon as possible. I might have missed something - please let me know if so and I'll try to fix it remotely tomorrow.
Thanks as always for your patience and understanding.
I had a great time going to dinner twice (once last week and then tonight) with my cousin. We had a great couple of visits, and last week they even had to kick us out of the restaurant as they were trying to close up! It was great to catch up on the changes she and Jim are making, and how exciting her new job is. It's crazy that we have to both travel hundreds (thousands in her case!) of miles to get to spend some time together. It was well worth it though. Hopefully we'll cross paths here in the DC area again in the coming months.
Just a quick well-wish out to you all - here's hoping to a joyful and prosperous 2012 for all of us. I've again been slacking with my blog entries here as most of my infrequent updates have ended up on Google Plus or Facebook. I'll try to do better at putting things here first and linking to them outside.
I hadn't really paid attention, but my old install of Blojsom had gotten whacked in a bugged Fedora update a while back and I never got around to fixing it from backups. It's working now and you can get to it from the Old Blog link in the right nav from my blog page. It's pretty entertaining although it's a pain to see older entries in each category. The Blojsom software handled all the nav with the calendar, but since the entries are all 7 or more years old, the calendar isn't useful.
Once again, our friends at MLG&W caused some issues for our domain. It seems we had a fairly nasty, intermittent power event that caused the internet connection to get in some weird, inconsistent state. Antjuan remotely restarted the firewall machine for me about 10 minutes ago and we're now back up and running. All the servers stayed up as the UPS's kept them running.
Sorry for the inconvenience - if anything doesn't seem to be working right, please let me know.
Great...the wheel broke off my rollaboard. This is a traveler's nightmare (probably one of several). I'm not sure if the cabbie broke it when he got my bag out of the trunk or if that was just the final straw. Well, the only good thing is I can get a new, better bag now. I guess I shouldn't complain - this bag has served me well for 10+ years. I just have to lug it home on Friday.
All this traveling is starting to wear me out. Pittsburgh again this week, then back to Reston (DC area) next week. I think I'll just work remote the short week of Thanksgiving and get just a little break. Then it will be back to it. I right now have Dec 22-30 off - I hope that holds up. I've been extended on my current project to the end of January, so more Pittsburgh and DC. Somewhere in there I have to spend a couple of days in Las Vegas for a company leadership meeting.
Oh, well - I'll build up my frequent flyer miles quickly ;-)
