Learning from Broken Equipment and Minor Mistakes

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A few days ago, I noticed that websites were loading very slowly, particularly in the early stages.  It appeared as if there were problems with the DNS service being provided by my internal storage server.  I tried to SSH into the machine to do some investigation and access the Webmin web interface; neither option worked.  However, I was able to receive replys to pings sent to the server.  I knew something was up, but I would have to dig in to figure out exactly what.

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A Weekend Project

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This weekend, I finished the bulk of the work of a long-standing project I had been pondering. I had all sorts of data lying around on my desktop machine that I didn’t want to lose. Photos, videos, school assignments, and the like. I wanted to be able to back up multiple machines and be able to synchronize my documents, especially while I was using my laptop. Knowing what I wanted to do, and being the IT control freak I am, I chose to build out a home storage appliance. I thought I would share my build process.

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It’s a Small World After All…

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I spend a lot of time talking about technology on this blog, specifically the computerized variety. One of my other favorite interests is Disney. The parks, the man, the magic. While checking out the Disney Parks Blog and their year-in-review posts, I found this amazing video about a day in the life of the Magic Kingdom, as if recreating the day in miniature…

Looking closely, you can see that the people in the video are not repeated or cloned… These were actual photos taken in time-lapse using a technique and lens called tilt-shift photography to create the effect of seeing the landscape as a miniature.

There are a couple of other videos like this on the same site, one detailing a visit to Epcot and one featuring one of the Disney Cruise Line ships.