Is Jubelale a celebration of Hoptober? Or, is Hoptober just the perfect season for Jubelale? At long last, it’s fall. That is, at long last it feels like summer. Warm days, cool nights. The mornings aren’t crisp yet, but soon. Soon. Busted out a blanket last night (with the window wide open). And, god–what a […]
Diagnose 75% of common causes of computer slow-ness with one short article. If your computer is running slow, it’s likely the result of either adware or a hardware failure. Of the two, it’s far more likely to be adware. Before trying to diagnose and fix the problem, however, your first step should always be to […]
Deer Tick is a band from Texas. This isn’t true, but pretend it is. They’re as redneck as they come–at least in appearance: Wrangler jeans, plaid, well worn t-shirts. Lead singer John McCauley sings with a conspicuous (and new) silver tooth, tattoos, mustache, and a full head of hair. But imagine rednecks who played really […]
Caught Emeralds and Caribou at The Clubhouse last night. Both blew my mind. I’ve been searching for music that fits the my “Phoenix” season in life. I think I’ve found it, with electronic / ambient / noise. Let me preface this by a humble admission that I’m new to these genres, myself. Noise is the […]
I’ve cobbled together a couple scripts to create a handy LAMP (Ubuntu) environment backup script for web servers running multiple virtual hosts. The script dumps each of your MySQL databases to a gzipped file, then backs up each sub-directory in your web root directory (e.g. /var/www) to a separate gzipped tarball with a bash array […]