I really haven’t been updating this blog as much as I should. I promise I’ll work on it. I was working with some files on a server at work this week and ran into this rather odd time estimate. I didn’t really want to wait for almost 1500 days so I let it run overnight. [...]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
17 Apr
Tornado
Yesterday afternoon we had a rather unexpected visitor. A large tornado touched down about two miles from home and moved quickly past. It hit Southeast Raleigh and then moved on to the northeast. The tornado was so close that I could hear it out on the front porch. That was not a sound I ever [...]
7 Apr
WordPress 5k
In honor of the WordPress 5k that will be taking place this weekend I gathered several of the Conference Staff together for our own event. We met up at the end of the day yesterday and completed our own informal 5k race. Some ran and some walked (including me) but we all finished and had [...]
1 Apr
Walking With WordPress
The company that produces WordPress (Automattic) is hosting a Worldwide 5k. With 80 employees living in 62 cities it is very difficult to put together a group event. To get all of their employees moving on the same day they decided to challenge everyone to run, walk, swim or bike 3.1 miles on the same [...]
8 Jun
Day Two of Annual Conference
We have spent the last two days working to set up the technology infrastructure for our 2010 Annual Conference. After this initial work is complete I spend the rest of the week sitting in the back waiting for something to break. I also help manage the live video stream and any miscellaneous work that needs [...]
6 Jun
Building Dedication Ceremony
Today people from all over our conference met to dedicate our new facility. It was good to see some old friends and faces that I don’t usually get to see. I will probably see all of these people again next week at our annual conference but it was good for now to catch up. We [...]
10 Aug
Moonbow
This is an amazing shot of a moonbow over the old water tower in Downtown Raleigh. H/T: Goodnight, Raleigh
