Quick update
I know i haven't blogged as much as I've said, but whatever, its been busy. Wedding planning is well underway though. Go visit http://www.richieandleah.com to get the info. I know its customary to have my New Years Resolutions on here, and I will put them up, but probably not till next month. Have lots of random crap to do this month and feeling a bit down because of the weather or something. Anyhow, happy new year all and I'll make proper blog posting later.
Ok we’re live!
I’ve officially moved off Subtext and onto WordPress. The Gallery has been completed redone, hope everyone likes it. Now that I’m done with that, we can finally talk about Halloween and how exhausting partying all week is ;)
Other than that, Leah and I are engaged now for those not in the know. But frankly, if you didn’t know by now, you probably aren’t reading my blog anyhow heh… Hmm lots of Halloween picture are up from this weekend so check them out. Gotta go and play Rockband 3 now woot!
Ok, I cheated a bit but…
It’s working awesomely now… The gallery I’m using is My PHP DropBox and it is exactly what I want. A simple gallery that will build a photo album based on my directory structure without having to upload files and create albums. The use of Dropbox makes it as easy as drag and dropping for me to organize photos!
Anyhow, the gallery had some theming ability and I cheated by just copying the wordpress raw theme output into the themes the gallery uses. Not very elegant cause I’ll have to update every time I add a new page or a new month rolls over and the archive links changes, but oh well, I’m not going to complain. Hopefully with this last change, I can move my entire blog platform over.
Also, since my original images were so big, I’ve streamlined the process by using ImageConverterPLUS to just batch up everything. Anyhow, its Halloween time… Will write more about this process later!
Freaking WordPress
Dear god, someone help me figure out how to get my gallery themed! I can’t figure it out. The gallery solution is really slick by creating a photo gallery from your dropbox photos album, but no integration with WordPress. I’m sure that it’s really easy to do but I’m just dumb meh!
Migration to Google Apps
So those who know me know how I don’t really trust the cloud, and all that jazz. Now don’t get me wrong, I find things in the cloud useful; Dropbox for example is a great tool; I love syncing all my documents across multiple devices, but I’m not sure how much trust I put in it. That is, until recently. You see, everything is moving to the cloud… the cloud.. I remember during a Microsoft Company meeting that was the buzz word of the year. I even remember thinking how we should make it into a drinking game… anyhow I digress.
In the last year or two, I have worked for two incredible companies that operate predominately in the cloud. So today, October 27th, I have moved my entire mail infrastructure into the cloud with the help of Google Apps, and it was a BREEZE. I couldn’t be more excited to destroy this SBS HyperV image and not ever have to worry about email downtime due to power outages, moving, or any number of ridiculous reasons.
The move itself was simple:
- Goto http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
- Configure my domain
- Verify the domains either through simple http get requests, or in my case, I just used DNS entries
- Configure accounts and off you go!
The downside? There are surprisingly few that you can’t work around, but it is a pain nonetheless. The biggest thing for me was outlook integration. That was my biggest draw to Exchange to start with. How that mail is all happy what about contacts and calendar? Well for all the paying users of the service, google has a great little sync app that does everything for you! But for us lowly people, we have to resort to separate tools.
- Calendar – This is actually quite silly cause Google actually provides a tool to do this! Go here to get it!
- Contacts – Google doesn’t provide this for you but there is a simple free tool called GO Contact Sync which works great
Honestly, I hope Google will just allow anyone to use their sync tool since there are already so many alternatives. Either way, everything is now working and happy thanks to Google Apps and a myriad of tools to sync Outlook to contacts and calendar!
The Blog returns
After a long hiatus, the blog returns. Nothing much is going for now, but stay tuned for the what’s new!
All the new things …
Ok, see the problem is Facebook is around now, and whenever I feel the need to do babble or bitch about something; Facebook updates is the way to go. Anyhow, let's talk about whats going on. Again, we'll go with a bullet point format cause it requires less english, which as we all know, I'm really bad at ;)
- Got a new job at Qualys… I’ll be the Director of Vulnerability Research which lets me do all the cool things I want and more! Really hyped to see what kind of work is going to come out of my group
- Found a new girlfriend. And though I use the word girlfriend, I’m pretty sure she’s the one. I just hope my spidey senses aren’t failing me in my old age.
- Moving. ARGH!?!? This goes right with point one above. Qualys is located in San Francisco (ok, its not in SF, its like 25 miles south of it) … so I have to move. This pains me beyond belief cause I won’t be able to live the way I’m accustomed to. Though, for those that know me, you might think that’s not really a bad thing.
So those are the big 3 things. I’m making a new quarter resolution of blogging in here more cause frankly, all my random thoughts in Facebook updates won’t follow me around forever like this silly little thing that I’ve been doing long before the word “blog” ever existed. Peace.
Not much going on
Just figured I’d drop a new post on here. New flooring is almost complete so I can almost move back into my place which is going to be AWESOME. Already have a bunch of new things I need to go buy. Anyhow, check out the pics of the new floor, as well as from my parents 36th that I mentioned previously.
Looking for a job….
So kicking the job hunting into full affect today. Just a quick post to let everyone know I have updated my resume. Please forward me any leads you might have!
On a separate note, congratulations on my parents 36th anniversary yesterday! The best to both of you…
let’s talk about life…
I haven’t written a useful post for too long. The main reason why is because Lindsey would get pissed off I was airing our business to everyone, and well that’s not a problem anymore cause the first talking point today is Lindsey and I broke up about 2 months ago now… well officially anyhow. We have been on the rocks for the last 3 months before that, but yeah. I actually still have a LOT I want to say about the issue, but I am not going to do that out of respect. That’s it. Else everyone would be getting an earful.
What else is going on… I redid my Gallery so a lot of my previous posts won’t link correctly anymore. The way it was organized previously made sense when there weren’t a lot of pictures in there, but now, there is almost 10 years of photos in there. It’s all organized by date now so peruse to your hearts delight.
And now, to get to the deep and meaningful part of my blog. The other reason I decided to update my blog today was caused I just upgraded to Subtext 2.1 (which is awesome btw) and was going through old blogs. Blogs about Becca, Karyn, Lindsey, random girls in between; And I came to the conclusion none of my plans ever work out. It’s so random. The things I complain about today; about being too old to go out, about wanting to meet new friends, about things I want and need to do, are all the fucking same as they were 4, 5, 6 years ago… Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but one thing is for sure. It is messed up!
Now, on that note, let me find a couple of pictures to insert in here and I’ll call this a post. And again, I am going to promise myself again that I will make a more concerted effort to blog.
-Richie