Nerhood Weblog

Here is a great video that Fern forwarded to me. It is amazing how closely this guy nails the trials of bedtime.

According to Wikipedia a sparkline is a
“small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images … Whereas the typical chart is designed to show as much data as possible, and is set off from the flow of text, sparklines are intended to be succinct, memorable, and located where they are discussed. [...]

Well after almost a week of being offline, I’m back. Sorry for the unannounced downtime, but I need to totally upgrade my sever and it has taken awhile to get things back on line. I think most everything is working (I still need to fix some things with the gallery, but the pictures are now [...]

I finally did, I finally ran 100 miles. I completed my 100th mile on Tuesday. I wish I had gotten to this mark sooner, but hey better late than never. It took my 37 runs with and average distance of 2.7 miles and and average pace of 10′04″ minutes per mile.
Here’s to the next 100.

Supposedly that is what I am, a Supreme Nerd God. At least according the NerdTests.com Here is how I rated:
Overall, you scored as follows:

3% scored higher (more nerdy),
0% scored the same, and
97% scored lower (less nerdy).
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
No I [...]

I have only one thing to say about this product, “How did I ever live without it”. If you manage more than one Microsoft Windows Server then you definitely need to be using SB EventLog Monitor.
So what does SB EventLog Monitor do that is so great, it collects, collates, and reports via a web interface [...]

If you are anything like me you probably have little to no documentation on your servers. Probably it is because you don’t have the time or the personal to perform the tedious (and boring) work required; you know it is important, but other things seem to take priority. Well, you no longer have any excuse [...]

While browsing through the depths of Sourceforge I ran across a number of different software packages that really caught my attention. I will begin looking at them in more depth over the next couple of days. I hope to write some reviews of the packages. If you’ve used any of the following software packages I’d [...]

Guess who took home 1st Place for her grade level. Ellie did! She did a great job and worked really hard putting it all together. Ellie and Fern have been working on it for the last two months, usually a couple of nights each week. Ellie thought up the experiment (making gas with wet and [...]

On Wednesday, Ellie had her first experience running. I’ve been running for a while now, and Ellie has always seemed interested in what I was doing. So I recently offered the chance to go with me. On Wednesday night she took the challenge. We had a great time, we started off with some stretching, then [...]

So you’re upgrading your server and you need to either recreate all you network shares or you’ve moved data to another drive and you want to reshare your data. With a few simple commands and a little bit of excel you can quickly make this happen.
Net Shares Command
The first thing you need to do is [...]

Time traveling via music is an amazing experience. I’ve been meaning to post about this for over a month now, but never seem to have the time.
Fern and the girls had left the night before for a girls trip back home to visit family and now it was nearing the end of the work [...]

I have recently become addicted to this online ski jumping game called Trysil Twintip. The background music is a little annoying after the 50th time.
Right now my highest score is 386,632. I’ve seen someone with scores over 800K. I don’t know how he does it. Anyway I highly recommend that you check it [...]

One of the great things about NetApp is that you can actually run fully functional Data OnTap Simulator of their storage appliances on any UNIX machine. It is a great way to test their product suite and demo up solutions before deploying to your production environment. I do have one minor gripe that is that [...]

I ran across this great video titled “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.” by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University that presents the concept of Web 2.0 in a very interesting and informative way.