This journal is no longer updated regularly. I've relocated to another location.

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 It's quite late here, I don't know why I am still awake....

Worked on the movie rental application some more today. We've got a new feature going which shows the customers rental history. Pretty easy to create. Did a couple bug fixes and stuff. Brought out the AR-15 today, that was awesome, I love it so much.

Also called Apple back in Burlington, MA. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be working there because they don't offer full time specialist jobs at the moment, and that's the only openings they've got at the moment. Oh well, maybe something else will come up.

I've added 2 new modules to SceneJournal so that I can crosspost to both DeathNote and Scribbld...tested and working. I'm pretty psyched to move to SceneJournal as my main. Although, I'm not too happy with the amount of themes offered. Oh well...

Tomorrow, not much is happening. Probably going to work on the movie rental application some. I think Morgan and I have agreed that this movie application is the last of our ventures into geekery. We'll be cutting back on a lot of it, so we can focus on other things going on in our lives. Scribbld, SceneJournal, DeathNote will continue to run, but not much work will be done on them. As mentioned we'll continue to support them as best we can and with what time we have but since they're not really paying jobs, not much effort will be put into them. Of course they'll run! How else can we document our lives and read about yours! :)

Ok, it's like 3am. I should probably get some sleep so I can wake up at a semi-decent hour tomorrow :) I really want to buckle down and study Japanese at some point.

 Wow, it's been a little crazy here! I've probably gotten about 3 hours of sleep in the last 3 days or so. Been dealing with server/hardware issues like crazy! I'm am almost at the point where if there's any sign of lightning or thunderstorms that I'm just going to shutdown all the servers and network gear. It totally sucks, but it's what I have to deal with now since we're really not setup to handle such things. I do wish I had all this stuff in a nice fancy data center. Unfortunately, I'm just a poor, struggling server/network administrator with not enough funds to purchase other equipment to protect what we've got, so it'll have to do...

Anyways, basically, we lost one hard drive and 2 power supply units. We need to purchase a new internal and external drive for one of the servers, and I'll be hopefully getting new PSUs under warranty (cross your fingers). The two new hard drives will probably run about $250 total which isn't too bad, I just don't have the money for it at the moment.

Let's see, I'll be stopping my personal use of Scribbld soon. I say this because I'm likely going to be starting a new chapter in my life, about 2,000 miles away from where I live now. It's all really exciting, nothing is 100% final, but I am really looking forward to it. I'll obviously leak out more details an information as things get finalized. Either way, I plan on switching to SceneJournal.net which is my first journaling site/service that I created back in 2004. We've just re-purchased the domain and rebuilt it using the Dreamwidth code-base. It was kind of a tough decision because while the LiveJournal code-base has always been there for us and all, and includes the S1 and S2 (many more at least) theme engines, the Dreamwidth code-base is really on the front of getting things fixed and creating some new cool features. I do not plan on open SJ to the public, it's really just intended to be used by me and some close friends, although invite codes are available through purchase. I don't see many people purchasing an account through. Scribbld & DeathNote will remain as is, and we'll continue supporting them as we have :)

Tonight I plan on watching some Japanese movies, eating some pizza and passing out! :) I hope everyone has had a really nice weekend!! :) Today was my Mom's and my friend, Bethany's birthdays. We had a nice little party at Bethany's last night, good times.

It's like 2:30am here, but for anyone wondering, DeathNote is offline for the moment. The hard drive in the server died. Fortunately, all the web content and databases are backed up so there should be 0 data loss. Rather then work on rebuilding the machine right now, I'll be going to bed and waking up earlyish to work on it. I'd rather get it done in the AM since I'll be more focused and ready to work on it, rather then half asleep.

I'll also be looking into the power situation in the server room, I have a feeling we're not getting enough, so there's going to be some downtime for all servers and services tomorrow starting around 9am or so. It could last as long as 6-12 hours. I'll be posting this information on system  as well.