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Importing users into Bugzilla

Adam March 8, 2010 December 12, 2010Computers and Technology, Software, Work/Professional Bugzilla, import, LDAP, Perl 5

For the past 6 months our Web Application Development work-group has been Bugzilla as our issue tracker with quite a bit of success. While it has its warts, Bugzilla seems like a pretty decent issue-tracking system and is flexible enough to fit into a variety of different work-flows. One very…

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Project 365

Adam January 1, 2010 February 26, 2020Life and Everything Else photography, project 365 1
Comfort for tired soles

Sarah announced today that she was going to do a “365 project” this year: taking a photo every day of the year, both as a journal and to force one’s self to get out and take some pictures. This sounded like a fun idea and one that would be easier…

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Slow Cooking

Adam January 1, 2010 December 12, 2010Life and Everything Else food, video 0

Sarah’s big Christmas present this year was a Cuisinart slow-cooker. We tried it out a few days ago to make “Curried Cream of Chicken Soup” from a recipe in The Silver Palate Cookbook The cooker worked great and the chicken melted off of the bone.

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Bicycle commuting update

Adam December 13, 2009 January 3, 2018Life and Everything Else bicycle commuting, commuting, cycling, outdoors 2

It is now solidly mid-December and I’m still doing my 3-mile (each way) commute by bicycle. I started biking to work for this season around the beginning of April and purchased a dedicated commuting bike on April 21st. Since then I’ve logged 770 miles commuting just about every day; rain,…

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The future of phones: Google Voice, Skype, mobile, and more

Adam November 8, 2009 December 7, 2012Computers and Technology Google, Google Voice, phones, telephony 2

As members of the under-30 club, Sarah and I have come into adulthood in the age of mobile phones. I got my first cell phone right after college and Sarah has had hers since she was 14; neither of us has ever had a land-line of our own. While the…

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Hinesburg Town Forest

Adam September 13, 2009 December 12, 2010Life and Everything Else cycling, GIS/GPS, mountain biking, outdoors 0

Today Spencer and I had a great rainy day mountain bike ride in the Hinesburg Town Forest. The blue line is our GPS track, the purple are the trails (provided by LocalMotion.com). View Larger Map It was a bit damp and cloudy, but the trails weren’t too muddy the woods…

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High-availability Drupal — File-handling

Adam September 9, 2009 December 12, 2010Computers and Technology, Work/Professional Drupal, Linux, PHP 2

One of the requirements in the migration of our web sites to Drupal is that we create a robust and redundant platform that can stay running or degrade gracefully when hardware or software problems inevitably arise. While our sites get heavy use from our communities and the public, our traffic…

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24 Hours of Great Glen

Adam August 15, 2009 December 12, 2010Life and Everything Else 24 Hours of Great Glen, cycling, mountain biking, outdoors, racing 0

This past weekend we headed to the White Mountains of New Hampshire for the 24 Hours of Great Glen mountain bike relay race. I had the pleasure of riding on a 5-person team with Spencer Taylor, Serena Taylor, Steffie Gould, and Simon Bird. Sarah and Celia filled in as our…

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First Night Mountain Ride (and Mini-Review of the CygoLite MityCross)

Adam July 31, 2009 December 12, 2010Life and Everything Else cycling, mountain biking, outdoors, reviews 0

In preparation for the 24 Hours of Great Glen mountain bike race next weekend I purchased a CygoLight MityCross 350-Lumen LED headlight (on sale for $170). It arrived on the FEDEX truck yesterday and I took it out for this evening (9-10:30pm) for my first-ever night mountain-ride. Having only ridden…

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Time Machine Backups For The Moderately Paranoid

Adam July 29, 2009 December 12, 2010Computers and Technology Apple, backups, Time Machine 0

I have recently reworked by computer backup strategy to ensure a high degree of reliability by backing my Mac laptop to two drives in two locations using Time Machine. These backups are encrypted as well to allow me to store them in non-ultra-secure locations while not increasing my exposure to…

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