• was up sick all night, I didn’t think that alfredo tasted right #

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• my son is becoming a teenager, HELP! #
• I’m sick of our webhost’s slow MSSQL server! I can’t wait for our migration to a new host to be finished. #
• I’ve started using the remember the milk bot, @rtm, and its already saved my bacon #
• I probably should signup for the next Church IT biggest loser competition: http://citrt.org #
• http://www.startrekmovie.com/ - if someone wanted to take me to see it for my birthday (which is next week) I wouldn’t complain #
• http://www.startrekmovie.com/ - even if it is odd numbered #

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• feliz cinco de mayo #
• I just setup @gcal to update my google apps calender through twitter! #

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OK, I’ve been on twitter for a long time, but I’ve only recently started using it regularly.  Last month I went to MinistryTECH and EVERYONE there uses twitter, and it seemed to be one of the most discussed topics.  The reason I didn’t use it before was (1.) I couldn’t get any of my friends to use it and (2.) I didn’t have an affordable data plan on my phone.  My local friends still don’t use twitter, but the CITRT people do.  And as for part two, I’m trying out Boost Mobile’s unlimited plan.  That’s unlimited voice, data, and text for $50/mo.  If it works well, we’ll probably drop our home phone, and I believe we’ll come out ahead, and have unlimited data, etc.

As part of my twitter experiment, I’m trying a twitter plugin for my rarely used blog.  So you should start seeing daily content, which would be an aggregate of my tweets, which by the way are also synched with my Facebook.

Ya, I’m getting all social iterwebs 2.0 finally.

• just bought a blackberry 7520 for 1.25 #
• rt @darthvader: I hesitate to wish anyone a “happy” anything, but… Happy Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you. Huzzah. #
• @ninjagerbils welcome back to the social interwebs 2.0 #
• The new website is coming along. The graphics team is almost done with our new look. Hope to launch by the end of the month. #
• been a long day, I think it’s time to go home now #
• Moms! You could win an iPod Touch for Mother’s Day at http://twittgroups.com/moms from Twitter Groups #moms #

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As of today, Mr. and Mrs. bamed have been married a dozen years.

Happy Anniversary, Dear, I love you!

So right after we installed Windows on our Servers, a hard drive on one of the RAID sets died.  So I replaced it, and a week later the replacement died as well.

This made me think something other than the hard drive was the problem so I ordered a new RAID controller.  However…

We recently moved, and apparently the last time I ordered something from this company was a personal item that I had sent to my home.  I must not have been paying attention when I ordered the card and I had it shipped to the last address I had used, which was my old house that someone else lives in now.  Oops!

Anyway, I managed to contact the new occupants of my old home, and they had received my RAID controller.  FedEx left it on the front doorstep.  I met them yesterday and came in early this morning to install it.

If I weren’t such a genius, sometimes I’d think I was dumb!

This weekend we said goodbye to out Linux domain controller using Samba and OpenLDAP.  We now have two servers running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory controlling our network.  The migration went pretty well except for a failed hard drive in a RAID array, but I had a spare and the backups were working properly, and well, it was in a RAID array so there was no data loss.  Just some minor inconvenience.

Other than that it was just a matter of time to get everything done.  We have four volunteers there to help.  That is if you count Adam as a volunteer.  He’s there often enough I consider him staff, and he does work at the Church, just not in IT.  But he doesn’t get paid to do IT, so technically he’s still a volunteer.  He also stayed later than I did both nights we worked and finished up some things. So I should say:
ADAM, YOU THE MAN!!!

Anyway, in other news, Sam is moving this week.  He’s a friend we play Shadowrun with, but he got laid off from his programming job a couple of weeks ago, and ended up finding a new, better job in Maryland.  So that’s sad.

I love this scene from the IT Crowd.  Moss and Roy let Jen borrow “The Internet” for a speech…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g

And then there’s the speech…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0