I’m enjoying this weekly event.

Once I have that certificate showcasing my awesomeness, I’ll either toss away the WordPress install or wrap it in aFrame.

On the subject of work, it’s been going well.

I’m trying to focus on one ‘hobby’ at a time to get everything sorted out and back on track (ie reef, mountain bikes, programming, etc); it’s quite the time requirement. So far, last weekend I addressed a lot of problems in my reef and it should be on track to healthy living until we move out next year. My bikes aren’t going to be as easy to fix, but I can swap the busted Shimano hub on my hard tail for one without ruined bearings (still riding it, it just doesn’t spin freely [aka my legs are burnt when I get to work, or home from it]).

That really just leaves a few loose ends of programming projects to sort out, and photography. Balancing photography with day to day life has forced me to realize you can’t do everything, or even hope to accomplish everything on a sliding time scale. I need to start scheduling workshops for myself, just to make sure I shoot & process (aka Photoshop Thursdays!).

It’s online, and empty at the moment. I need to organize my projects into it’s directory structure, after I work out my authentication model.

I’m pretty sure my reef hardware is set for years (not counting the aquarium, which I want to replace when we move).

Keeping myself busy is turning out to be too easy, thank god Jenz makes me go outside on weekends!

No data was lost, we just experienced a little downtime.

The first things I encrypted was the client area (project manager) and a brand new webmail.

I went for a walk with Jenz along the Rideau Canal and eventually into a Turkish festival that was happening in Confederation Park.

!@$*^&(

I’ve basically retired my bike for the season with that accident. New Gustav-M’s are going to cost me a pretty penny (>$600 easily after shipping + tax), so I’ve snatched my Azonic Fiend back from Jenz because she has a foot problem that’s limiting her riding ability and I need one of my bikes to enjoy summer properly.

I tuned my fork (Z.1 SL with ‘freeride steel’ steerer!) for my weight and ride style quickly last night after I found the manual on Marzocchi’s website. The front rotor or pad had some gunt on it that has created an annoying glaze; which I’m going to try to burn off before the weekend; when I’m expecting an out of town friend to visit for a ride on a local trail system.

I love this bike. I hand picked every component and assembled it myself. It’s awesome.

The new database behind a PHP5 interface.

NoRel design using Views on a MyISAM table. Pure speed.

A rule table to apply bit permissions to entities. The entity.owner value comes from another db/service (openid style, decoupled ’cause it should be). When creating a new entity if the owner is not null (ie, not a system entity) a perm of 4 (read/write/delete) is applied, otherwise only 1 (read) is set via trg_ins. A cascade delete is handled by trg_del.

Views are used to create categories, based on an entity.parent value of 0. In theory this is both the navigation and primary content channels.

Groups are possible via the same auth service, so this is basically gen 1 of Spiral. That version will rely on Doctrine ORM and have a more robust dashboard compared to avoidwork.com.

Regardless, these applications don’t run in Linux which caused me to jump between Windows and Mint for two weekends. Who wants to do that? It’s boring, and takes up hours even if you have a simple drag’n'drop recovery protocol (which I do). Sure, you can dual boot but why should I? That’s a UX failure and I just don’t want to be “in Windows” anymore.

VirtualBox came to the rescue with it’s awesome “seamless” mode. I simply put the Windows taskbar on auto-hide at the bottom, and keep my Mint panel visible across the top (personal preference), and Photoshop appears to be running in Linux!

OSX has had this for a few years with Fusion; someone forgot to send out the memo that it was possible in Linux.

I was so quick to create the code base to allow me to use the new schema that I forgot I was missing the Authentication service on the secure application gateway I launched a few weeks ago.

Considering it’s close to midnight, I’m going to finish up tomorrow or later this week depending if the sun comes out tomorrow.

I definitely recommend checking it out.

Jenz and I checked out the new Smoke’s Poutinerie near our place on Dalhousie. It’s awesome, you should go get some poutine!