On Monday I dropped my bike in a hilarious/embarrassing accident from a stand-still. Yesterday morning I discovered the master cylinder on my front Magura Gustav-M was leaking oil, and after a few pumps the reservoir emptied.

!@$*^&(

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.

I’m a Photoshop user. I have been since my mid-teens, and I always gravitate toward it after running the gambit of options that crop up every few years. I think these days, ACR and the Smart Sharpen filter are the draw.

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.

The recent decision to move to a NoSQL database was coming for a long time. There’s obvious benefits to the schema design for certain scenarios, and I’m betting on them.

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.

avoidwork.com is getting a behind the scenes upgrade by moving to a NoSQL schema powering my PHP5 code. I’ve also refactored the directory structure to be more secure with ‘best practices’ in mind.

Jenz and I went to the new Calypso water park yesterday, which worked out fantastically because it was pretty empty. The line ups were non-existent so we hit every slide and ride we could.

I definitely recommend checking it out.

I decided to stop slacking, and fix a directory permission error on celcius (my server) so WordPress could auto-upgrade. 2 minutes = problem solved.

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

It seems either Apache or WordPress is crashing somewhat when it comes to page redirection; resulting in most links not working. I’ll keep an eye on it.

Yes, it’s Thursday… for you mere mortals! It’s the last day of my work week, because tomorrow I’m going to a water park with Jenz! It’s going to kick ass.