California road-trip 2013: Day 6, local playgrounds again
We tour several playgrounds when we are here. After the morning jaunt at the Dinosaur Caves, we came home for a spontaneous outbreak of “family band”. That’s right – grab an instrument and jam! We…
California road-trip 2013: Day 5, part-time residents again
We’re off to do the things we usually do as part-time residents of Shell Beach. Hit the local coffee shop, and go to Dinosaur Caves Park to play in the morning. After coming home for a break, we hit New Frontiers Market to get our…
California road-trip 2013: Day 4, are we there yet ?
Took the road west out of Tracy, CA this morning, and drove through this neat windmill farm on the way to the Bay Area. We took route 505 west, and then went down south past Gilroy, heading for Salinas, and the 101 route south. We’d…
California road-trip 2013: Day 3, travel in theory, and in practice
Left Yreka, CA in full sun this morning, with kids very eager to reach destination. We had lots of discussion today about how far the trip was in miles, and how long that would take. Are we there yet ? Many teachable moments along the…
California road-trip 2013 : Day 2, many Oregon miles
Was kind of nice to be pulling out of East Vancouver this morning, taking a different route south over the Columbia River than in the past. We were on the 205 southbound, so headed through a different stretch of freeway than usual. Soon it was…
California road-trip 2013 : Day 1, south, north, south
Just spent a week in Austin, Texas on a business trip, that I might also describe as a teaching and learning trip. I was down at SailPoint, learning all about their enterprise identity management product called IdentityIQ. That whole trip deserves a blog of it’s…
Hangin at the beach
Long weekend, sunshine, and sand. Here we are at the beach, making like it is summertime. Ok, so more like spring-time in BC, and it is a hot day. And, while I was down at the beach, I posted this entry using the WP app…
WordCamp 2013 notes
I attended WordCamp 2013 (Victoria, BC) this past weekend, my first time at the event. As a WordPress enthusiast, I was looking forward to meeting some like-minded folks, to network, and learn some techie stuff about WordPress. I really enjoyed the Experts Panel which was…
getting wpa2 wifi going on Acer Netbook with Linux
I’d like to issue thanks to everyone in the world who has posted anything online that relates to getting an Acer Aspire One Netbook, running any Linux distro, connected to an enterprise WPA2 wireless segment. Turns out your mileage may vary, depending on if you…
ubuntu cisco vpn linux client
Might as well throw a few more keywords onto the pile for completing a few more searches. Had to re-install the VPN client today on the Linux box, and it almost works first time. There is quite a good tip here on setting up the…
2 step OAuth app registration process
Decided to upgrade to Echofon Pro Twitter app for iPhone. Why not, only $4.99 and is one of the most-used apps on my device. To authorize the app to access your Twitter timeline, you: authenticate to Twitter with your account retrieve a one-time PIN code…
saturday night mix
Locked into this really sweet mix by Lemonade on the XLR8R podcast series tonight. A great find, while out walking the dog. I was searching iTunes for “rock podcast” and came up with this great blend of electronic music styles which deserves another play or…