New Meds

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Mar 312009
 

We’ve axed the Adderall, when we started moving me up into the area of actual theraputic doses, I started having a whole series of bleah sideaffects including nausea, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, light-headedness, anxious tummy, and all this was distracting enough it was hard to tell if I was getting any positive affect from it. Now we are playing with Strattera I started with a standard low dose on Sunday, and I’ll move into a higher dose next week. This is a newer – non-stimulant type of ADD drug. And the affects are suppossed to be gradual and last all [...]

Who watched the watchmen?

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Mar 312009
 

We did! I really liked this movie, but I think I can see where some people’s complaints came from. Imho the problem wasn’t with the movie, but with the audiences, and what they expect when they see a “comic book” movie or a “superhero” movie. Compared to the movie we usually get when there are costumed crime fighters, this was a very different animal. Much more oriented towards the character’s motivations and navigating moral grey areas. I did not read the graphic before seeing the movie, I wanted to be able to judge the movie on its own merits. So [...]

Quote of the Day

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Mar 272009
 

“No single theology holds the monopoly on faith-based douchebaggery.” – Franklin Habit

Ya know what sucks?

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Mar 112009
 

When it doesn’t do what you need it to do, because its working perfectly. And to make it do what you need it to do, you have to break it. Anyone know enough about VPN through windows servers to be willing and able to help me break mine?

So more weekend details

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Mar 102009
 

This weekend I rolled out a huge upgrade to Brella’s servers. We setup a windows small business server, a new huge fileserver as well as adding a whole new rack, a new switch, a new router, and an additional ISP. Along the way there were a lot of hurdles. Some of them include overcoming stupid documentation and tools from Microsoft who makes weird assumptions about upgrade/migration paths. I spent a lot more time overcoming hurdles and changing direction than I had planned on. I also under-planned and under-staffed – but we also spent a lot of time playing hurry up [...]

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