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Another day at the Office (Solairs, PHP & MySQL)

Figured I’d write about my day.

I am working on creating a database with a web front end. This is to allow people that I work with to update the customer information database from a webpage. I have all this running on a Solaris OS which is made by SUN. Its a free operating system that comes will all kinds of cool things. And by cool I mean really hard to figure out.

I setup this blog on a Windows machine and it was easy. This….Isn’t. Its like tech geeks go out of their way to make things more complicated than they need to be. This is a wall. It has been put there to keep the people who dont really want it out. I think that is job security.

I really want to work remote from PR. I’ve been working on it, but for some reason employers don’t see the win-win opportunity.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
Free OS? You mean….Not Windows or Mac?

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Puerto Rico Trip Itinerary

We are going to Puerto Rico for a little over two weeks. We bought our tickets on Expedia. We leave January 28 in the morning and arrive in Puerto Rico about 12 hours later-in Puerto Rican time. Puerto Rico doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time so the time difference between Colorado and Puerto Rico is larger during the winter with a three hour difference. We will be returning on February 12 and on that return trip we will be going back in time, so it will only take us 5 hours in local time. I am not sure what all will be going on in Puerto Rico during that time (festivals and such), but we have a few things we need to take care of including (not in any order):


The last time Britton and I were there together Aug 2005

1) Find rental car on the cheap (or other mode of transportation)
2) Go Snorkeling
3) Go salsa dancing
4) Visit the bank we are working with to buy property
5) Vist the Dept of Natural Resources to see how things are going with title/easement
6) Visit Carlos, the lawyer
7) Learn about growing the various crops
-8) Visit a couple of farmers’ markets (where are these? I’ve heard there is one in San Sebastian and Rincon)
9) Walk the property
10) Research possible electricity generators -microhydro- and how that would work
11) Determine hot water and water pressure situation
12) Try surfing for first time?
13) Make pasteles and deliver them with Awilda, the current owner
14) Visit bioilluminescence bay -Bio Bay- in either Paguera or Vieques early in trip since full moon will be there at end of trip
15) Go swimming

And probably many other things that we can’t foresee.


Hibiscus in PR

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Another day at the Office…Dreaming

I was doing some customer migrations from server to server and setting up scripts/troubleshooting them. All while listening to my Hector Lavoe library. It makes me think of the day when we can finally say that ‘this has all been wonderful, but now we are on our way’.

With the recent ‘economic crisis’ it has made me realize that I never wanted stocks. I want bananna trees, oranges, fresh water and I am starting to believe that less is more.

La Murga de Panama is a great song to dream to.

Though I doubt I will ever be in the street band of Panama, it sounds like I’d enjoy watching and drinking a cerveza.

Its a very stressful time to live in society and live up to its values.

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