MS05-039
August 12, 2005
Category moved from livejournal
Wheat Berry Ale
August 12, 2005
So, I think tonight I’ll bottle the wheat berry ale. The bottles are at home soaking in Oxyclean (they are clean already, I’m just being certain there’s nothing left on them), the carboy has been moved to the kitchen counter, and I’m pretty certain I know how much priming sugar I’ll need (166g).
Now to wrap up the day at work…
iSight Tripod Adapter
August 11, 2005
Well, I just sent off payment for 40 15′ long Firewire cables. On the way home from the dentist’s office tonight (I’m going by there to do some computer work) I’ll grab some more PVC pipe, some endcaps, some tee nuts, some paint, and get started on things. Hopefully within two weeks I’ll actually have them ready for sale…
iSight Tripod Adapter
August 11, 2005
[Cross posted to
So I’ve been thinking of manufacturing about 40 of those iSight tripod adapters and selling them. I’m thinking of making them a bit shorter than the one I have (there’s a lot of air space in there) and painting them black or so.
Price would be US$35 shipped within the US, slightly more to elsewhere.
I’m curious, do you all think this is a good idea? And, would you be interested in buying one?
Here is a shot of the device itself, similar to what would be for sale. Except the ones I sell will likely be painted black.
Right now I’m trying to get prices on Firewire cables, but I’m thinking I’d end up with 15′ cables, leaving about 14.5′ hanging out of the adapter. The extra length is there so that it’s possible to have the iSight mounted on the tripod, and the computer a goodly ways away.
So, interested? Your thoughts?
Boom!
August 9, 2005
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Wow, so The Environmental Quality Company in Wayne, MI is currently exploding. Damn.
UPDATE: …and here’s what they do: http://www.eqonline.com/services/audit-mdiwdi/facility_overview.pdf
UPDATE 2: I’ll add photo links here:
· http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/v/random_stuff/eqc_explosion_2.png.html
UPDATE 3: All photos moved to here (photo gallery retired).
UPDATE 4: Okay, so it seems that this was actually EQ’s company EQ Resource Recovery, Inc.. All the photos have been moved to here, a more appropriately named site.
Gallery 2…
August 8, 2005
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Well, I did it. I went ahead and moved my personal photo gallery to Gallery 2.
It’s quite a bit different, but I’m really liking it… The only issues I’m having are related to uploading photos to my moblog. In the old version of gallery, newly uploaded images were, by default, placed first in the album and set as the album thumbnail. This wouldn’t normally be the expected behavior, but it works out well for a moblog. In G2 images uploaded using the Nokia Image Upload API Module are dropped into the gallery and sorted per the gallery’s rules. Thusly, I had to change the gallery to sort based on ‘origination date’ so that newer photos are first, and I’ll have to go in and manually specify the new highlight photo each time I edit the captions. This really isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds.
I have also left all the photos in place under http://www.nuxx.net/albums for the time being. While not directly browsable, these are still the images that I have linked to in LJ, are indexed via Google Images, and appear all over the rest of the internet. Due to how imaged are sorted on the filesystem level in G2, I can’t make a simple mapping to them any longer. This isn’t a big deal either. I’ll just delete the old image location a bit later.
Speaking of linking directly to images in a manner like I did above, the URL to that image happens to be https://nuxx.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Image_632_.jpg. This could prove to be a problem if that temporary image expires, because the proper link to the original file is actually http://www.nuxx.net/g2data/albums/moblog/Image_632_.jpg. I’m going to have to find a proper way to link to the actual file itself, else I could run into trouble if the resized ones expire. That said, I think that the first URL I mentioned in this paragraph is actually redirected to the proper file by G2 itself, so maybe these links will hang around for a while. I’ll have to look and see.
One last thing, old-style requests to albums such as http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog are automatically rewritten to the new format URLs using mod_rewrite. Go ahead, try it… Click this link and see where it takes you: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog
Well, now that that’s all done, I think it’s time for me to head home and eat a nice bowl of chili from the pot I made up yesterday. Another late day sitting here, but at least I got stuff done and learned something.
Bye for now. :)
Lazychili Part Deux
August 7, 2005
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Well, there we go. After letting the Lazychili simmer for an hour, it is ready. Now it’s time to go eat the chili with a glass of summertime beer while sitting in front of the TV/TiVo and waching the second episode of FX’s Over There.
Lazychili
August 7, 2005
Ingredients (thus far) for Today’s Chili:
One Large Can Tomato Paste
One Can Each Dark Red Kidney Beans, Light Red Kidney Beans, Navy Beans, Black Beans, Pinto Beans
Two Cans Corn
One Container Garden Fresh Screamin’ Hot Salsa
~4 Tablespoons Generic Chili Powder
~1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
One Can Chipolte Peppers in Adobo Sauce (Chopped)
One Package Morningstar Farms Veggie Burgers (Chopped)
1/2 Tablespoon Salt
One Bottle of Rochefort 10 Cloneish (cooking with flat beer is just fine…)
We’ll see how it comes out… I’ve got chips and shredded sharp cheddar cheese to eat it with.
(Yes, it’s lazychili, as I didn’t want to chop up veggies, if it could be avoided… I’m just that lazy today.)
UPDATE: I just also added two shots of this tequila. Just…. because.
Blah.
August 5, 2005
So tonight I decided to have one of those bottles of 11% or 13% or whatever beer that I’d made, the Rochefort 10 Cloneish. Well, I grabbed a bottle which had been aging for six weeks, and what did I find? No carbonation.
Needless to say, I’m really disappointed. I have no idea what could have gone wrong, except for maybe the yeast dying off or something.
Blah. I’ve got no idea.
If you want, here is a picture of it poured in a glass.
I just hope that it either improves with time, or at the very least, that the other two not-yet-complete batches (the modified golden ale and the wheat berry ale) don’t suck.
I think this batch cost somewhere around $60 – $70 plus time once all was said and done.
Blah.
Web-based email on rez.nuxx.net…
August 3, 2005
Just FYI, I’ve made some changes to the web-based email (Squirrelmail) on nuxx.net. In the past, it was possible for a user to go to http://mail.domain.ext or https://mail.domain.ext to access Squirrelmail. If a user was using https, they would receive an error about a mismatched cert.
Well, today I signed up with CAcert.org and got a wildcard cert for *.nuxx.net. I’ve used this on both admin.nuxx.net and mail.nuxx.net and set it up so that all http requests forward to the https server. Because of a non-standard root CA a user will still receive an error, unless they agree to trust CAcert as a new root CA. The needed certificates for doing this can be found here. Please note that all requests to http://mail.domain.ext will now forward you to https://mail.nuxx.net so that the cert will work properly.
Additionally, I’ll be using this cert for imap-ssl and pop3-ssl so if you add this cert in a way which your mail program requires and then check your mail at mail.nuxx.net (this works for any domain I host…) using some encrypted method, all your email will be encrypted without your needing to agree to use an odd cert.
Yay!