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Fri, 26 Dec 2008

Christmas Day.



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Sat, 13 Dec 2008

Triming the tree.



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Tue, 11 Nov 2008

Natalie made me breakfast in bed.



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Sun, 02 Nov 2008

Circus



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Wed, 29 Oct 2008

October OA Weekend

Photos from the weekend have been posted. Enjoy.


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Sat, 25 Oct 2008

A natural equestrian.

Natalie had her first riding lesson today. She did very well.




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Sun, 19 Oct 2008

Eat 'n Park



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Mon, 13 Oct 2008

PPW
Natalie had fun playing with the giant whiteboards at The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop.



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Wed, 03 Sep 2008

So, am I supposed to throw it?



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Mon, 01 Sep 2008

Last day for Idlewild.



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Mon, 18 Aug 2008

Happy birthday



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Tue, 12 Aug 2008

Riding The Whip at Kennywood



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Sat, 09 Aug 2008

Riding The Whip at Idlewild



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Tue, 29 Jul 2008

Fire at work



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Boo meets his new housemate



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Fri, 18 Jul 2008

I lost my great listener last night.

Last night around 2:00 in the morning, as I held her hand, my sister left this world and went to be with our mother in a better place.

I will always remember my sister as the one that was there to listen and be a supporting voice when there were no others. In that way, my sister really lived her entire life being a sister to so many people in this world.
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Photos

Here are some recent additions to my photo galleries:


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Tue, 01 Jul 2008

Cop on a Segway in Pittsburgh.



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Tue, 27 May 2008

Idlewild



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Sun, 25 May 2008

Before and after



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Sat, 17 May 2008

Pool is painted.



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Fri, 16 May 2008

Map of BSA Camps

Somebody created a Google Map of most of the BSA camps in or around Pennsylvania.. That took a lot of work! A very cool resource and an excellent use of the "my maps" feature in Google Maps.


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Mon, 12 May 2008

Dining hall work continues.



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Wed, 30 Apr 2008

YAPC

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008

First one caught all by herself.



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Mon, 21 Apr 2008

April OA Weekend

I just posted some pictures from the April OA Weekend. Not very many photos there. I hardly had time to pick up a camera all weekend.

Work on Conclave is progressing. The problem at this stage is that we've got a lot of people that need a fire lit underneath them. People are still believing that things get done on their own, and I'm afraid the only thing that's going to teach them differently is a major embarrassment in front of the whole section.

I also posted some pictures from the Council of Chiefs, which took place the previous weekend.


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Thu, 10 Apr 2008

First rappeling lesson.



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Thu, 03 Apr 2008

Contrast



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Wed, 02 Apr 2008

How many PennDOT workers does it take to change a light bulb?



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That's one way to make a sun roof.

I guess his truck was 11 feet, 7 inches. It is unbelievable the number of people that get stuck under that bridge at bates street.




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Sat, 29 Mar 2008

Weekend Warriors

I spent today up at Camp Conestoga volunteering with the Weekend Warriors helping them get camp ready for the OA weekend. We spent all day in the dining hall. Unfortunately, there were some break-in's at camp over the Winter. Among the things destroyed up at camp, it appears that somebody brok into the dining hall and stole all the copper pipe off the wall, presumably for the scrap.

We spent the day jackhammering the old concrete out of the room previously holding the waterheaters. There is a new waterheater going in, but unfortunately the floor has collapsed, so we need to pour a new floor first. Meanwhile, all of the missing pipes are being replaced with plastic.

Pictures from today are available here.
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Sun, 16 Mar 2008

Penguins game



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Tue, 11 Mar 2008

My team is expanding.

pair Networks is hiring more developers. One of those developers will report to me. I'm looking forward to taking on some bigger projects in the future with a bigger team.


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Sun, 09 Mar 2008

Team Wright wins Championships!

Team Wright wins the Pittsburgh Curling Club 3 Rivers Medal.

The draw was neck and neck the entire way through up until the 8th end, when we managed to grab 3 points and clinch a win. Final score was 8-6.




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Fri, 07 Mar 2008

This is where I got my taxes done.



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Sun, 02 Mar 2008

Team Wright moves on to championships.

After receiving a first-round bye due to our standings, Team Wright beat Team Pomaybo last night in a game that came down to skip's rocks. It was a fierce battle the entire way through. Nobody gave up more than 2 points in any end, and there were more draws to the button than in any game I've ever played.

Next Saturday at 7:00, we'll be competing in the League Gold Division Championships for a chance to win the Three Rivers Medal.


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Fri, 29 Feb 2008

Stuck at work while it snows.



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Sat, 23 Feb 2008

Lodge banquet.



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Wed, 06 Feb 2008

Getting PostgreSQL to run on OS X 10.5

I had some trouble getting PostgreSQL to work with launchd today. I googled a few articles, including this one but of the few that actually contained sample code, none of them seemed to work.

One thing I realized is that most of the examples out there try to invoke pg_ctl. This is a mistake. Launchd wants to be pg_ctl. The real solution seems to be to let launchd run postgre directly. So, here's my /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.PostgreSQL.plist file. Hopefully this will be useful to somebody:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>org.postgresql.PostgreSQL</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres</string> <string>-D</string> <string>/usr/local/pgsql/data</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true /> <key>UserName</key> <string>postgres</string> </dict> </plist>


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Fri, 25 Jan 2008

Happy Birthday



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Sat, 19 Jan 2008

Rochester Curling Club



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Like father like daughter.



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Fri, 18 Jan 2008

Happy Birthday Fr. George



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New laptop arrived today.



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Thu, 10 Jan 2008

Bird in the back yard.

My best guess is a juvenile cooper's hawk. If anybody knows for sure, please post a comment.




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