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Dad’s Meatloaf
Vinegar Peppers : * 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil. * 1/4 cp. chicken stock. * 1/2 onion sliced thin. * 1/2 red bell pepper seeded and sliced thin. * 2 garlic cloves, minced. 1/4 cp. drained jarred sliced banana peppers. … Continue reading
Areca Tools RPM for CentOS Linux.
We recently started deploying servers with Areca RAID controllers (we had been a long time 3ware purchaser, but recently the cards and the support of them seems to have taken a turn for the worse). Areca provides a handful of … Continue reading
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How to write a WordPress plugin to notify your customers via Twitter.
WordPress has a page on “Writing a Plugin” that you can refer to for all the gory details; this post is a quick demonstration of how you too can notify people of updates to your Blog via Twitter. Add your … Continue reading
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Augie’s 30th Inglorious Birthday Bash
What :Â Augie’s 30th Birthday. When :Â 22, November at 12:00pm. Where :Â Third Street Aleworks, 610 3rd Street Santa Rosa, CA Help me celebrate my 30th birthday by joining me at the Third Street Aleworks in downtown Santa Rosa, … Continue reading
My Two-Years Old.
IMG_5573 Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. I finally got around to uploading the photos and videos from Davis’ second Birthday shindig. The full set, including videos, is here: http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157607792750337/
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Welcome to the world Lillian
Lillian Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Lillian Angeline Schwer born 15 Aug. 2008 – 5:53pm – 6lb. 7oz. – 18.5in long – 33.5cm head circumference. Everyone is doing well; labor was not easy, but it was fast; Davis is taking … Continue reading
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Press Democrat photo for article: “What are you doing?”
Press Democrat photo for article: “What are you doing?” Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. I am quoted in a recent Press Democrat article about Twitter and along with it came a photo that showed up on the front page of … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Father’s Day Gift Buying Guide.
A list of things every man should own and the perfect gift buying guide for Dad with Father’s Day just around the corner. Pocket Knife My favorite thing to say when someone asks me if I have a knife is: … Continue reading
Available for Usability Testing?
Just got this email; let me know if you are interested. Hey Augie, I’m working for Safari Books Online now, and we’re conducting some usability testing to get a better idea of how techies use/would use our product. Would you … Continue reading
Sonoma County Transit WiFi
Just got this email: Augie – Sonoma County Transit introduced free WiFi service on five buses this past Wednesday (4-30). The WiFi equipped buses are our newest buses that are equipped with high-back seats, luggage racks and reading lamps. The … Continue reading
Number one egg collector in his class.
Number one egg collector in his class. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. All the practice putting his blocks away really showed when the Easter Egg Hunt came; kid was an animal. The rest of the Easter photos can be found … Continue reading
PowerDNS MySQL INT limit reached.
The very non-descriptive error below indicates that you have reached the maximum value for the MySQL INT Data Type. Communicator thread died because of error: Failed to execute mysql_query, perhaps connection died? Err=-1: Duplicate entry ’2147483647′ for key 1 What … Continue reading
Feed Twitter an RSS feed with Perl.
Here’s a more concise script to feed Twitter an RSS feed; in this case the latest post to the Sonic.net MOTD Blog. The following code grabs the latest entry in an RSS feed, pulls out the URL and as much … Continue reading
Ultrasound of new edition to the Schwer Family.
New Schwer arrival (aka Cookie) – Ultrasound Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. We’ve nick named the newest Schwer “Cookie”; like Angela’s baking a cookie; we don’t find the sex out for a while, but due date is end of August.
Twitter Feed – feed your blog to twitter.
I should have been using Twitter Feed this whole time to feed the Sonic.net MOTD Blog to the Sonic.net Twitter Bot; also instead of sending out a Tweet every time I blog, or find something cool via Google Reader; I’ll … Continue reading
Sonic.net updates via Twitter
Get updates about your favorite ISP from Twitter; just send “follow sonicnet” from your favorite Twitter device. You can check out the sonicnet page to see what you’ll be getting. The code for this is made possible by the Net::Twitter … Continue reading
Fun with facial hair.
Beard – front Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Angela was at a movie with friends; Davis was asleep, and I clearly needed to shave; thus was born the documentary: “Fun with facial hair”. http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157603847033541/
Perl , $SIG{CHLD} = ‘IGNORE’ , system() and you.
Note: This has been in my drafts for a while, but I think it’s ready for publishing.. At first blush you probably would not expect the following to print “-1″; as you probably expect “system” to execute and return the … Continue reading
It’s a Schwer Christmas.
It’s a Schwer Christmas. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Merry Christmas everyone; here are some Christmas photos from the Schwers: http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157603608425815/
Perl CPAN PowerDNS modules released.
I have released several PowerDNS modules to CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~augie/ PowerDNS::Backend::MySQL Provides an interface to manipulate PowerDNS data in the MySQL Backend. PowerDNS::Control::Client Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon. PowerDNS::Control::Server Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon. The … Continue reading