From the monthly archives:

March 2008

xenenterprise 4.1

March 31, 2008

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of XenEnterprise as a virtulization platform, as it’s based on open source software, and just makes it a lot nicer to manage. For some reason, it just seems to make a lot more sense to me than VMware ESX when I’m trying to debug a problem [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Open-source, Storage, Virtualization, Xen

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i think i might be a panhead

March 28, 2008

Last night, Minneapolis was the first stop on Skillet’s Comatose tour, with Thousand Foot Krutch and Decyfer Down. It was at Club 3 Degrees, which is a small Christian club on 1st and 5th downtown. Tiff and I went with a friend, and met up with one of my coworkers and a couple friends [...]

Tagged as: Music, Skillet

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i will never steam asparagus again

March 23, 2008

So, SuperTarget had asparagus on sale for $.99/lb. Tiff and I both love the stuff, so even though it wasn’t in the greatest shape, we picked some up. I usually buy asparagus in the frozen, ready-to-steam bags, and it tastes good. However, this time it was fresh asparagus, and I couldn’t find our steamer. I [...]

Tagged as: Food

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mosso – “the hosting cloud”?

March 14, 2008

A few weeks ago, a coworker pointed out Mosso, which bills itself as “The Hosting Cloud”. Looks like a really interesting service – basically like shared hosting that will scale forever; no need to worry about individual servers, etc.
If you are just hosting a generic php/rails/etc site that gets a lot of traffic, it looks [...]

Tagged as: Cloud, Hosting

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