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Reading this article I couldn’t help but record some ideas:

It all started with this site’s gallery (saikit.ca) that I really liked, I started looking out there for something to integrate into my WP blog.

Today (24 Nov 09) I think I’ve decided how I’m going to do this. Read more…

A couple of links which I know will come in handy later:

How to Resize Xen File Based Disk VMs

How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest

Having listened to Brian Tracy’s ‘Psychology of Achievement’ on audio CD, and thought it was packed full of great information. Personally to get the most of these audio materials, I need to listen to the material at least twice. Writing notes as listening also helps.

So I’ve decided to write notes on this audio series. Read more…

UPDATE: Scratch everything. I will do everything in a wordpress blog format.

UPDATE2: I am actually very impressed at how flexible wordpress is for designing websites… I’m thinking of doing all future web designs in wordpress.

I will need rollover images (at least for the 3 main images)

Features to implement:

- add blog section. Ability to edit blog. Excerpts of the blog (the first dozen words or so) get displayed on the side bar.
- Side bar displays news, and new/upcoming schools.
- Need to decide if the side bar will be present in all pages or just some. Upcoming schools should be visible all the time. Upcoming school should have a link to the school type page.
- Ability to edit the school schedule. School schedule page should be generate dynamically.

Changes to make:

- program a simple news/blog tool in PHP and integrate it.

I had some difficulty figguting out how to resize a partion, so I thought I’d document it for future use (since I’m sure I will do this again). Read more…

So after installing OpenSuSE 11.2 on the server machine, I decided to take a step back nd decide how to manage all the current and future virtual machine.

For starters, I will use LVM for the disk space they use. I have created a template/minimal install of OpenSuse11.2 into a file based VM. The file disk it’s installed on is 1GB. gzipped, the file is only 250MB.

This will be the basis/starting point for all the new VMs. I have used dd to copy the virtual file based disk to an LVM volume on any size. Once that’s done, I can resize the partition to whatever size I want. (Note 1 on resizing) I can also make as many copies I want and run them as anything I want.

Wow, this is big!

Drinking a Coke or eating a candy bar can partially knock out your immune system for up to 5 hours.

How come nobody has ever told me this before? Read more…

CRUSH IT!: Gary Vaynerchuk