Rain.
July was full of it up here. I don’t know if any records were set, but I do know it was near the top for total July rainfall. Also, no 90’s today, which means April was the last time we had 90’s. The local news informed us the other day that since this sort of stuff has been recorded, only in 1920 and 1932 have June and July passed by without a day in the 90’s. To which, I think the most appropriate thing to say is- kinda cool.
Now a post on something a little more interesting….
This is the bookshelf I just made for my wife’s home office. It’s not particularly large and was definitely made for the space in which it resides. The dimensions are 48″ long (the top) x 30″ high x 15″ deep(the top). The dimensions of the case portion of the shelf are 14″ deep by about 44″ long. It is made entirely of maple and cherry and finished with tung oil. Actually, that’s not technically true- there is also some black walnut. The top is aligned on the back with the case, but overhangs the case on both sides and the front. Also, you can’t tell from the picture, but I rounded over the bottom half of the top to create an undercut. This helps to obscure the fact that the top is pretty beefy- 7/8″ finished.
What’s the point of doing this stuff if you can’t personalize it some?
I just finished some minor mods to the theme, Arclite which is available at the WordPress site. The nickel version is I moved the date, author and comment info to the bottom of the post. Additionally, I added a time field in there as well. I left the title where it was. I had to monkey with the PHP code to accomplish these mods. Pretty painless really.
Anyhow, I prefer the look of it this way. Ideally, I’ll right justify the author and comment stuff, but how to do that eludes me for the moment. I don’t really know PHP, but I know enough to figure out how to move “blocks” around anyway. All part of the learning process…
Just finished updating the About page. Figured I’d start trying to add some content here. So, a little about the setup at this point.
This is a WordPress site. At the time of this post, it exists only on my home LAN. That LAN consists of several computers. The one I’m composing this on is a WinXP Pro- this is the wife’s machine. It’s location in the house makes it convenient to jump on and use.
My computer is a Debian Linux/Testing machine located in the basement. I’ve got Apache running on it as well as a bunch of other server related software to make life simpler (and more interesting) computing wise. What else is the server doing? So glad you asked…
In addition to Apache/ WordPress, which you are currently using while reading this post, I’ve got Samba/ CUPS running, since we have a mixed computing environment here. Samba is configured as a PDC in this case. Further, the machine is running as a Dovecot IMAP server. It fetches mail for me and the wife using fetchmail– what else? Bogofilter is the spam filter of choice (tried SpamAssassin, wasn’t very effective for my email) along with ClamAV for virus scanning. Oh, let’s not forget about Exim as the MTA. I guess to round out the whole server theme, I’ve also installed mySQL and PHP, making this a full-on LAMP server. Now, aren’t you glad you asked about the server?
And to give credit where it’s due, it’s a testament to the open-source community and Google that I’ve been able to get all this stuff up and running- reliably no less. I wanted to link to the fellow who’s site had some extremely valuable posts regarding Apache and mySQL setup, unfortunately I can’t find him now.
So anyway- I already figure the site will evolve some, assuming I keep at it long enough. Like all of the above, I’m doing this to learn a little bit. That’s why I’m hosting this site on my LAN as opposed to going full-bore out on the web.
And with that, time to deal with the chil’ens…
Let’s see what we can do here…