I got a google voice number!
Posted in General on July 6th, 2009
Friendship Bread
Posted in General on November 5th, 2008Well, my wife and I completed our 2 loafs of friendship bread.
Please check out my new “Friendship Bread” page.
www.askerrol.org/friendshipbread
Warning: Save my marriage, don’t give me friendship bread.
Secondly, no I didn’t bake it — if I did, I probably would have burned the house down.
Back online …
Posted in General on October 14th, 2008Finally got around to fixing mysql db in use for wordpress.
Tables had to be optimized and repaired to recover record information.
Daddy’s Lapdog - Bailey Baby Boo Boo - October 25, 2007
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Kings Dominion
Posted in General on July 4th, 2007We made another road trip up to Virginia for the child to visit Kings Dominion. My father-in-law drove, as he has in the past. So, we arrived before they opened and had to wait about 20 mins. It was lightly-raining just after we arrived, and wondered if we were going to be rained out. We had postponed going by one day due to the wet weather.
But within 30 mins of the gates opening, the rain stopped. It stayed overcast most of the day, which was a blessing of sorts. The sun came out around 3:30, and it never got uncomfortable.
My daughter had reached the next “ride level” based on height, so this was a good and bad thing. Good she could get in some new rides, but bad due to her being “too tall” for some of the kiddie rides she enjoyed.
The cool and overcast weather prevented us from doing water rides, which was a bummer for my daughter — but rather not get the kid sick if we can help it. Hopefully or next visit will include a fun visit to the water rides, as well as the ones we got to ride this year.
Fourth of July Fireworks
Posted in General on July 4th, 2007Hmmm. This seems to be an unposted entry … but there is no content.
But it is July 4th again!
I plan on doing some simple fireworks with my daughter tonight, once it gets dark. We have sparklers, and a few fireworks that will spray “colors”. So, I’m sure it will be a night of excitement for her.
Unforutnately, other members of my family (the dogs) don’t enjoy the noise — so they will be scared to death until 1-2 a.m. as random people around the neighborhood continue to fire off their fireworks into the early morning.
This heading was from July 9th, 2005 — but it is July 4th already now in 2007!
New Job!
Posted in General on July 4th, 2007Well, this is old news now … but figured I should write about it nevertheless.
I started working for the State of NC in the Information Technology Services agency. The group I’m in is responsible for support Unix servers — primarily Solaris.
I began the new job at the end of January, and have been busy with it all the time.
I worked on updating our servers for Dailylight Savings Time changes as my first project. I then had the opportunity to attend Solaris 10 and Solaris Sun Cluster training soon after. I’m now working on a project involving a number of state agencies, the project is called BEACON.
It keeps me quite busy, but the work environment is enjoyable. They even support alternative work schedules (AWS). AWS allows you to work out a schedule, whereas you can take a day off every two weeks in addition to your normal weekends. So, it is nice to be able to work in an extra day.
Fence is Fixed!
Posted in General on December 30th, 2006Well, the fence is fixed! They came out and examined the damage, and then took the gate to fence place to be fixed. They had to replace four corner pieces that had been cracked.
My father-in-law and I, worked on adjusting the post today. We are going to see if we can get it to set in a new position, by just packing dirt around it — if not we will have to purchase some cement, and redo the post.
What Luck!
Posted in General on December 26th, 2006Being that we live in an older house, we have had to pump our septic tank almost annually. So we decided to be proactive, and have it pumped before issues occurred, and look what happened.
The driver of the septic truck busted one of our gates by accident, while backing into our yard. I’m sure everything will work out. But sometimes you have to wonder why these things happen!
Python Smtplib.py - address family not supported
Posted in General on October 19th, 2006
python 2.3.3; smtplib stopped working when sending to localhost. This broke my mailman installation for a day or two.
It turned out the hostname of my server mx.askerrol.org, was being set to mx only and could not be resolved; so SMTPlib failed.
I had to modify /etc/nodename, even though /etc/hostname.DEVICE and /etc/hosts had the FQDN.
Once this was done, everything started working properly. Thanks go to the folks on the freenode.net #python channel for the assistance in debugging this.
Message length is 60
connect: (‘127.0.0.1′, 25)
connect:(‘127.0.0.1′, 25)
reply: ‘220 mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix\r\n’
reply: retcode (220);
Msg: mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix
connect: mx.askerrol.org ESMTP Postfix
Traceback(most recent call last): File “test1.py”, line 24, in ? server = smtplib.SMTP(‘127.0.0.1′)
File“/usr/local/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py”, line 254, in __init__ addr =socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) socket.gaierror: (1, ‘address family not supported’)
Douglas Byrd - Class of 1986 - 20th Reunion
Posted in General on October 10th, 2006It is over 
After 2 years of planning, the event has come and gone.
Wow! What a blast it was. Friday football. Saturday picnic , school tour, and a dance saturday night.
It is amazing how much you can forget in 20 years! We had over 60 alumni return for the reunion, and many brought guests. The comments have been positive, and that means a lot to me (being part of the reunion committee). It was a lot of work to pull it off, especially when it seems everything comes together at the end. It would be less stressful, to get more response earlier in the process.
We had a number of folks volunteer to help for the next one, so maybe this will make things easier. Time will tell!
Thanks to all that helped and came the reunion!
Playing with web based photo albums
Posted in General on October 10th, 2006I’ve created a picasa web folder album, you can see a link to it at the following URL:
I also have photos, online at photo.askerrol.org using Gallery. Any comments on free web album sites?
Meebo Me!
Posted in General on October 2nd, 2006I’m going to and figure out how to add this to my blog (on the site)
But you may be able to catch me online.
Heat Wave
Posted in General on July 20th, 2006Whew! Walking outside today felt like walking into a brick wall. I heard
folks speak of temperatures reaching > 100. Luckly, the normal North
Carolina humidness isn’t present with the current heat wave.
TWTC’s News Channel 14 has a weather blog.
http://news14weather.blogspot.com/
Cape Fear Radio Society Swapfest - August 12, 2006
Posted in General on July 20th, 20068th Annual Ole Fashioned
CFARS SwapFest
Sponsored by the Cape Fear Amateur Radio Society and Methodist College
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Saturday
August 12, 2006
8:00 am to 12:00noon
To be held in the lobby of Reeves Auditorium on the campus of
Methodist College
Highway 401 North(5400 Ramsey St)
No Admission!! No Fee for Tables!!
Donations to CFARS will be accepted
Talk-in: 146.910(100hz tone)
VE Test Session Walk-ins Only Registration 9:00am Testing 9:30am
Testing will be held in the Science Building (look for the building with
the tall tower behind Reeves Auditorium)
Information: David KR4OE kr4oe@nc.rr.com
(910)237-9097
Bob KL7NL kl7nl@nc.rr.com
(910)425-4175
Tail Gating available if you want to brave the heat
**Reeves Auditorium is handicapped accessible, air conditioned, and has a
loading dock. Come on out and join David, Bob, and the rest of the CFARS
gang for a few hours of amateur radio fun and fellowship. Its all
FREE!!!!!
Happy Fourth of July!
Posted in General on July 4th, 2006I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th holiday. I will be enjoying
the day off with my family.
If anybody sees some awesome fireworks, send me some pictures.
Due to heat, I doubt we will be attending any events ourselves. It seems
even the evenings are hot; it was 99 degress after 5 p.m. on Monday!
Thank goodness for AC.
Instant Messaging through the web - meebo
Posted in General on June 29th, 2006Now you can use instant messaging through a web browser.
Rather than installing multiple clients, you can setup an account and login to your MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, and/or gmail account through meebo.
I learned of this application through a mailing list that discussed common tools, used in libraries.
Do you know what books you have? Let LibraryThing help track your personal library
Posted in General on June 4th, 2006Finally found a way to keep up with all my books, and my daughters!
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
You will notice on my blog, that I have added a “Random” book list from my library. I’m just getting started, so it may take a while to get all my books in the list.
You can use this service for up to 200 books free! For unlimited listings, you must pay $10/year or get a lifetime membership for $25 which seems reasonable.
Librarians on the Internet
Posted in General on June 3rd, 2006I’ve recently became interested in libraries and librarians. I found the following list of weblogs
via bloglines new search.
PubSub Community Lists: The Librarian List
This link also introduced me to PubSub, a free subscription service that allows you to get “notifications” of subjects of interest from newsgroups, weblogs, and other sources.
Visit the main PubSub site at http://www.pubsub.com