June 2011 Blog Posts

Quick post here as a reference both for you and me. I’ve been doing a lot of with lately with PHP and MongoDB using a VirtualBox build for development.  A big PITA is when, say, the power goes out or Windows restarts computer at night from automatic updates.  My Ubuntu image reboots just fine after, rarely having to do an inode check.  But often the MongoDB daemon does not start after.  It starts often enough to where I don’t think to verify the service is running after a reboot, so I will go in to do some PHP work...

Ok, true story as of maybe 30 minutes ago… I would like it known that names have been changed to protect the innocent.  I’d also like it to be known that I was at home watching the children, so I was not involved. During grocery shopping, a woman notices a boy / young man, perhaps aged 14, shopping with his father.  They are an “average” father / son team, meaning not white trash or baseball-/wrestler-dad douchers.  The boy steals a package of condoms.  Only the woman notices.  The woman tells one of the grocery store workers.  She does...