Gekitsuu's Geekery

I'm no longer hosting my sites at my house. This is in preparation for an ISP switch that's coming soon and I won't be able to run my web/mail server at home anymore. It's a little uncomfortable but something I probably should have done a while ago. The switch has gone pretty smooth there were a couple burps but they only happened during the night so hopefully not many people noticed . I'm home this week on some much needed leave from my job and unfortunately I'm sick at the same time so I'm not sure how much of a break it's going to feel like. I've been watching lots of poker, working on lots of ideas I've had, and sleeping for more hours in the day than a person should sleep. I just received my copy of "The Official Ubuntu Book" and I hope to post a review shortly, who knows maybe I'll make it the first review I post on Amazon. Aside from the illness things are going well and I hope to start putting up one of my open source projects on Freshmeat in the next few days.

I've uploaded over 100 re-rendered fractals and I'm pleased to say that switching my server to Ubuntu seems to have give me a slight bump in speed. The podcast seems to be doing well aside from the problems we had last night with recording. We're going to try again tonight and hope that my connection holds up. Every time I spend a morning working on my fractals ideas race through my head about setting up calendars for sale on Lulu and I just never seem to find the time to do it. On the weight loss front I seem to be dropping again which is huge for me. I've been trying to lose weight since early may and so far I've dropped 35+ pounds. I know it seems like a lot but I lost most of it early on and my weight loss has slowed considerably. I keep trying to play with my diet/exercise to see if I can get back to the numbers that I had at the beginning but slowly I'm resigning my self to the fact that the reality is, it's going to be slower from now on. It's really sad that I haven't posted a blog entry in 5 months.