Some spicy pics!
Fri, 2008-01-25 16:00 | by Erin
So I have been slowly but surely working on a new website for my Aunt and Uncle. They have sold herbs in New York for some 30 years. They have a large variety of products but for starters we paired it down to their best selling 12.
After a little address fiasco this summer I received 3 sample sets of herbs. I began working on their site and got about this far.
http://frogpark.hugedesigns.net
Which is a vast improvement over http://frogparkherbs.com but then I found that the new version of zen-cart has a built in API for accepting credit cards through Pay-Pal. So now I am setting up a virtual server to handle this site and another e-commerce site.
I haven't added any of the original content to it yet but it will live at frogparkherbs.hugedesigns.net until we can transfer the domain.
None of this is very exciting. One of my goals of getting the 3 sample sets was to photograph the spices so the site would show exactly what your getting. That's done.
After a little address fiasco this summer I received 3 sample sets of herbs. I began working on their site and got about this far.
http://frogpark.hugedesigns.net
Which is a vast improvement over http://frogparkherbs.com but then I found that the new version of zen-cart has a built in API for accepting credit cards through Pay-Pal. So now I am setting up a virtual server to handle this site and another e-commerce site.
I haven't added any of the original content to it yet but it will live at frogparkherbs.hugedesigns.net until we can transfer the domain.
None of this is very exciting. One of my goals of getting the 3 sample sets was to photograph the spices so the site would show exactly what your getting. That's done.
That is gonna leave a mark......
Wed, 2008-01-23 18:15 | by Erin
.........on our record that is.
We had our first match of the year Sunday Tokyo Gaijin vs Kogeni Green. In the final match of the Shuto League where win loose or draw we were the champs as long as we just showed up. That is pretty much what happened. We just showed up.
I had my usual pre game jitters and did not feel good till we started warming up. As things started to kick in I was fine but didn't have my normal fire and intensity. I am pretty a low key player. But this game I kept having to check my pulse to see if I was alive.
Seriously the game started out so so, then went to great finally we just nose dived in the final minutes.
On the Giajin team I have always thought our set pieces were particularly strong but not this time. The Kogeni scrum was strong, by far the strongest we had been up against all of the Shuto league. A normal Gaijin scrum involves us steam rolling our opposition with good tight technique or pure brute strength, or a combination of both.
Kogeni owned us on more than one occasion when I was on the field and when I was off others felt their wrath. They stood our front row straight up and crumpled our back tight 5. They were big fat fast Japanese guys.
In our line outs... I just can not describe it Murray is a awesome jumper and was being hefted by 2 strong guys Rob and Garret but he was getting beaten to the ball more times than not.
We had our first match of the year Sunday Tokyo Gaijin vs Kogeni Green. In the final match of the Shuto League where win loose or draw we were the champs as long as we just showed up. That is pretty much what happened. We just showed up.
I had my usual pre game jitters and did not feel good till we started warming up. As things started to kick in I was fine but didn't have my normal fire and intensity. I am pretty a low key player. But this game I kept having to check my pulse to see if I was alive.
Seriously the game started out so so, then went to great finally we just nose dived in the final minutes.
On the Giajin team I have always thought our set pieces were particularly strong but not this time. The Kogeni scrum was strong, by far the strongest we had been up against all of the Shuto league. A normal Gaijin scrum involves us steam rolling our opposition with good tight technique or pure brute strength, or a combination of both.
Kogeni owned us on more than one occasion when I was on the field and when I was off others felt their wrath. They stood our front row straight up and crumpled our back tight 5. They were big fat fast Japanese guys.
In our line outs... I just can not describe it Murray is a awesome jumper and was being hefted by 2 strong guys Rob and Garret but he was getting beaten to the ball more times than not.
Pay Attention
Wed, 2008-01-23 16:54 | by Erin
Some times I am not paying attention. I knew that on one server I had there was a database. What database it was I never bothered to check into. If I had I probably would not have spent all night last night working on it.
About 2pm I got a mail saying a disc in this server was critical. I looked at it in our reporting system and thought "Augh it was just one error..." I cleared the error and went back about my day. A hour later I noticed that the error was back and the rate at which the errors where being reported was increasing quickly..... the hard disc was dying.
I looked up the model and info for the server and went to the data center to repair it. I was in luck because the server had easy to remove (Hot Swapable) 36gb discs. I rsynced the data off shut down the dbs, did a final rsync, unmounted the disc pulled the old one out. I put the new one in formated it, newfs'ed it and mounted it. Finally I rsynced the data back and started the DBs up and it was up and running.
Sounds simple right but with 20 something gigs of data the inital rsyncs took almost a hour and 1/2 each. I love technology.
Anyways todays plan .... get a list of all the DBs there locations and see which ones need to be moved to more redundant discs.... so I do not have to go through that again.
About 2pm I got a mail saying a disc in this server was critical. I looked at it in our reporting system and thought "Augh it was just one error..." I cleared the error and went back about my day. A hour later I noticed that the error was back and the rate at which the errors where being reported was increasing quickly..... the hard disc was dying.
I looked up the model and info for the server and went to the data center to repair it. I was in luck because the server had easy to remove (Hot Swapable) 36gb discs. I rsynced the data off shut down the dbs, did a final rsync, unmounted the disc pulled the old one out. I put the new one in formated it, newfs'ed it and mounted it. Finally I rsynced the data back and started the DBs up and it was up and running.
Sounds simple right but with 20 something gigs of data the inital rsyncs took almost a hour and 1/2 each. I love technology.
Anyways todays plan .... get a list of all the DBs there locations and see which ones need to be moved to more redundant discs.... so I do not have to go through that again.
Yuki-dariman
Wed, 2008-01-23 16:38 | by ErinIt has been brutally cold here in Tokyo the past couple of days, but it had not snowed. It rarely snows here so when it does to me it is kind of a treat. It reminds me of home.
I woke up early yesterday and did my normal exercises and also did some wind sprints. I noticed that on the top of Satomi's car was a thin layer of snow and now that the sun was up it was starting to melt.
I finished my run and made a little snow man. Eric was pretty pleased he thought it was great Even though he doesn't show it here.
E./
