times change

So... I don't know.

I got my VPS up and running finally. Went with Linode. Had several friends speak highly of it. Went with a default Debian Squeeze install. Got it hardened as best I could. Now I'm getting ready to hit it with LAMP.

Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP.

I was thinking LEMP, (NginX instead of Apache), but since I'm going to be running Drupal, and really want an easy set up (follow the howtos and be working kind), I'm going to skip LEMP. Can always change later.

So what will this VPS be doing?
- Personal website. Blog, resume, photo gallory, email etc. Yes I said blog.
- Offer up a site to my martial arts school. Cheaper and more control than what they are using now. Using a CRM framework (drupal again) should make it easy enough to have updated.
- Maybe a site for the Locksport groups
- shell access for me. Mostly for IRC.
- Photo and video exchange site for the parkour group I'm in. Maybe.

thinking about breaking it up

I'm thinking of breaking my blog up. It's a wide mishmash of things right now. I'm thinking it might be better to break the computer stuff out into another blog, and leave this part Kettlebells, politics, and rambles.

What does everyone else think?

On blogging, writing and time usuage over all

I read sites like Pharyngula, Bad Astronomy, and Schneier on Security. And I wonder how they manage to write so many blog posts. BA and PZ more than Schneier, but even he manages to get a couple posts a week. Lately I'm lucky to post 1 time every 8 days.

Then today, I think I realized what they do, they write set a time apart daily to write, and write on several things at once, saving drafts to be polished later. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. I'd like to get Essential Blogging by Cory Doctorow and company (yes I know he's not the primary) to see how they say to do it.

Anyway I started thinking of this last night. I was looking for my copy of The Watchmen graphic novel after seeing the movie. Instead I found my old Journal. The paper kind. large books, about 8.5 by 11.5 (roughly). I got it cheap back in 2002. I wrote in it some last night, and I read what was in there before. Even then, I wrote several times that I never seem to have enough time to do the things I want.

Time has been on my mind a lot lately. Mainly since I live alone. I've picked up a new hobby (Monday nights Yoga), do Martial Arts about 3 days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday), teach Self Defense on Wednesdays. Usually, I come home, spend about an hour here, and then run out the door to go somewhere. Sometimes it's not even an hour. And I feel bad about leaving my parrot locked up in a cage all day. He's never been much of a cage bird. The store loved him, and would let him out and he'd follow the employees around, while they were cleaning up. The person I lived with would leave him out of the cage most of the day. Trying to get him in the cage when I leave is next to impossible.

Then when I get home, he usually hangs out for about 30 minutes or so, then gets really bitey because he want's to go to sleep. Since I still have only the one small cage, and the spare bed room isn't set up for him, I get chased away from the TV, my desk, and my cisco lab. Which adds to my problem of doing things at night, when I'm finally home.

I can take the laptop with me, but then it's all wireless (slower than wired) and I'm stuck doing things from bed.

Lastly, there have been several things I've wanted to blog about but just have not had the time.

Political burn out, information overload

I'm burnt out on politics right now. I could blog daily about everything going on, but I won't.

I'm also in information overload, when it comes to IT right now. So I'm adding a new section to the blog....

Since I'm into Kettlebells and strength training, and since I'm interacting with other Blogger people who are into the same things, I'm going to start tracking my workouts here. I was doing it in live journal, but see the part about interacting with people.