http://blog.ginkosoft.com We blog things. Things that do stuff. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:47:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today marks 1,000 consecutive days online for Caffeine, my oldest and (obviously) most reliable server.  A huge thanks to the guys over at Wolfpaw.net for their incredibly stable and reliable co-location services. -Hinoserm http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=16 Last night, I walked back to my office to find (as the title and this photo suggest) that my two dogs Nick and Ned had eaten apart my leather wallet, which was sitting on the desk next to my workstation.  Luckily, my driver's license and social security card survived the attack with only ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=15 Some random history: Back when I first started GinkoSoft -- originally intended to be the name through which I would provide internet services and application development -- in 1998, it was a hobby.  I was living with family, didn't need to worry about paying bills, and I had ample supplies of ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=14 BLUE HAIR! I have bright blue hair! NYAH! Also, it's warming up down here. My mom is in the hospital again, but this time it's preventative, so she will hopefully be out very soon. There's really nothing much else worth commenting about. I've been having strange visions of horrable modifications ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=13 Hino is down and I hope is doing well. We went and got some kites yesterday or so and flew them today. He got a box kite that seemed to do fairly well, aside from being maddly in love with the big elm tree in my yard. Hey, it only ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=12 My grandmother was in the hospital on Christmas day, so it got delayed untill the 3rd of Febuary. She's doing ok, but has lost a lot of weight. Still, she looked healthy. Anyway.. we were all standing around and I noticed my Uncle feeding my grandmothers little fuzzy dog named ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=11 I'm not sick anymore. An official date of Feburary 20th has been set for my move to Texas.  I have still yet to tell my mother or anyone else about it, though my aunt knows now. On a related note... (Potentially angry content below.  This is where I warn you to put on ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=10 I'm sick.  It's either a cold, or the flu, or maybe some type of heart attack, or a brain tumor, or a dislodged banana... truth of the matter is I really don't care what's making me feel horrible, so long as I can take something to get rid of it ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=9 My mother keeps asking what I want for Christmas.  Well, I always need more of these harddrives. Like, 20 of them.  If anyone asks what I want, give them one of these to get; they're the cheapest thing that I always always need.  (Don't get them in stores -- they're twice the price and half ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=8 Earlier, back in March or so, I decided to try the Internet Explorer 7 beta/preview/whatever, and it sucked.  So today, I loaded up Windows Update to find one of the suggested critical updates to be none other than IE7. Being one to keep my computer up-to-date, I installed it, thinking "Hey, if they're releasing ... http://blog.ginkosoft.com/?p=7