Author Archives: Clay

About Clay

I'm a Data Center Operations Engineer in beautiful Charleston, SC. I'm happily married to my wonderful wife Nan and we have an teenage daughter Lela. I'm a total geek. I got into electronics when I was around 9 or 10 and got hooked on computers shortly thereafter. I also love Sci-Fi, (not fantasy) particularly Star Trek. My favorite outdoor activities include rollerblading, biking and hiking. I'm also a bit of a car guy and amateur racing driver.

PBS program follows Natl Guard platoon

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FRONTLINE: bad voodoo’s war | PBS

I happened to be looking through the TV listings last night and flipped to this program because I thought it might be interesting.  For the next hour I was completely glued to the screen as I watched the raw reality of these men unfold.  This isn’t an action packed recruitment video for the military.  It’s a video diary made by the soldiers themselves.  The video isn’t about the conflict itself, but rather the effect is has on the men and those close to them.  For their sake, I hope this war is brought to a close very soon.  To the men of Bad Voodoo:  Thank you for everything you’ve done and are doing to serve our country.  We owe you and your families a debt that can never be fully repaid.

WordPress 2.5 upgrade

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Since Matt Mullenweg announced the release of WordPress 2.5 the other day, I thought I’d go ahead and give it a try. While those of you at home won’t likely notice any difference on the outside, it’s a whole new experience on the back end. I very nearly didn’t upgrade due to some issues with the new release and IIS. Thankfully, they were easily resolved by commenting a few lines of code. I’m also happy to report that my Flickr widget seems to work just fine in 2.5. Hopefully the new blog software will work out to be everything the old one was. However, if you do run into any issues on the site, be sure to drop me a note so I can get it fixed up. Thanks!

OS X update woes…

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So I’m working from home the other day and being a Wednesday I’m going through my normal process of installing patches and updates. I didn’t give a second thought to updating my iMac workstation at the office, but perhaps I should have. The next thing I knew, I couldn’t reconnect to my trusty Mac and when I got to the office my worst fears were realized. OS X was toast. OK, so that’s perhaps a little over dramatic, but the fact is I took great care to make sure I was installing the updates in a clean environment. I even rebooted and logged into a clean administrative account before starting the update process. I haven’t lost any data… yet, but as I spent almost an entire 8-hour day working on the problem. (to no avail) It’s looking more and more like I’m going to have to wipe the drive and reinstall. Tomorrow I’m going to backup my account data and give it one more shot before blowing it all away. What a waste. On the other hand, this gives me a real appreciation for the ability of Windows to roll back most updates.