January 7, 2010 at 4:48 pm · Filed under Ramblings
It’s amazing what you can do with services like Amazon’s EC2 these days. Why run a server at home or a local copy when you can fire up an instance on Amazon and pay cents to use it. It also makes it easy to test server configs, practice sys-admin skills, etc. Screw something up, just restart a new instance.
I just started up an instance to do some scratch development on.
I’m configuring an instance with the tools I want on it, configured the way I want.
I save the AMI and it’s always there for me to use. I can hack some code and not worry about affecting other people like I would on a shared host environment.
It would also make a great teaching environment. I wonder if any schools are using it to give students their own servers to play with.
June 28, 2008 at 6:54 pm · Filed under Ramblings, Running
The month isn’t quite over yet but it’s a good month. I might run my highest mileage yet this month. Previous high was 118 in January and I’m at 111 with 2 more days to go. I’m thinking 120 is a nice number to reach. Runs have been pretty good, getting faster just by running a lot and no real speed work. If my progress keeps up, I should be running my easy runs in the mid to high 8’s by the end of the year. That’s exciting stuff, we’ll see if my prediction holds true at the end of the year.
June 8, 2008 at 6:03 pm · Filed under Ramblings, Running
Finished up the week with 34 miles and 6 days of running. New records for both.
June is starting off well.
June 1, 2008 at 9:45 pm · Filed under Running
May was a good running month, 115 miles for May. Almost caught up to my 100 miles a month goal with 497.5 miles total for the year.
I’m pretty sure I’ll catch up and surpass my goal next month.
May 1, 2008 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Running
I broke 100 miles in March and stayed ahead of my 100 mile a month goal.
April was a different story though, having family in town and spending a week in Paris derailed me from my goal. Though I did manage to run 71 miles in April even though I didn’t run for 2 whole weeks.
The break was nice though and I think it actually made me a faster taking some time off.
I’m at 388 miles for the year as of today and I’m pretty sure I’ll break 500 by the end of May and then I’ll be back on track with my goal!
February 29, 2008 at 2:56 pm · Filed under coding
Notes for myself.
To grep for a tab in bash.
Ctrl-v, TAB key to insert the tab on the command line.
Works with other characters as well.
In emacs, Ctrl-q, char key.
Found this out here.
http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/37005/0/
February 26, 2008 at 11:39 pm · Filed under Ramblings, Running
I’m not making my 100 miles this month but it’s a good thing I banked some miles last month. Just broke 200 miles for the year and I have a few days left this month. It was a tough month overall. I was sick for about a week, it’s a short month and there’s been a lot of stuff going on.
I’m pretty proud with myself that I’ve been keeping this up though.
300 miles, here I come..
January 27, 2008 at 12:28 am · Filed under Ramblings, Running
The first month of the new year isn’t over yet and I’ve already revised my goals. New goal is to run 100 miles a month.
I’m off to a good start passing my 100th mile this month today on a nice 7 mile run and I still have 5 days to go.
I’ve been running pretty consistently for the last 6 months now, slowing ramping up the mileage.
I went from 36 miles total in September to about 100+ this month.
If I can keep up the 100+ miles a month for the rest of the year, it’ll make me happy.
January 1, 2008 at 12:21 am · Filed under Ramblings, Running
I’ve never made new year resolutions before. I never saw the point, if you want to change yourself, why wait until the new year. I understand why people do it though, it gives them a point of reference that’s easier than picking some arbitrary date though I also believe that’s why most new year resolutions fail. If you really wanted to change, you probably would have done it already or started on that path. Waiting until the new year is just procrastinating.
Having said that, I do have some goals for the new year, all running related.
I’d like to run 600-1000 miles this year and I’d like to run a marathon.
December 2, 2007 at 9:04 pm · Filed under Ramblings, Running
Broke the double digit barrier today with a 10 mile run. The run felt great, but I felt awful about 30-45 minutes after the run. I think I need to start fueling on my long runs. I was feeling light headed and nauseated after my run until I ate something. Then I felt fine again.
My long runs have been feeling great, after about 5-6 miles, it feels like I’m on autopilot.
My legs feel good, I run slow enough to keep my heart rate down and I finish my runs feeling good except for the light headed thing but I think that’s just because I’m low on blood sugar.
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