The Fox Journals
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60 Hours Smoke Free – and counting.
Jan 28th
I am quickly approaching 60 hours without a cigarette. As time passes, it does seem to be easier. I keep hearing different times, from 3 days to 2 weeks on how long it takes for the nicotine addiction to leave the system. I'm hoping that it's only 3 days, and that the psychological addiction is what takes 2 weeks to break.
This is quite a life change for me. I was the guy that thought that I would be going to the grave with a cigarette in my mouth. Lately, with the number of deaths or close calls that I have seen of men my age due to medical conditions that are a direct result of smoking, it was time to make a change. I knew it was going to be difficult, but the last thing is die at a young age and leave behind my wife and kids. Up to this point in time, I'm fairly healthy and I want to keep it that way!
So the fight goes on. I'll be posting updates and milestones (which I think are important to me) as they happen. Updates can be found on my website (http://thefoxjournals.com) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/JWFoxJr) via Posterous (http://jwfoxjr.posterous.com).
foxdevshed.com has officially launched!
Nov 22nd
After hours of monkeying around with code and database connections at my webhost provider, I’m happy to announce the launch of foxdevshed.com. This site (powered by Redmine) will host all the projects that I am currently working on and planning. Feel free to create an account and take a look around. I am always looking for feedback and if anyone is interested in collaborating with me on any project, feel free to drop me a line.
Lack of a cd.. can cause a lot of pain!
Nov 22nd
So, I knew that this day was coming. I was trying to deploy some Ruby on Rails applications on my hosted website. Needless to say, things were not going that well, and I was running into continual issues with the deployment.
In an attempt to start over, it was necessary to clean up some files. So from the command line of my shell I executed:
[jwfoxjr@xxxxxxxx ~]$ rm -rvf *
(You really didn’t think I was going to give you me hostname did you?)
As all the files from my home directory (including the files that this site run on) I realize what I’ve done. I’m frantically stabbing Ctrl-C on the keyboard, but the damage was already done.
Suffice it to say, $15.00 dollars later, and 8 hour wait, and then a day of coding, I was able to get everything back, and the new sites that I was working on originally working.
Moral of the story? Even experienced administrators make mistakes. Always make sure you have a backup of your own, that way you don’t have to wait on others to restore one for you.
A long overdue posting.
Nov 12th
I think that the title of this post has said it all. I have spent way too much time away from the site while I have taken on new challenges in life. Coming back to my site today, I saw that it was in dire need of a makeover. After perusing many different themes, I finally found one that suited my fancy and applied it to the site.
The upcoming year is going to hold many changes with regards to this site. I’m hoping to be able to write some Ubuntu HOWTO’s, put up some snippets of Ruby on Rails code that I will be working on, and some different tips and tricks that I pickup from time to time.
Until then, enjoy!