{"id":97,"date":"2007-04-20T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:52:29","slug":"changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Quite a bit has happened in the recently mentioned interlude.&nbsp; I doubt there are many<a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=240,height=160,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/amyj\/sets\/72157600051981271\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/layer8.typepad.com\/layer_8\/images\/2007\/04\/20\/noraapr07.jpg\" title=\"Noraapr07\" alt=\"Noraapr07\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" \/><\/a> people reading this who don&#8217;t already know most of this either from meatspace communications or <a href=\"http:\/\/amyj.typepad.com\/amyj\/\">other sources<\/a>, but here&#8217;s a quick overview (in order from big and old news through to the smaller and more recent):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The startup I&#8217;ve called my day job (and often my night and weekend job, too) since co-founding it over a decade ago got acquired around the start of the year.&nbsp; I now work for the acquiring company, in what I am still optimistic will be a good arrangement.<\/li>\n<li>Our family has grown by 33% &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/amyj\/sets\/72157600051981271\/\">new arrival<\/a> (Nora) is adorable, and rapidly approaching 3 months of age<\/li>\n<li>Ben (kid #1) is awesome.&nbsp; He&#8217;s still a toddler, so sometimes that awesomeness is hidden under, well, toddler-ness.&nbsp; &nbsp;Seeing him turn into a big person and seeing Nora start (in Ben&#8217;s words: &quot;she&#8217;s like a little person!&quot;) gives me this motivation and perspective that makes pretty much anything else OK.<\/li>\n<li>After years of using the now-defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/cardhouse.com\/otto\/\">otto,<\/a> and about a year of having no viable whole-house digital music solution, I&#8217;ve switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampache.org\/\">ampache,<\/a> and so far am quite pleased.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m consolidating home computing resources.&nbsp; The main file-server here now has over 1TB of useable raid-5, and everything that can be a virtual machine is.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s springtime, and my bonsai are gradually coming out of dormancy.&nbsp; We had a strange winter here, weather wise, with some very warm followed by insanely cold.&nbsp; I&#8217;m a bit concerned that there may be some fallout, in terms of tree-death, though it&#8217;s still too soon to tell.&nbsp; Particularly troubling right now is the maple forest I planted just last year &#8212; out of 8 trees (2 planting groups), 2 have swelling buds, 6 don&#8217;t.&nbsp; On a bonsai note, I realized a few months ago that a server crash over the summer resulted in the loss of quite a few notes I&#8217;d written in the form of an internal (to the home network) bonsai blog.&nbsp; Bummer.<\/li>\n<li>I have, for reasons not interesting enough to go into, switched my primary desktop computing environment to a windows system for the first time since windows for workgroups in 1994.&nbsp; This is much more a reflection of the realities of the microsoft-opoly in the business world than any sort of negative commentary on the mac.&nbsp; All other things being neutral, I&#8217;d still prefer a mac desktop \/ linux backend world, though I think I really am OS agnostic at this point (I&#8217;m even trying to get an ancient laptop wirelessly net-booting FreeBSD for a dining-room kiosk).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m hoping to take the day off today, and am planning on un-wiring \/ re-wiring some trees, taking a bide ride with Ben, going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeybargym.com\/\">gym<\/a> with the whole family, and starting what I hope will be a relaxing long weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ttyl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a bit has happened in the recently mentioned interlude.&nbsp; I doubt there are many people reading this who don&#8217;t already know most of this either from meatspace communications or other sources, but here&#8217;s a quick overview (in order from big and old news through to the smaller and more recent): The startup I&#8217;ve called <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=97'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}