Here we go again. Almost 2011. The site has had some major changes again. I am no longer running on one VPS. The company that originally hosted the VPS was sold, the new company did not seem to care about over-selling their space. My VPS kept crashing due to no physical disk space available. My site was using less than 5GB of the 20GB my plan was supposed to include. So I moved. I am now running on not one, but two VPS’. [...]
Dec 302010
Apr 062010
Anyone out there with a child having a hard time learning to ride a bike? Our son spent almost a year and a half bouncing from one training wheel to the next. He just never could keep the bike up. We tried all kinds of things, but nothing seemed to work. Then we found out about balance bikes. Some research later and I had narrowed it down to either the Trek Float or the GlideBikes GoGlider. The main reason I settled on [...]
Apr 062010
First day back from work after our family’s Easter Campout. We had a great time out at Cedar Hill State Park. Three of us, my two brother in laws and myself, set out early on Thursday to get things set up. However, we didn’t make it to camp until mid afternoon. We got the tents set up, and then sprayed them down with some water sealer since the forecast called for rain on Friday. (Only some minor leaks, two [...]
Apr 052010
For the last year and a half or so Joshua has been trying to learn how to ride a bike. We got a starter bike for him from Walmart with training wheels and set off. After several months of that not working we tried this balance bar thing. It attaches like training wheels, but comes up and looks kind of like a huge sissy bar. The parent’s are supposed to be able to hold on while the kid learns his balance. Six months [...]
Feb 122010
For the last week we have had the fun of staying at a Hotel in Irving. My father-in-law and Christa have been hosting their 2010 event in Irving. I took the week off of work to help out. We have the new baby, and most of the time I was running Joshua back and forth to school, and holding Aidan up in the hotel room. The week started off with me hauling Joshua back and forth to school. He would get [...]
Feb 022010
Over the last few days I started digging into how to optimize my VPS and WP Blog for speed. I am normally a MS guy, I have been supporting MS Windows and IIS at work for more then 10 years. Optimizing the OS and IIS for speed comes pretty easily, on Windows. I don’t have a lot of experience with Linux. So I started out by trying to map the different components. OS – Linux Kernel Apache PHP WP MySQL For the OS [...]
Jan 262010
Ok… So I downloaded a new app on my Pre that should let me update my Blog. So far so good. It can log in, and pull down my entries. Now lets see if it can submit entries. And with pictures too.. Just some random pictures of Joshua’s soccer cone spiders that he made after a practice: BTW, it is called Poster. It is in the App Catalog, and here is their site.
Jan 252010
Ok, so I have plenty of Ryobi’s 18v One+ Tools, and I recently saw this at Home Depot while browsing through the new Tek4 display. I bought this camera not for me, but for my 5 year old son. You see he loves taking pictures. For his fourth birthday I bought him the cheapest digital camera I could find at Best Buy. It was a little black and green 4.0mp (I think) camera. He likes to be able to look at the back [...]
Jan 232010
Well, the first non site update related post, but it is still an update post. On 12/31/2009 at 10:10am CST we had a new addition the family. Little Aidan Wayne Trantham was born. 7.3lbs and 19.5″ long: He is doing great and all ready gowing like a weed; on 1/4/2010 (just 4 days old) and the Dr’s office measured him at 21″ a gain of 1.5″. This kid is growing… Long, tall, and skinny. His older brother is going to have cut him [...]
Jan 232010
Imagine that… I am actually updating again. Well, I think the other project, cooptree.com is dead for now. I have not heard from the developer since before Thanksgiving, it is like he fell off the face of the planet. Looking over the forums at TNG it looks like the Joomla plugin developers have made some headway. It almost has all of the issues resolved that I wanted to have working. If they keep going I may just implement it here and forget about [...]
