Archive for July, 2006

Hosting Services, sshfs and cryptsetup

Monday, July 24th, 2006 | 07:30

I’m moving hosting to a provider I have less control over. I don’t believe admins there will peak at my files, but the general rule of thumb is to not allow anything that is not permitted, and, since I’m using that box as a off-site backup of my local files, I want all my [...]

Fireworks for 2006

Thursday, July 6th, 2006 | 06:28

Cleveland’s 4th of July fireworks again, from the roof of a building in the west Flats. You know, fireworks photos more or less look the same, after you’ve seen, say, a dozen or two of them. The photos also aren’t particularly good representations of what you see with the naked eye: exposure times [...]

Niagara Falls and Toronto

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 | 08:27

Grace had one last vacation day left for the academic year ending in June, and we took advantage of a post-call Friday and the vacation day on Monday to go to Niagara and Toronto. Here are the photos:

One day, I’ll combine all this with a Google Maps route-marker, but the verbal description will have [...]