Had a difficult time authenticating to a newly installed MariaDB 10.1 instance on Debian 9 (Stretch) recently, wasting a couple of hours and some precious late-night sanity, so I wanted to document that here for myself later, and anyone else who might run across this. As part of a learning exercise I wanted to install […]
I ran a 5k this week, the 22nd Annual Lafayette Oatmeal Festival 5K. It’s a local race that I want to support, the start being about a mile from our house. 21:25 chip time which is 3 seconds faster than my turkey trot time from November. Considering the holidays and vacation I guess I’m ok […]
So I recently removed myself from most social media. Well, Facebook and Instagram. I haven’t missed them at all. I can still see Juiskie’s Insta and every now and again she’ll show me something on Facebook from the family, but otherwise those platforms are just a sink hole. But what I have done is opened […]
Another little workout today, 6x643m, each in around 2:35-ish. If that seems an odd distance, it is. So I had the idea to do 800 repeats today, and figured I’d hop over to Waneka Lake where there are mile markers. The trail around the lake is 1.2 miles, and well, I thought there were 1/4 […]
I ran pretty hard this morning, and rather enjoyed it. Feels good to hurt a little bit, feel some pain and want to quit, and not do it. Four miles total, with a two mile tempo to end it. Sounds so lame when I write it out, but you gotta start somewhere, right? Back in […]
For no good reason I wrote a little code to tweet out random posts from this very WordPress blog. I don’t tweet much anyway, and I just wanted to see something on my timeline, plus maybe get a little link love back to the Knob. It’s also interesting to go back in time and read […]
There was no reason for running a Turkey Trot, other than it was free and I could ride my bike to the race. We moved last year to a new house in a new town just outside of Boulder, and well, the Turkey Trot was only a couple miles away from us, so I rode […]
So I wrote a WordPress plugin to display photos from a public album on Google Photos. You can also get it on Github. You can see the result below, or over there –>, on the right sidebar, near the bottom. That’s all it does, it goes and gets the latest photos from an album in […]