February 3, 2009: Hanging with Guybrush Threepwood

I was pretty tired this morning and slept in pretty late.  There was no sunshine this morning so Oreo was not itching to get up either.  Instead of sun today we had a day of pretty steady snowfall.  It snowed all day long. Dominica and Liesl ended up sleeping in until early in the afternoon.  …

February 2, 2009: Happy 15th Anniversary to the Ralstons

Wow, fifteen years.  I can’t believe that the Ralston’s wedding was fifteen years ago!  That is just crazy. Here is some serious xenophobia in northern Italy  – some cities are beginning to ban “foreign” foods claiming that only regional cuisine be allowed.  This is a slipperly slope since it is primarily a form of racism …

February 1, 2009: Productive Day

We have nothing much planned for today.  So after getting up this morning and everyone moving down to the living room I took over the morning Liesl schedule, helper with her exercises and tummy time and other activites, while Dominica got started on her first class at the O’Reilly School at the University of Illinois.  …

Installing Windows Server 2003 on Xen on Red Hat Linux 5

After being challenged several times during the process of installing Windows Server 2003 into a fully virtualized Xen environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) I decided that a quick tutorial for those of you who wish to install in exactly the same way would be helpful.  There are several …