February 12, 2008: Lot’s of Writing Today

Oreo made it all last evening and then all night without seemingly feeling ill at all. He was clearly very tired having missed one entire night of sleep and then having to go to daycare all day. This is going to be a really long week for him as he is going to have missed …

Linux Memory Monitoring

As a Linux System Administrator one question that I get asked quite often is to look into memory issues. The Linux memory model is rather more complex that many other systems and looking into memory utilization is not always as straightforward as one would hope, but this is for a good reason that will be …

February 10, 2008: Oreo Isn’t Feeling Well

Dominica decided that she was so close to finishing the entire first season of Dexter in a single sitting that she decided to just make a run for it and wrapped up around two in the morning. Oreo got me up in the middle of the night, as expected, for a walk. This always happens …

February 9, 2008: Working All Day

Oreo was “featured” in an episode of 60 Seconds.  See if you can spot him. I woke up early this morning. At a quarter after five I woke up and found myself not to be sleepy at all. I tried going back to sleep but had to luck. So I got up at five thirty …