My 2013 goal was to complete the Goofy, and I meet my goal. I was nearly sure I would running the Goofy in 2014 as I felt I could have done better. Now Disney has announced the Dopey Challenge; 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon for a whopping 48.6 miles for 6 medals. I think I now have a new challenge. My room is booked.

I just love the underwater photos.

I started writing this post on the plane home after completing my first marathon in January. Then it sat in my draft folder, and sat some more; the time has come to finally publish. In 2012 I ran the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half along with the Walt Disney World Wine and Dine. The Chicago Rock ‘n Roll went far better than I could have expected, while the Wine & Dine went far worse than I could have imagined.

I could have used a script like this a few months back when I was trying to figure out what to do with my email hosting issues.

I must admit I haven’t said much in some time. I’ve nearly migrated my full computer usage from my Mini running OS X to my old MacBook running CrunchBang Linux, with a few modificatons. So far I’m liking the switch. Not because its free or any such ideology. This set up is must less computing intensive, and I feel like I’m living closer to the hardware. It a way I feel more conected with the technology.

I’ve been playing with Linux on two old Macbooks (4,1 and 2,1). The 4,1 system has Ubuntu while the 2,1 system is running Crunchbang. To me the stock Ubuntu install is a bit to much for me, and I much prefer the Crunchbang install. However I have EFI boot issues with the CB install. So here are a few quick links: http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/2012/11/16/efi-mode-boot-on-macbook31-with-debian/ http://www.kcore.org/?menumain=4&menusub=3 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UEFI_Firmware http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21510 http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2012/05/efi-stub-booting-without-bootloader.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=81120 http://wiki.

I was never a Facebook fan. I get the general point of the service to easily stay connected to friends and family. However maybe its because I’m not an overly social person, I never understood why so many people view the internet thru Facebook, or buy so heavily into the Facebook services. As a result I was more of a Twitter users. I’ve preferred Twitter to Facebook because it had an open feeling.

I found my new homescreen background.

Part of a crash log report that caused my iPhone not to sync last night: Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000100700000 VM Regions Near 0x100700000: MALLOC_TINY 0000000100600000-0000000100700000 [ 1024K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV --> STACK GUARD 0000000100700000-0000000100701000 [ 4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 1 Stack 0000000100701000-0000000100783000 [ 520K] rw-/rwx SM=COW thread 1 Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread