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Preface: I wrote this pretty drunk, so please take the following with a grain of salt

I've learned a lot about relationships lately. Chief among the things I've learned, is what I don't like about myself. It's a strange paradigm, but one worth examining: Why is it so much easier to see the flaws of others in our relationships with them, than it is to see the flaws in ourselves?

Melissa and I went to Tennessee for a wedding of our friends, Taylor and Jason. We had the chance to catch up with a bunch of friends. We managed to evade trouble. We also nearly died. Overall, it was a really good time.

I always act too quickly. I was at home the other night, learning up on microformats, and realized that I needed to update my site in order to take advantage of the support I can get for them, with Drupal 6. Instead of doing the migration via a development site, I immediately started changing the live site. When things went south, my site was down.

As promised , last night I went to see the Nile show at the Haven. I would write about this on my music startup, Florida Death Metal , but my buddy Bender has been screwing around about getting my mockups done, so I'm holding off on putting any more content there for while. So, I've got my shepards pie and another Guinness, and I'm ready to tell you tales of Metal-Lore.

You know you're a big time blogger when you get phone calls asking when you're gonna update your blog. Thanks Mom! Things have been really busy for me lately, so I haven't had the chance to write anything for awhile. So, here I am writing with a Guinness and some shepards pie to keep things nice and smooth. Unfortunately, Melissa's listening to the 'Adult Alternative' music channel. grrrr.

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Melissa and I got away for the weekend to celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary. After some indecision on our part, we decided to go to Savannah, GA. It's not too far of a drive, but it's still far enough to feel like a vacation. We took off Friday from work (thanks dudes!) so we could spend as much time away as possible.

 

The drive was pretty uneventful. It was about three and a half hours up I-95. Not too much to talk about there.

We stayed at the Windham at Wingate. It's a budget business hotel right off of 95. It wasn't exceptionally nice, but the staff was really friendly. They also had free wireless internet, which always makes me smile.

Thank you dear god. A million times, thank you.

I can't begin to express the jubilation I'm feeling after the New York Giants have pulled off what's arguably the biggest upset in sports history. Nobody gave the Giants a chance to win this game. Luckily for me, thats the sort of thing that legends are made upon. I was horrified the last time the Giants played the Patriots. Tonight, I'm ecstatic

I managed to get to Florida Creatives last night, and I'm really glad I did. I met some very interesting people, with some pretty cool ideas. I also got to chat with some old friends, which is always cool.

The first person I met, was Stephen Steck, former Persient Emeritus of WMFE , the local affiliate for NPR. Stephen has an idea for a startup, and was interested in meeting the local developer talent for ideas on how to approach his idea. Stephen is a very smart guy, and after some talking, that was very apparent.

My last tutorial about integrating Trac with Eclipse got me thinking about the fundamentals of SVN. The real power of Trac lies in it's ability to document and 'trac' software development via SVN, a tool most developers use already. So, I figured a tutorial on how to setup SVN as a module on Apache on a Windows Server was a good idea. There's plenty of documentation on how to do this on *nix boxes, but not so much on Windows.