As I mentioned many times one of the things we (my wife and I) enjoy is traveling. So this is a little late going up but our latest trip was to San Francisco, this was our first trip to the city. we had been to San Diego which is a little further south in California [...]
Archive for April, 2010
April 22nd, 2010
San Francisco Travel Pictures
Posted in General Life, Travel 
Tags: Alcatraz, California, Golden Gate, San Francisco, Travel 
No Comments »April 20th, 2010
Nagios and Network Monitoring
My first introduction to Nagios was about 5 years ago while working on a large deployment project in Phoenix for the airport. We had initially been using what’s up gold to monitor devices. But this had been set up by our predecessors and no one from their group who was working on site had the [...]
Posted in technology Tags: Centreon, Device Monitoring, Nagios, Network Monitoring, Unix, Windows No Comments »April 17th, 2010
Windows Server 2008 and service accounts for Scheduled Tasks
while trying to migrate a scheduled task from a windows server 2003 machine to a 2008 server ran into a little issue. for some reason when I would create the task and try to change the user account to use, it would allow me to browse the network and select the account but when I [...]
Posted in General Life Tags: scheduled tasks, Server, Service accounts, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 No Comments »April 15th, 2010
Utorrent better than Vuze(Azureus)
Well as you may have read in my other post boxee-beta-and-the-apple-tv, I am an avid user of torrents and appleTV to watch them using Boxee. and recently I switched from Vuze to Utorrent as my bit torrent client as a result of the functionality enhancements. it is great given the fact that unlike many of [...]
April 10th, 2010
Housing, Buy vs Rent? the eternal question!
Well as many people in Montreal are getting into the season of Apartment Hunting now as this is the time when you either need to renew your lease or start looking for a new place. After living in many places around the world over the last few years it is a curious ritual, that I [...]
April 9th, 2010
Back in the Exercise Groove
Well with everything going on lately staying in shape and exercising has been low on the priority list. But now we have decided to stop the excuses and get back into the routine. Right now the plan is to exercise in the mornings before work. So the first challenge to be able to accomplish this [...]
Posted in General Life, Health & Fitness, sports Tags: Exercise, fitness, Health & Fitness, P90X No Comments »April 7th, 2010
Sorry! Not That Ricky Martin
As Many who have arrived here will quickly find out I am not the Ricky Martin that made the announcement of coming out of the Closet and openly Admitting he is a homosexual. I think many people have found my blog as a result of his announcement and doing a search on Google or any [...]
