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On November 12th, I aged a year, as I often do. I don't know what it is about November twelfths that age me so, but Jen was there to cheer me up. How did she do this? She combined two of my favorite things - zombies and cupcakes.

We had a free day in Washington, so CW and I drove east toward Lake Wenatchee State Park. We hiked up a mountain, and mostly hiked back down again. Pictures were taken and posted here for your amusement.

As you can see, I've got a new theme! "Not another one," I hear you say? Allow me to explain why it's great...

Last Tuesday we were in Seattle for some work, and we took time to visit Seattle's Pike Place Market - a haven for hippies, bakers, and crab-chucking fishmongers.

The Problem: I need to backup remote websites that have lots of files. I want to have incremental snapshots, so that I can have multiple backups of the same site without wasting lots of disk space. In other words, I want Apple's Time Machine for websites.

The Solution: I knew that the familiar rsync program could copy files from a server to my home computer. So I Googled and came across Michael Jakl's excellent Time Machine for every Unix out there. I've expanded his script and provided my results here, so that you can use it too. Read on for more info, and to download the script.

After messing around with lots of fun configuration, I think my email system is working properly. I'm using a combination of Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, RoundCube, and OpenLDAP to provide email services for johnwoltman.com. This lets me use a better webmail client than 1and1's craptastic "WebMail 2.0," and I can do do away with quotas because there's so few actual mailboxes.

On October 4th, EB and I flew to Salt Lake City, UT. We took pictures!

Dan found a spider and gave it some food. Hope you like bugs!

I'm working near Pittsburgh this week, and I went to the nearbyRaccoon Creek State Park.  My hike was about 3.5 miles, and included a great forest walk and a mineral spring.  I took a few pictures with my phone, take a look.

Yesterday, Jen and I got our day started off right with a hike.

I made a very basic website that consequently sat on the backburner for close to four years. It was for the dental laboratory my mother works at, Gold Dental Lab. I'm happy to say the site is finished, all one page of it! Gold Dental Lab is in Baltimore, MD, and they work on crowns, veneers, bridges, and whatever PFMs are. Their website is a single-page site, but there really isn't any more they want or need at this point.

Many of you know that I travel for a living, visiting exotic cities like Baton Rouge, LA, and Tulsa, OK. Yippee. But the years of toil pay off whenever we work somewhere interesting. in 2005 I was sent to Hawaii for work (and play), and on March 15th, 2010, I returned to Oahu with Jen in tow.

Jen and I wandered 'round Red Lion on Saturday. Enjoy the pictures!

October 17th, 2009 will be remembered as a day of infamy. Ann Brooks, Poet (or the French: Puaotesseme) delighted children and children's parents with choice selections from her recently published book.

The day after Christmas we went to Philadelphia to watch mewithoutYou perform a great set. I've posted a few photos and video clips for your enjoyment.