Month: January 2007

another day at a time

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I’d count the hours between drinks, then in sobriety I started counting the days since my sobriety date. I never thought I’d last 30 days in rehab, then I never thought I’d last the first week out of rehab, but a day at a time and a meeting every day I did.
My little Sobriety Calculator now puts me just over the 2750 day mark, a day at a time. I only comment this minor personal milestone as I would never have thought it would have been possible and I’m grateful I got to see the second half of my twenties and am rapidly progressing through the first few years of my 30’s. (Does time get quicker the older you get?)
None of it would have been possible without the love I have and continue to be shown in the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Jinzora – Yay – finally found a decent media server

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Having searched around for a decent free web based media server to stream my music to my laptop I stumbled across Jinzora
It has a natty web-front-end to my music collection, manages the collection via id3 tags and will even pull down images of the artists, artist bio’s and even lyrics. The playlists can either be saved as .m3u and played via your local music player (winamp worked for me) and streamed from the server, also a the free XSPF flash player can be used to keep it all in your browser.

Jinzore

Unfortunately the webapps-experimental gentoo overlay is a little out of date so had to cobble together my own ebuild that seems to work ok for my server.

If you’ve got a big old music collection and want to stream it from a website or home server I’d certainly recommend taking a look at the Jinzora demo I tested it on a linux LAMP setup but it should work on windows IIS or Apache too.

WordPress 2.1 Ella

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Very quick “10 min” upgrade to the latest and greatest version of wordpress went smoother than a babies arse.

Should be mostly transparent to the presentation of the site but makes using wordpress as a CMS rather easier. All the plugins I use are still working too, which is a bonus.

Fabulous job by the WP team who produce this rather excellent free software.

Internet Gems

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More little gems from the internet sent to me by my buddy Damon that help get me through my latest bout of insomnia.

The Time Magazines “Best Photos of 2006” have some very powerful disturbing, inspiring and awesome images.

Time magazine photo of the year 2006

Also check out this funny and rather thought provoking short animation “Hallucii.”

And for the bizarre tastes of pet lovers the internet caters for there is the “Cat Stroller” and the “Delux Cat Stroller”
Cat Stroller

Delux Cat Stroller

Happy New Year and Now is a Time to be careful.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year to the Internet and Recovery peeps, this must have been the quietest Christmas Holiday I’ve ever had and I must say that the break has been much needed. Contrast that to last years Christmas Ghana trip, for my brothers wedding, it has certainly been less eventful and far colder but good all the same.

Passing on a message that was given me in my early days which was to be careful post holiday period. Particularly after my first few Christmases in recovery I found, having had my defences up against the excesses of the period around me, January was quite a comedown. There also seems a higher than normal rate of relapse after Christmas, so I will, as usual, up my meetings for a bit and get back into a regular routine.

Keep Safe and Happy.