http://justindow.com Another day in the life of... well, me! Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:45:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago, my websites were no longer available.  Without any explanation or reason from my webhost, any visit to justindow.com or dowhaus.com resulted in a weird "This website is suspended" page. I couldn't figure out a reason for this, since I could still log in to my account ... http://justindow.com/2009/03/06/new-server-new-theme-database-troubles/ Meet Maeby and Lucy. They were born on September 16th, 2008, so they are 6 weeks old today. They are super friendly and don't seem to be afraid of anything. They are busily exploring our new apartment and trying to find ways to cause trouble. We had been looking for ... http://justindow.com/2008/10/27/meet-maeby-and-lucy/ Well it has been a long time since I've posted to the old blog. And although I have had plenty to rant about lately, it seems I haven't had the motivation to actually rant about it. So here is a non-ranting post. I have great news. I got married last ... http://justindow.com/2008/08/15/married/ It has been quite a while since I updated my blog. That is mostly because I've been quite busy lately, completely re-organizing my life. At the beginning of February I moved from the beautiful city of Munich, Germany to the small town of Vacaville, California, which is somewhere between Sacramento ... http://justindow.com/2008/02/26/back-in-the-states-2/ Note: This is a long boring blog post. It details my frustration of getting this all to work. If you don't care and just want to get to where I tell you exactly how to successfully install Linux on this computer, click here. I haven't done a tech post in quite ... http://justindow.com/2007/12/18/linux-on-compaq-presario-f560us/ I had a couple of pleasant surprises the past few days. A good friend of mine traveled all the way to Munich from Amsterdam to visit me on my birthday, and the following day a nice dinner and birthday cake was made for me. Yesterday we were walking ... http://justindow.com/2007/10/28/gluhwein-and-grog/ There is a 9-year-old kid blogging about his life here. He started a project of interviewing a bunch of different people, with the goal of interviewing 100 different people around the world, famous and not, so that he can then publish a book with the interviews. I volunteered ... http://justindow.com/2007/10/15/my-interview/ My good friend Luke P. has started a Travel Blog since his arrival in Munich as a collaborative blog among our group of friends.  I've decided to post my travel experiences over there.  You can find it at http://besttravelblogevar.wordpress.com/. http://justindow.com/2007/09/22/travel-blog/ I drove by the Theresienwiese yesterday to check things out, and all the beer tents are up, the rides are set up, in fact they were testing one of the roller coasters as I drove by.  This means it is close. In fact, only two more days!!!  On Saturday morning ... http://justindow.com/2007/09/19/countdown-to-oktoberfest/ Before I moved to the States back in '96, I used to have a cat and was forced to leave it with a neighbor when I moved, since I think it would have been hard for it to adjust to a new environment. I had every intention of getting ... http://justindow.com/2007/08/15/meet-molly/