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Monthly Archives September 2007

One-Year Weight-Loss Anniversary

Almost exactly a year ago, towards the beginning of October, 2006, I started losing weight.
I lost the first 10 or 15 pounds very quickly, in a month, without really trying. I had a variety of medical problems, and it’s amazing how quickly not being able to keep anything down (and other assorted digestive issues I [...]

Posted 30 September 2007 † schof § Autobiography § John Mark Schofield Meta § fatblogging ‡ Comments (3)

Another Trippet Ranch Trek

This morning I went on a five-mile hike with George and Krystal; we drove to Trippet Ranch, then hiked the fire road up to Eagle Rock. Back down via Musch Trail, where we saw some pretty things, and then lunch and margaritas at Abuelitas. A truly excellent Saturday morning.
All photos in the usual place.
UPDATE: Krystal’s [...]

Posted 29 September 2007 † schof § Hiking § John Mark Schofield Meta § Santa Monica Mountains § Topanga ‡ Comments (0)

Facebook (AKA the man) is holding me down!

Turns out Facebook won’t let me use my root at sudosu dot net address, because they believe real people don’t use addresses with “root” in them. Well, phooie to them!
Here’s my bug report: (with e-mail addresses slightly mangled for publication)
WHAT I DID:
1) On Edit Profile -> Contact page, selected “Add / Remove E-mails.
2) Hit “Change” [...]

Posted 27 September 2007 † schof § Broken § John Mark Schofield Meta § Web ‡ Comments (2)

Whew — A Five-Hour, Four-Way Support Call Gets Closed

One of Dakim’s [m]Power devices (located at a client site) wasn’t communicating with our servers correctly, and it took five hours and a bunch of people to correctly diagnose the problem.
On the call we had a member of the client’s IT staff (at the corporate office), a member of Dakim’s support staff (on-site at the [...]

Posted 26 September 2007 † schof § Computers § Dakim § Technical Support ‡ Comments (0)

Rainy Topanga

This is the view from my front door. I can barely see across the canyon. Rain FTW!

Posted 21 September 2007 † schof § Photos § Santa Monica Mountains § Topanga ‡ Comments (1)

Finally Posted My Resume

I obtained my last two jobs through people who already knew the quality of my work — so I haven’t had to update my resume in years. But now seems like a good time to have it up-to-date (and findable by Google) so I’ve just put my resume up on www.sudosu.net.

Posted 06 September 2007 † schof § Autobiography § John Mark Schofield Meta ‡ Comments (0)