Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.https://brentnorris.net/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/635/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/635/Your controllers get their time from the server, so if you setup a new server and don't update the timezone from say Pacific to Central, all your controllers will be reporting behind by two hours. The fix is to update the timezone on the server,…Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:48:03 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/545/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/545/Our son Kyle Austin Norris arrived Tuesday morning. He was seven pounds fourteen ounces and twenty one inches long. Pauline did great again with the whole process and is recovering well. Julie has given him a lot of kisses and everything is going well.Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:48:37 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/541/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/541/For Pauline's birthday we ended up going to Huber's Orchard in Moonlight Indiana. Dad and I took several pictures while we were there and it seems like Julie had a really good time. We have also had her in her little pool some trying to…Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:14:10 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/536/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/536/P and I purchased a new car yesterday. We got a Chevy Traverse from Havey Ellis Chevy in Columbia . They did a great job of getting the car for us and also for working around a problem with my GM card. I don't have…Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:22 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/533/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/533/I had previously posted on how we were doing on paying off our house. Well today I went to the bank and paid off the remainder of the loan. We are done.Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:10:26 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/524/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/524/lvl-5-the-lost-blade This set of encounters went pretty well with our group. There were a few hitches, but everyone made it through alive and only one of the group really had any chance of dying. I have talked to a couple of them and they acted…Fri, 29 May 2009 12:16:35 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/527/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/527/For the last year or so I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition with some people around here. It started out as some of my friends just needing a person to fill in, but became an almost weekly thing. I had forgotten how…Fri, 29 May 2009 12:11:55 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/521/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/521/Our spring break fell right before Easter this year, and I decided that I would take a few days off this year. Julie and I hung out Thursday and then Pauline took Friday off as well and we all goofed around the house. Sunday came…Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:34:06 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/514/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/514/We had a pretty bad ice storm here a few weeks ago. It didn't really hurt us much in our part of the county, but in the northern part of the county it caused a lot of damage. It ended up shutting school down for…Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:27:30 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/507/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/507/http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/12/autism.vaccines/?iref=mpstoryview Federal courts ruled today that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and Autism. Something that is easily proven if you look at the science on record for the vaccine and stop listening to people like Jenny McCarthy (even as hot as she…Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:52:10 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/504/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/504/It has been a bit since I posted pictures of Julie so I thought I would link these up here. Most of these are just random pictures of her. These two are just her playing with a pair of glasses off of one of Pauline's…Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:52:27 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/498/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/498/It is amazing to me the difference between the car maker request for money and the banks request for money. The difference in the amount of money is the first thing. The car manufacturing companies are asking for a fraction of the money that the…Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:43 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/495/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/495/Just a bunch more pictures of Julie's time in the leaves and at the park.Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:54:10 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/481/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/481/All I could hear at the end of this is "How many Communists do you know of in the government, Senator McCarthy?" It is amazing how far we have come to be right back where we were. Replace the word communist with terrorist and you…Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:07:02 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/479/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/479/A couple weekends agao we got some good pictures of Julie at the farm and with the 56. I thought I would post them up here. I think the last one is great. It should be entered into a contest or something, because it could…Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:50:08 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/468/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/468/i have been setting up the Teleyapper Nerdvittles Script at work on our Asterisk server and was really surprised that there was no web interface for putting entries into it. Since they recommended using phpadmin to enter numbers and I knew that would never fly…Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:47:43 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/464/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/464/While Pauline and I were watching the Colbert Report the other night he had a guest on speaking about the NothingButNets.net charity and how 10 dollars would deliver a net to people in Africa so that they could sleep without getting bitten by mosquitoes and…Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:59:51 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/461/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/461/More talking about our house payments and also about a housing project that is going to be coming up near our house. Don't jump unless that is what you are interested in.Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:40:25 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/456/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/456/I thought I had already put this up here, but a search didn't show it. If you need the USB drivers for it here is a set. jvc_gr-dv500u_xpThu, 28 Aug 2008 23:17:57 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/451/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/451/I guess I will attribute the lack of posting here to that. Things have pretty much just been static around here. Julie is getting bigger, smarter, more active, but there haven't been any crazy changes. She says a few single words every now and then,…Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:30:54 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/443/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/443/Julie had her first birthday last Friday and her first birthday party on Sunday. Things went really well after a minor error on when everyone was supposed to be at the house. I think Julie had a good time with the people being there and…Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:33:51 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/442/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/442/Well this year was my first Father's Day ever. "Julie" got me a great card and some great gifts. It is funny, but it does really feel cool to have a day "earmarked" for you. I guess it kind of felt like a Birthday, except…Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:52:16 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/437/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/437/Not a whole lot to say about it. It has been a great time for the last two years and the years before. I never had a doubt we would make it this far.Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:29:51 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/435/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/435/A couple of weeks ago Pauline and I headed down to Nashville for Laura and Ethan's wedding. Ethan had ask me to be a groomsman so we got there for the rehersal and dinner afterwards. It was great to be there and see people from…Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:46:13 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/433/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/433/I uploaded some new pictures of Julie from this spring. Julie's First Spring Some of my favorites: There are also some new quick ways to get to the pictures. On the right there are some new blocks. The first one is just a random image…Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:03:35 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/417/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/417/Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:05:46 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/411/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/411/This is probably old news to a lot, but I just wanted to say that I thought this was a great speech, that does a really great job of showing a lot of sides of the issue. It also attempts to get people to realize…Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:30:13 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/410/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/410/This first video should have the "cute dogs close to the camera" music in the background, but I thought it was kind of funny.Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:51:05 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/409/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/409/I recently spoke with a friend of mine that I ran into at TJ Max. She said that she was intending on voting republican in the next election and that she supported the war because she believed if they weren't fighting over there, then they…Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:14:29 GMThttps://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/407/https://brentnorris.net/blog/archives/407/It seems like here at work we have quite a little collection of Engrish examples. Lamar brought this one in the other day and I thought I would share. Engrish Remote ManualTue, 05 Feb 2008 18:59:46 GMT