I haven’t updated in a while, here is the blitz:
Running – I managed to somehow get a minor muscle strain in my back which took me out of running for about 10 days (possibly by overdoing in on the Wii Fit ‘Super Hula Hoop’ game). I came back with a 6 miler @ Conewago on Saturday with the gang, took Sunday off, ran 5.5 miles with Jon, Tex, and Cali on Monday, and then ran 3 miles with Nate tonight. The Geisinger Humdinger race is coming up in about a week and a half. Hopefully I’ll be able to get in five or six solid runs in before then. I definitely won’t be able to beat my time from last year, but I will be happy if I am able to push hard for the entire length of the race.
Finance – mint.com has added some nice new features, including being able to track off-line assets like houses, vehicles, or just accounts that can’t be accessed automatically. They also prettied up the user interface a bit.
Zombie Killing - I started playing the video game Left4Dead with some friends online, which has been a lot of fun.
Programming – I’ve been checking out a new Java SDK for LDAP from the Unbound ID folks. If you have been using the ancient Netscape/Mozilla LDAP SDK before, give Unbound’s a shot, it has a lot of interesting features.
Solaris – if you are troubleshooting anything relating to tcp listen drops, check out the ndd -get /dev/tcp tcplistenhash command. One quirk I noticed was that if you aren’t root, it has some limit to the frequency you can run the command. I assume the command is a bit expensive and they are trying to prevent a DOS attack, but the observability is excellent.