Spring Break is Almost Over…
Break is almost over and it went way too fast. It seems like yesterday I was driving home from Cedar Falls. I didn’t get a whole lot done. I celebrated St Patricks Day in Des Moines and deployed the new Friendly Sons of St Patrick website. That was about it. Soon the semester will be over and I will need to find a summer job… I’ll probably end up being my current bosses network slave over the summer. I think I could pull it off… I would only need to drive to Cedar Falls twice a week. Since I can only work at UNI a max of 20 hours per week. I could work 2, 8 hour days and get enough money. I’m kind of looking forward to returning to UNI tomorrow. I don’t know why.
Links
Posted by Ryan in Personal, Site Development on March 18, 2009
I’ve had several comments regarding the use of the Course Links in the side bar. These are current classes that I am enrolled in at the University of Northern Iowa. The main reason for most of the links on this site are for my convenience.
So all of the links in the side bar are there because I go to those sites a lot, need them for work, or need them for class.
Getting a little greener with more web development.
Posted by Ryan in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009
With St. Patrick’s Day coming, I decided that a new website was in order. Check out the new informational site for the St Patrick’s Day parade in Des Moines, Iowa at http://www.stpatricksdayiowa.com
Warm weather and Cacti… in Iowa?
Posted by Ryan in Personal, Site Development on March 11, 2009
Looking at the weather forecast and it looks like St. Patrick’s Day is going to have a high of 50 and no snow. Thats not even the best part. The warmer weather is supposedly rolling in this Friday with temps in the 40s. Ok, ok, I know I’m not a weather man, but this is great news for us UNI students who finally get to have Spring Break next week.
Other than the weather, I really don’t have any great or important news for today, except I think I have finally finished my page on the installation of Cacti. Alright, most of you are probably going, “What the hell is Cacti?” You normal non-tech people may just want to ignore this.
Cacti is an RRD based monitoring solution. It uses SNMP to collect data from network devices such as computers, switches, routers, etc. and creates graphs based on the data it collects.
So some of you may have already noticed the “Cacti wiki” page and have been wondering, how am I suppose to add info to the wiki about Cacti if I don’t have editing access. Well, if you feel you need to add or change something on the wiki, register with the site and send me an email with what you want to add or change. Then I will make you a Wiki contributor, or if you just want to send me the additions I can add them my self. Registering with RyChannel.com will not mean you will get spammed all the time. I will probably never email you unless you email me first or I have a legit question to ask you about something you have contributed.
Spring break next week!
I am ready for this week to be over. Today I had my third Human Origins test. Thursday I have another Stats quiz, which shouldn’t be too difficult. You can tell that tensions are getting high around here and people are ready for a break.
Next week is also a very important holiday for my family, St. Patricks Day. We will be spending a couple days next week in Des Moines, preparing for the annual St Patricks Day parade. I will most like spend most of that morning on my dads bus (yes my dad owns a bus) in the parade. The weather doesn’t sound like it is going to be very good, from what I hear there is supposed to be snow. For some reason my late grandfather would have wanted it that way. He has been a big part of the St Patricks Day parade for many years.
For more information about the Des Moines St Patricks Day Parade, please visit http://www.geocities.com/stpatricksdayparade2000
The snow is back… greeeeat…
So when I woke up around noon today, it was wet outside and it may have even been raining. But that is really hard to tell when you’re inside.
Like I do every weekend I grabbed my dirty laundry and ran it downstairs to be washed. I came back upstairs (note: my blinds were closed in my room) and watched some television. When I went back out into the hall, I looked down the hall and saw the white stuff falling from the sky through the lounge window. I know if I would have actually paid attention to the weather forecast I wouldn’t be surprised. I went back into my room and this is what I saw out my window.
Rychannel.com Development
Posted by Ryan in Site Development on March 8, 2009
Rychannel.com has grown a little since its initial deployment after Christmas 08. It has gone from a totally homemade HTML site to something a little more professional looking. I’m not quite sure where I want my site to go. So I guess I will just have to start with me. Not that I have an ego or anything. I’m just not as creative when it comes to the web development experience that is required when setting up an HTML site. Before switching to the current WordPress install, I was considering Joomla.
So I made up my mind on whether to use Joomla or WordPress. To me, joomla just seemed a bit on the complicated side. Joomla is a great piece of software, if you want to take the time to learn it. I know some people that have created great looking sites, using joomla. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry. So far the wordpress setup process has been really easy. I’m not sure if I’m set on the current theme though. It seems with the current two column theme I will be filling the right column with widgets in no time. Readers will be scrolling way down to the bottom of the page just to see some of my other links. This isn’t my first wordpress blog that I’ve setup but it probably has the most effort put into it. My last wordpress has a very “Vistaish” look to it. Being a mac user, I didn’t think that was appropriate. Some of you may be familier with the featured WordPress “Pixed.” I very neat theme but like I said before, too vistaish.
Maybe I can figure out how to create my own theme. However I am not an artist by any means and much rather have someone else do the creative work. 
If there are other Widgets that you can recommend I would be more than happy to try them out.
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Cedar Falls
Saturday, Jul 31
Partly Cloudy
Currently: 85˚F
Feels Like: 89˚ F
Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 64˚
Tonight: 64˚
Sunset: 8:31 PM
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
weather feed courtesy of weather.com - thanks!