I just finished watching the latest episode of The Totally Rad Show, a weekly video podcast. If you haven’t checked them out, please do so now. For this end of year episode they named their top 5 favorite movies, games, and TV shows. This got me thinking hard about my top 5’s of 2007. Here I list my top picks in movies, TV, video games, books, songs and comics.

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This is the pictorial story of my bout with cellulitis.

Friday, November 9th, I woke up around 4am shivering uncontrollably. I got up and got more blankets and went back to sleep. I woke up later in the morning to go to class. My right leg was hurting badly. It felt like I had pulled a muscle. I also felt nauseas, had a high fever, and also still had chills and shivering. I decided to skip classes, and just sleep all day.

The next morning I woke up and my leg still hurt. I had trouble walking and noticed that my leg was developing what looked like a rash. I eventually went to the Emergency Room, and this picture was taken shortly after I got done.

They diagnosed me with cellulitis, prescribed me some pain medication and Bactrim antibiotics, drew a blue line on my leg, and sent me home.

This photo album is of my leg slowly healing.

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VMware is recognized by many as the virtualization leader in the technology industry. They have now announced that they will be releasing a majority of VMware Tools as open source software as part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. VMware Tools is a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and improve management of VMware virtual machines. The source code is available today to enable Linux vendors to integrate open-sourced VMware Tools into upcoming versions of their operating systems.

“We are very pleased with VMware’s demonstrated ability to work with the open source community. Open Virtual Machine Tools streamlines the process of providing ISVs with an edition of Ubuntu optimized for virtual appliances that follows the JeOS concept of ‘Just Enough Operating System’ and allows us to provide end users of the Ubuntu operating system with a compelling out-of-the-box experience. We look forward to the debut of Open Virtual Machine Tools within a future release of Ubuntu.”

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project

VMware’s move to open source will prove to be important in making more efficient virtual machines and getting more people to use virtualization products.

via VMworld 2007 Press Release

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Today I have a tip about running 2 separate physical servers behind the same NAT using the same public IP, and how we can work around this with Apache’s virtual hosts.

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Today I had the task of installing a development server running the Django Python framework for one of our web developers. I learned a few things and I figured a quick tutorial might help someone else out. None of this covers new ground, but perhaps another telling of the story will help someone out there.

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This summer I had the opportunity to fly to San Francisco, CA and spend a week there. My roommate Tyler received a student scholarship to attend WWDC, Apple’s huge developer conference. My other rooommate, Dylan, and I tagged along.

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Apple initiates a worldwide battery recall, and I don’t heed their warnings. Battery goes on to expand and break apart. Pics or it didn’t happen? I’ve got your pics right here.

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Yesterday I went to install Wordpress 2.1.2 (the latest version as of this writing) and I discovered that Wordpress now requires MySQL 4. There isn’t a lot of information on the internet about upgrading MySQL in a Plesk installation. These are the steps I took to upgrade my Fedora Core 2 Plesk installation.

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Some of the pictures we took this year during the Christmas Season. Click on them to view more detailed information and comments.

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