the second phase

So I’ve almost made it to the first recovery week. This week was full of plyo, arms and shoulders and yoga. I failed to do legs and back today due to issues and having to walk the dogs, so I ran 6 miles instead. I’ll do the workout tomorrow. Besides, I’ve got to get some runs in to compete with the Tiger and blow him out of the water this time!

Other then that, not much has been going on. I’ve been watching alot of DVD’s lately, mostly TV series. Right now I’m in the middle of Battlestar Galatica and I’m loving it. I’ve got alot of work stuff I’d like to talk about but nothing solid yet, so not really much of a point to it. We’re looking at some configuration management products, mostly OpsWare and Blade Logic. We’re going to be implementing some DNS architecture, LDAP, syslog, some virtual server stuff ( hopefully on VMWare ESX ) and a bunch of other things. I really need to take some time to write up some tutorials from the notes I’ve gathered.

I’m still studying some of the JFS2 specs but haven’t had much time with the P90X and everything.

Anyways, my fam is coming down soon for Easter and I’ll be busy with them, maybe I’ll have some updates soon. I’ve updated the P90X Log with my last few workouts, so go check it out. 30 day pictures coming soon!

Ok, so I skipped a few days of updating the site, got a little busy. I rocked it up this week, with my only failure being a missed Kenpo session. I went golfing on Saturday and was sun-burnt and exhausted afterwards and promptly took a nap. So, with the decision of Kenpo vs Yoga, I chose to do Yoga. My reasons behind this being that Yoga, for me, is much harder than Kenpo, provides alot more flexibility and burns calories, while Kenpo is pretty much a cardio workout, which I can get from running.

I’ve updated my P90X log with a bunch more data for this week. Also, I want to congratulate the Tiger on his completed 50 miles! He made it the way through, lost some weight and got more stamina. He crushed me in the challenge, but never fear, for Revenge of Chan is our new challenge with a higher mile rate and I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED AGAIN! Also, check out Mardagan’s P90X blog, he’s making some great progress.

This is a document I wrote a while back for work that I thought I would release in hopes that some people out there would find it useful.

Preferably, you have a backup of the file system that you can use. If not, the filesystem you are about to try to to recover a file on must meet these requirements:

• No new files have been created on the filesystem.
• No files have been extended.
• The filesystem is able to be unmounted.
• It is a JFS filesystem, not JFS2

If so, then please, drink a few more beers and continue, but before you do…

BACKUP THE CURRENT FILESYSTEM!
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Ok, so I started Week 1, got to Week 2, got deathly ill for a week, took a week off, re-did Week 1 and here I am, starting Week 2 now and not sick ( yet ). I’m way behind everyone else in the program, which sucks, but I’ll get there! I also have to get back on my diet ( bleh ) to drop these pounds and rebuild them back up as nice, lean muscle.

so while messing with the style of this theme to change a few things, I ran into an interesting thing about CSS - Overrides. More specifically, proximity vs. id/class. In essence, even though I was specifying a closer proximity to the element via it’s outer class, because there was an element with an id with the same style, even though it was higher up the chain, it was overriding my style.

If you understood that, congrats, because I just wrote it and I don’t understand it. So I’ll try and go a little more indepth here. If you don’t care about CSS and web design, please, feel free to disregard this post.

So the sidebar ( the vertical bar over there –> ) has an id of #sidebar and it has a style for all the links. Now, there is the calendar ( which is also over there –> ) which has a class defined of widget_calendar. I wanted to change the style of the links within the calendar. So, using proximity, I said something like this…

li.widget_calendar a {
   text-decoration: underline;
}

Now here’s the rub. Since the sidebar is specified with an id and there can only be one id of that name within the page, that’s considered closer proximity than the fact that I specified a style for a class, assigned to element within the sidebar element. So, in order to fix this, I had to change the style to something that had an id tag and was inside the sidebar element. Lucky for me, the calendar also generates a div with a specific id. I was able to use that to assign my link style.

Confusing, I know. CSS is a love/hate relationship with me. There are so many cool things you can do to style your pages but some of it is so baffling and irritating ( especially with cross browsers ) that it becomes a nightmare.

In any case, the problem has been solved and I now, joyously, have underlined links in my calendar. Yay!

So you may have noticed that the theme on this site kept changing. The basic reason being that I couldn’t find a damn theme that I was entirely happy with. Redoable was nice, but had bugs due to it no longer being developed. I fixed a few but more just seemed to keep popping up. Hemingway had it’s issues, as did Foilage. I went back to Emire, which has no bugs, but I had that theme for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time. Finally, I found this one, called dreamplace. I think it looks cool, it doesn’t have any bugs, scales well and has the calendar that I wanted, although it doesn’t highlight the days, which is something I’ll have to fix.

As for other things, I finished my first week of P90X ( again ). Thanks to all who have left comments, I really appreciate them. I ended up missing Friday due to work issues ( I had to go in at 4 AM, left at 2 and fell asleep ), so I did Legs and Back on Saturday and Kenpo today and I’ve got Chest and Back tomorrow. I’m down to 190 lbs and 20% body fat at the moment, so from here I’ll start the blog pages back up again. Everyone is alot further ahead of me in the program, which sucks but at least it keeps the motivation going for me.

I totally flailed on my challenges with the Tiger, due to my sickness and recent work issues. I won’t be making my goals either, so I’ll have to reset them. At least I got the Tiger running though and hopefully we can start another BeerChan challenge back up.

Anyways, I have to head off to go bowling in a sec ( no more beer. ), but keep checking the site for more updates!