June 10, 2004
by dhoytt
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Workouts & Lakers?Pistons Series

Lakers are getting out hustled plus the Pistons in most positions are more athletic. Phil Jackson stayed with a crippled Malone too long and that made Shaq cover for him and put Shaq in foul trouble. One game playing crippled may work but not when another team goes after you all game! A healthy Medevenko was right there.
I still believe the Lakers will bring it back to LA and get another championship!!
Workouts are going cool today was cardio. Did the bike and push-ups and stomach crunches. Yesterday I was sooo tired I forgot that you need more rest in the beginning of starting the type of harsh workouts I do. Tonight I will go to bed early. Early bed for me is before midnight.

June 9, 2004
by dhoytt
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Workouts on hit!!

My garage is at the point where I can now go from one weight/workout station and hit the weights to the next in a steady flow to hit a whole body work out plus cardio on stationary bike or Nordi-Trak contraption.
On days like tomorrow where I don’t hit the weights I will need to hit some extended cardio (at least 5 plus miles running on the streets or hit bike then Nordi-Trak) crunches and push-ups then the next day weights & cardio again…… Why do I let myself get out of shape…… Will be corrected in quick order though!!
BRING THE PAIN!! Time to hit the workout baby!!
Still need to move more things out of the house and garage. I have moved literally truck loads out of the house!
Didn’t do too much technical except at work.

June 8, 2004
by dhoytt
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Typical Day

Legal #@%* in the morning.
Worked during the day since I did WAH (work at home). Was able to go straight to the living room after work hours and get the beginning of the Lakers Pistons game.
The game was exciting ….too exciting wanted the Lakers to run away with the game but that did not happen. Kobe sent the game to overtime with another terrific clutch 3 pointer.
Game had me going so much during commercials and half-time had to find something to do so I played a few games of darts, 301 first and then cricket.
Shaq & Kobe showed why they have 3 championship rings when the game looked lost they scored the rest of the Laker points. Incredible focus and fortitude.
Luke Walton came in and helped open up the flow with his great passes and defense even though supposedly he was over matched physically. I think Shaq loves Luke because he knows how to feed Shaq the ball in scoring position. Actually he set up Kobe really nice a few times too…
Malone played great defense even though he could barely move. Fisher was a bulldog as usual.
Detroit played really smart and almost pulled this off. The Lakers need to stop fouling Billups!! That guy doesn’t miss free throws.
GP has been a bit off but we have to remember he was the only Laker to play every game and the Lakers would not be here without him!! Plus in the previous series after the second game he’s been money!
The Lakers need to stay focused on every possession and play smart like they know how to win the series…. I could go on about the game but will leave that to the sportswriters.

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June 7, 2004
by dhoytt
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Monday :) :(

Just another Monday had a little stomach ache that plagued me off an on this weekend. Been skipping too many meals probably. I think its time to up my work-out tempo. I never really stop totally working out just the frequency is less sometimes depending on what I have going on.
Gonna start my heavy duty burn work outs. A lot of people think they get out of shape because of age but more likely because of the accumulation of not doing exercise or eating right over long periods. Hey, thats the only reasons I get out of shape, even with injury there are things you can do.
I have my excuses too ;)…they just aren’t legit reasons not to work out…time to hit the work-outs hard this week!!

June 6, 2004
by dhoytt
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Lakers & Pistons Kick-Off NBA Finals

Any of you who know me a bit know I’m a big L.A. sports fans. Laker, Dodgers, Rams (formerly LA), Raiders (well Cali and briefly LA), USC, UCLA.
Just have to say one thing getting my work-out in today relax a bit and then kick back and watch Kobe & Shaq go for championship ring number four.
GO LAKERS!!!!

June 5, 2004
by dhoytt
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Chill Day

Today has been a day of just chilling out and relaxing. Did get some utensils for mixing drinks and a new screen for my patio door though. Been so busy lately needed a day of doing not much.

June 4, 2004
by dhoytt
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So Many Features

I am finding that this blog software has many features. Being this is my first introduction to using and maintaining a blog, its quite the experience.
I am going through turning features on and off as I figure what each feature actually performs.
Also thinking of putting this webserver on both of my LAN’s to better upload files from my other systems on the other LAN or maybe just make my other system a bridge that is on both networks……hmmmm.

June 3, 2004
by dhoytt
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Starting Blog Officially

I have had the Blog up and running for a while after moving my website first from my ISP’s webserver. I had to move off of their server because I was constantly updating my song information too frequently from my music server in an environment where others shared the bandwidth.
I then tried getting this Blog up and running on HPUX which is not yet supported and thus did not work. This caused an issue since I had my apache webserver running on my HP-UX server. I decided to move my webserver to a Linux system because of this.
I had to reload Linux on one of my other systems and get apache running on then switch over when satisfied it was serving up web pages properly. I also like to know I can recover quickly so I really wanted to have a good feel for this Linux system and where and what everything was doing. I also had to get a separate router to keep my packets for the webserver going to the proper static ip address for webcasting and streaming my music.
While this was all going on I moved my music server off of my main system and built a Dual Xeon 2.4 system with 1gb of RAM and of course nothing but SCSI drives to improve the performance and eliminate lag when manually manipulating the playlists while streaming the music.
Whew, I had to convert a rack-mounted case designed for hot swap SCSI 50 pin hard drives that had 2 separate power supplies. I had to saw and bend metal, drill curse, rewire molex power plugs etc..and curse and bleed some more!!
I then had to go through all of the steps of setting up this Blog and “MYSQL” which stores and archives blog comments.
For those of you keeping track yes I have two systems for this operation. The web server is running Linux Fedora1 core. The music server is running Windows XP so I can use some DJ mixing software that I also use to stream the music.
Keep coming back as I get time I will do more and really polish this site. I am looking at other methods of streaming. I will focus more on aesthetics but I first prefer to have the technical portion operating well. I’m sure in a few months I would have some major and minor tweaks and little behind the scenes will be the same!
hmmm… still learning the front end and the back end of the blog soooo….
Right now just having a lot of fun doing this!!