http://obstinate.org don't be hasty Mon, 05 May 2008 20:52:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few years ago my brother picked up drumming. He is pretty good, as a result of him getting into the 'music scene' I have inadvertently started to pay more attention to music. One of the bands I really learned to love in the past few years is Led Zepplin ... http://obstinate.org/journal/rhythm-within-chaos/ I hired some new people a few weeks ago, and I am pretty excited to have a great new crew on board. Samy is also actively recruiting this perl developer from Flint, MI and had him in town for the weekend to see if he was interested in moving to ... http://obstinate.org/technology/geeking-out/ After having my halides in for a few months, all of the corals I have had have been doing very well. The LPS's have been doing great with the exception of the Candy-Cane that kept getting buried by the gobies, I relocated him up onto the rocks but he lost ... http://obstinate.org/tanks/hot-hot-heat-hand-me-downs/ So I found some cool dudes on craigslist that wanted to do some trades. I traded some nice pink pulsing Xenia for a huge two-head purple-tipped green frogspawn, and a 4-headed green candy-cane and a few mushroom frags. The guy I met had a 20k 250w DE halide that he ... http://obstinate.org/tanks/going-from-14k-to-20k-elite-frogspawns/ A few weeks ago I came across a problem with MySQL and Mediawiki that nobody on the internet seemed to be able to solve. I was able to figure it out and posted a little article on what I did. I have a number of other unique tricks up my ... http://obstinate.org/technology/mysql-trickery/ Over time, my little 3 gallon pico tank became overgrown. The Ritola Green was seriously taking up ALL of the space in the tank. I trimmed back about half of the growth in the tank and filled up 2 dixie cups worth of clippings. Revealing the substrate revealed an interesting ... http://obstinate.org/tanks/overgrowth/ So, for the first time ever with my reef tank, I have measured some of the chemical parameters. I was at a local LFS and they had a Reef testing kits by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals that tests the following: Calcium Phosphates Nitrite KH So I tested each of them and ended up with the following paramaters: Calcium: ... http://obstinate.org/tanks/measuring-calcium/ So today I arrived in South Beach Miami. I am here for a trade show for work. I have never been to Florida before, but so far it is very neat. Our hotel is RIGHT on south-beach, like literally the back of the hotel borders sand. We arrived around 4pm ... http://obstinate.org/journal/south-beach-miami/ So I wanted to post some quick shots of the progress on my Planted tanks over the past 2 months: 3 Gallon Pico From a few months ago January 19th 2008 12 Gallon Nano A few months ago January 19th 2008 http://obstinate.org/tanks/january-growth-progress-on-planted-tanks/ Today I went with my Wife and a coworker to Disneyland. I am no stranger to Disneyland, about a year and a half ago my Wife and I got yearly passes, and we renewed them again this year. Today we went, and we largely just walked around, looking at the ... http://obstinate.org/journal/the-hidden-mickeys/