{"id":26,"date":"2012-09-16T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/wii-bike-jazz-xen-nginx\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:26:43","slug":"wii-bike-jazz-xen-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wii-bike-jazz-xen-nginx\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii, Bike, Jazz, Xen, NGINX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago an incredible games console was released that had astounding graphics and sound. Never having been into video games, I never bought one; they were expensive and so were the games. But there was one game that really intrigued me and could inspire long sessions playing on other people&#8217;s consoles. It was only today that I realised <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecco_the_Dolphin\" title=\"Ecco\">Ecco The Dolphin<\/a> was released on the Sega Mega-Drive (Genesis) 20 years ago. <b>20 bloody years ago!<\/b> How the hell did that happen? Time is cruel.<br \/>\nSome updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We got given a Wii by some lovely friends who are leaving Philly and heading home to the motherland. Today I hacked it for homebrew and can now not only play my beloved Ecco, but can watch my entire video collection without having to convert it to MP4.<\/li>\n<li>On Friday, this blog, the server on which it and a number of websites were hosted, vanished. This is another in a long line of hosting cock-ups that have been hammering away at my soul for the last 12 months. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=1192426\" title=\"web hosting talk\">The details are unimportant<\/a> but yet again I&#8217;ve had to reconstruct my &#8220;recent&#8221; blog posts from Google&#8217;s cache and now I have to convert my extensive Apache configurations to <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.nginx.org\" title=\"nginx\">nginx<\/a>. As it turns out I&#8217;d planned to do this already but not at such short notice. BTW in case you weren&#8217;t aware, nginx is the dogs bollocks. So is <a href=\"http:\/\/mosh.mit.edu\/\">mosh<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mr B invited me along to see an <a href=\"http:\/\/exuberance.typepad.com\/\">excellent Jazz Band<\/a> he&#8217;s promoting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjazzcafe.com\/\">Chris&#8217; Jazz Cafe<\/a> during the week. It was a truly brilliant evening.<\/li>\n<li>With yet more encouragement from Mr B I finally stopped mincing and actually bought a bike on Saturday! I love it too. After actually getting it out of the shop we took a cycle from home to Kelly Drive. It killed my knees by the end, but thanks to some stretching exercises my legs were fine the next day. It&#8217;s just my arse that&#8217;s sore.<\/li>\n<li>After realising that a Nexus 7 is a comfortable replacement for my work-bought iPad, I sent the latter to my family in London. Despite some unpleasantness with HMRC, they got it and now our weekly Skype chats from &#8220;the computer room&#8221; have turned into Facetime chats from the hub of the living room. It&#8217;s like being in the room with everyone! My niece grows lovelier by the week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Er&#8230;that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago an incredible games console was released that had astounding graphics and sound. 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