I was driving down the road, and my car died. I couldn’t start it back up afterwards.

I think this is the last straw for my 1990 Honda Accord. It’s time to look for a newer, reliable and cheap replacement.

It was a good run, 5 years. RIP

On the bright side, this is right before my insurance expired, so I can start a new plan with a new car.

Eric is in town for 3 weeks before he heads off to Germany. I’ll post some pics I’m sure once he leaves.

Yesterday, I plugged in the XBoX for the first time in months. It wouldn’t turn on, or read the disk. I panicked.

It turned out to be a simple solution:

1. The bank configuration was off, and now teamxecuter.com’s domain expired, so anything I had linked there doesn’t work (namely the bank diagram in that post). I fiddled with it and was finally able to get it working.
2. The disc was… dirty. It was EA’s NCAA 2007. I knew it was dirty because I put another game in and it worked just fine. I made sure to dvd2XBoX it over to my hdd just in case I had any other problems with it.

Other than that, the XBoX is still going strong, despite the fact I don’t play it anymore!

I had another issue with MySQL not being able to open a file again. Same fix did it.

#1016 - Can't open file: 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI' (errno: 145) 

# myisamchk wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
Checking MyISAM file: wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
Data records:     109   Deleted blocks:     270
myisamchk: warning: Table is marked as crashed
myisamchk: warning: 4 clients are using or haven't closed the table properly
- check file-size
- check record delete-chain
myisamchk: error: Record at pos: 203284 is not remove-marked
myisamchk: error: record delete-link-chain corrupted
- check key delete-chain
- check index reference
- check data record references index: 1
myisamchk: warning: Auto-increment value: 19908 is smaller than max used value: 19909
- check record links
myisamchk: error: Record-count is not ok; is 113          Should be: 109
myisamchk: warning: Found 235456 deleted space.   Should be 236988
myisamchk: warning: Found        419 parts                Should be: 414 parts
MyISAM-table 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI' is corrupted
Fix it using switch "-r" or "-o"

# myisamchk -r wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
- recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI'
Data records: 109
- Fixing index 1
Data records: 113

I wonder what causes the data to be corrupted…

Introducing the latest member of the Dehler family, Daisy Mae. We picked the girl! She’s a brown Chihuahua, 8 weeks old and just under one pound.

And she is cute :). She’s Kessa’s dog, and Daisy knows it. See the pictures.