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Christmas Night

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Thanks to Elizabeth and Jimmy and Moises and Cathie for a great party!  Pictures are here.

Christmas Day

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Merry Christmas! Pictures are here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericmason/sets/72157611634352705/

Christmas Tree

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The tree is up!

Thanksgiving

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun.  We had 20 people here at our house.  Check out the pictures.

Fall Photos

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Church Picnic

Monday, October 27th, 2008

First Baptist Church of Pompano Beach had our 2008 picnic yesterday at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach.  Check out the pictures.

Dan and Lauren’s Wedding

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Congratulations to our good friends Dan Cohen and Lauren Taub!  They were married October 12 in Lincon, Massachusetts.

Amazon EBS Snapshot Backups with LVM and XFS

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I’m working on setting up a server to host email accounts on Amazon EC2 using the newly released Elastic Block Storage.  My benchmarking has shown XFS to be better than ReiserFS for this task - and presumably EXT3, but I ran out of patience.

Since I will need to grow the filesystem in the future, I am using LVM.  This also allows me to break up the logical volume into separate EBS volumes, which should increase random access performance.   (more…)

Hello world!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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