I took a very long hiatus (over a year) from posting here. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since January 1st 2007. Most of the people who read this have probably heard me say on occasion that the reason I don’t blog that often is because I don’t have anything useful to contribute. That’s more of an excuse than anything else. I still believe that the contents here should be useful to someone, at least to myself. The problem is that I’m not blogging about that stuff either.

If you are a frequent visitor of this blog, I hope you start to see regular content again. I won’t be posting every day, and maybe not every week - but I should be posting at least a couple of times a month. I’m doing some really interesting things these days, and some of them are definitely worth sharing.

If you’ve been here before, you might have noticed that there is a new tagline above. Since most of my day-to-day revolves around databases, that’s pretty much most of what you’re going to get here. You’ll still get a smattering of GNU/Linux and other code stuff (Perl, PHP, etc) but only to the extend that I stumbled upon something in my job as a DBA.

You’ll also see a new look about the place. It’s pretty much the same template I had before. I moved the sidebar to the right again, and I changed the colors and graphics around. I also edited all the categories and re-categorized all the links.

So welcome (or welcome back) to onefreevoice.com - a blog about databases and stuff.

Until yesterday, my collection of digital photos was a complete mess. We had pictures archived away in multiple tar files on multiple computers, and duplicates everywhere. It was hard to find a picture, and unless you really knew exactly what you were looking for and where it was, it was impossible. Yesterday, I googled for a good solution and I came upon This informative post about photo organization in linux. It was the perfect solution. (more…)

I’m slowly adding computers to my network now, and I’m discovering that not setting up a proper name convention when I only had 2 or 3 PCs is going to now be a problem. I want to think of a standard now while I’m in the process of moving things around and refining the network - before things really get out of hand. (more…)

Seems like my buddy Ed Corrado is jumping on the Technorati bandwagon amoung others (his profile).

Not to be left out, I decided to create my own Technorati Profile. You can check it out if you care too.

*sigh* - I’m only ranked at 1,141,986.

I never really messed about with the trackback feature, but I was a bit suprised to learn that they aren’t reciprocal in nature. I had (wrongly) assumed that when someone does a trackback to one of your posts, you get a link on their blog/site back to you. (more…)