Enjoyed a great day of spring skiing with the family at King Pine Ski Area.
Author: Michael Webber
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My Best Side Made the Paper
Always strange to open up your local newspaper and see yourself, especially not realizing the photo was taken in the first place. Yikes! -
Morning Sun through Fog at Lincoln Woods State Park
Heavy rain last night landed on record amounts of snow from the past few weeks. Spring is on it’s way!
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Swan on the Blackstone near Albion Bridge
3/1/15 – Blackstone River Swan near the Albion Bridge in Cumberland, Rhode Island. The Albion Bridge was built in 1885 by the Boston Bridge Works.
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Hilton Hhonors Wifi vs. Verizon Hotspot
Our family is on a short two-day ski trip in New Hampshire, staying at Hampton Inn & Suites North Conway. The hotel is great, extremely family friendly, and the staff are nice. There’s an amazing mini-water park  inside the hotel, bingo night, movie night complete with popcorn. Just a wonderful place.
Unfortunately, I needed to sneak in a quick Skype TV interview for work Monday morning and was hoping the hotel wifi would be strong enough. In running some speed tests the night before and I was frightened by the results. I’m not a big business traveler, but I’ve heard the hotel wifi can vary significantly and often performs rather poorly.
I’m barely getting 1MB download and upload speeds and about half that:
Hilton Hhonors Wifi Speed Test Results To be fair, I was testing the wifi at the worst possible time, 9pm on school vacation week. I believe the hotel is nearly full, it will be curious to see if there’s any improvement in the morning.
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Upgrade MediaWiki, 5 Easy Steps Using FTP and Web Browser
I run a relatively small wiki using MediaWiki hosted on a Dreamhost server. Generally, I like to stay on top of upgrades for the security patches, new features, and bug fixes but the manual upgrade process makes me nervous.I’ve been burned from nightmare Drupal CMS upgrades in the past. Losing hours of my life to troubleshooting and rebuilding is not something I ever want to repeat.
Anyway, I’ve procrastinated for a while now on this MediaWiki upgrade. I finally decided to jump in this week and get it done. I thought I would share the process I used, which is not exactly the recommended process on the MediaWiki website, but I found it easy and straight forward.  I successfully avoided the command line, which makes me somewhat nervous and certainly not in my comfort zone.
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Cumberland, RI – Snowstorm Road Conditions 2/2/15 @ 5:45pm
Rhode Island 295S from state line to Dave’s Marketplace Cumberland.
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Fun XLIX Super Bowl Stats (2015)
Everything about the NFL Super Bowl is measured on a grand scale. Each year I enjoy looking at some of the numbers. Especially the technical, TV production-related numbers. Here are four “numbers” that stood out this year:
$4.5M
This number represents the average costs of a 30-second Super Bowl Commercial for the XLIX 205 Super Bowl. The chart below provides some historical context on the rise of the Super Bowl Commercial.
12.5M
According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans are “expected to order about 12.5 million pizzas on Sunday. Order early!
51
Lastly, 51… This is the number of television cameras that will be used for “Game” coverage. This does not include, the pre-game show, half time, and all the other extra productions that surround the big game.
In fact, the full camera plan is available online, check it out here.
ENJOY THE GAME, GO PATRIOTS!
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Diana’s Bath New Hampshire in Winter
Happy New Year! Our family spent the day in Conway, New Hampshire enjoying a quiet day hiking to Diana’s Bath to see the waterfalls in winter.
