23-09-2007 departure from Beirut airport, destination Malpensa, Milano
Arrived there at 7:00AM - spent 1:45 between the huge crowd that was there. Most of the people simply passing thru Milan, as it is the cheapest airport this time of the year.
Arrived at Stazione Centrale (downtown Milan) at 9:30 - We took the shuttle from outside the Airport6EUR/person [ Malpensa Express ]
As I said in my earlier post, almost everything was set.
We used google-earth and google-maps to find the location of all our hotels. We also used google calendar with sms notifications to set reminders for our train departure times.
We packed light, not as light as we should have though. But here are some essentials one should take on such a trip:
Some things that we shouldn’t have been packing:
We’ve been married for 2 months, and were both looking forward to this trip 
Our agent, Amin, had proposed a list of places to go and things to see. He also made arrangements for all our hotel and train/plane tickets. So most of the trip was layed out before hand.
We really enjoyed it. Every part of it. And we’ll be posting some of the details of the time we spent in Italy in this blog under the Italian Holiday category. So stay tuned, you might find interesting stuff + some pointers for your own holidays!
P & A
Strange how it goes after one’s been married for a while. Not a long time, just a while…
Before we were married we would spend lots of time out and about, visiting every single restaurant one could think of (from AL Zouhour in Bourj Hammoud to L’Entrecote de Paris). And we would see a movie almost every week!
Nowadays, we do the same… But mostly at home! We eat better, that’s true. And we get to better select what to watch. Instead of L’Entrecote, Paypouy makes a killer steak with her own special sauce that is simply superior to anything I have ever tasted before (see the Blue Cheese Steak Sauce on scrum2.us - coming soon).
But it doesn’t have to be that fancy! Today we had a quick pancake for dinner, it was delicious. But even more delicious is that I spend the entire evening close to my wife.
We saw “Iron Man” this week. It was good. But I most liked about it that we both enjoyed it
The tube is showing “Bourne Identity” now, so I’m going back to suggle next to Paypouy and spend the rest of the evening trying to prevent her from watching it (6)
MySQL incremental backups can be acheived using the --log-bin option. For more information about that and for the original source of the following code, please see the mysql ref. manual.
Now to the code:
I added some logging to the script
#!/bin/bash
MODE=$1
MYSQLUSER=backup
FTPUSER=ftpuser
FTPPASS=ftppass
BINLOGPATH=/var/lib/mysql
BINLOGNAME=mysql-bin
ARCHIVEPATH=/var/data/backups/mysql/
The Boss, our cat, aka ta2′oush / minet / inta ya / etc… likes to cuddle in my lap as soon as I start working!
Here’s a pic Paypouy took earlier
set the folowing:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoLowDiskSpaceChecks => 1
And you’re done
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
(03:16:49 PM) Pia: Skype (IPA pronunciation: /skaɪp/, rhymes with type
(03:16:53 PM) Pia:
(03:17:01 PM) .: thank you
(03:17:06 PM) Pia:
(03:17:06 PM) .: so I was right ?
(03:17:11 PM) .: yislamli ana
(03:17:12 PM) Pia: ya hala
(03:17:20 PM) Pia:
(03:17:38 PM) Pia: messi
(03:17:43 PM) Pia: put it on your blog
(03:17:49 PM) Pia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
Done!
For a couple of days the pppoe connection at my new appartment worked like a charm. After that poof! disappeared.
The connection would go up then down. On Windows, all is fine, so I figured it was a bug with the software… nope, re-installed, re-compiled, etc…
Anyway to cut the story short, I had to stop the DHCP client on the network interface connecting to the pppoe service. After that it was AOK. It doesn’t make sense really, but it worked
So if you’re using fastnetonline.com, and need help connecting, drop me a line, I might be able to help…
I also had to edit the default route manually to use the ppp0 device! looks like it’s something that needs to be fixed. I’m thinking of going back to gentoo!
