Shanna seems to have brought home some minor contagion that just could not resist me. Left work early yesterday with a low grade fever that seems to be persisting through today. I’m not ill enough to avoid work, but I do not want to spread this around to others. I’ll probably be back at the office tomorrow.
I’m also taking the opportunity to update my blog/Twitter/Facebook interconnectivity… Why post multiple times?
Went to Medina to ride in the Friendsville Freebie Fifty (Fall Foliage & Frostbite Frolic). It was windy and cold! Weather forecast said we were supposed to have sunshine but I wasn’t able to catch it. Took the shortcut after the cider stop with Count DracuLou for a 28 mile ride.
Check out the map log from Garmin Connect… I am slow!
Tested the ride to work with Cody today. Shanna joined us for the ride too. We did a quick mini tour of Cleveland’s water front at Brown’s stadium and the Rock Hall. We stopped at Jenny’s and visited for a break on the way back.
37 miles of riding in 3 1/2 hours at an 11 mph average pace.
View Cleveland mini tour in a larger map
I did a short loop on Sunday with Cody and Shanna. Great day for a ride. We had a small problem near the start of the ride with Cody’s bike. It had a frozen chain link that was causing problems with the chain skipping. I removed the link and we continued on.
Click on the map markers for more information. Follow the link on the bottom to get a larger version of the map.
View Sunday Loop (2010-05-16) in a larger map
I’m trying out importing to Google Maps import from the GPS. It doesn’t have as much information from the ride but I’m more confident with the longevity of the data. Maybe I’ll do my own charting of the other ride data in the future.
Cody has decided that biking is his preferred exercise. I agree completely! He and Shanna joined me for the regular Thursday night AkronBike ride from Deep Lock Quarry.
We did a modified valley loop since we had a late start due to Shanna’s work schdule.
My daughter Shanna and her boyfriend (“prospective future son-in-law”) went biking with me. They rode the tandem together for the first time. Great entertainment fun!
I use a VPS (Virtual Private Server) to provide mail and web services for our companies. This off-loads the server and internet maintenance for our high speed internet server requirements. The hosting center provides services we simply could not afford to provide directly and at a much more reasonable cost. Domain configuration and maintenance is mostly performed from a web “control panel”. Low level host configuration control can be done from a Linux command line using an SSH connection.
The Plesk control panel is connected to via SSL (https:// URL) on port 8443 by default. This generally works out very well, except when I am on the road and find myself behind a restrictive firewall that only allows web connections on standard ports – port 80 for http and port 443 for https. When this occurs, I need a way to access the server administration interface without resorting to using my 3G telephone connection. This turns out to be a perfect opportunity for working with subdomains and Apache proxy support to transparently forward ports 80 and 443 to port 8443 on the same server.
After several hours searching with Google and reading many various proxy solutions and approaches, I discovered a posting on theBartels.de, Running Plesk on Port 443, that covered my requirements and almost worked for me. I recommend reading the excellent information provided in the post to better understand what I have done.
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