hachi

On Vox: Online financial software

2009-06-01T03:41:56Z

Has anyone found an online financial software package that allows you to add your own accounts and transactions?

I've tried three of them; mint, wesabe, and quicken online. These all depend on handing your security credentials to them and they will pull the data for you. I want a piece of software that doesn't violate the basic rules of security and lets me add accounts that I want... importing my old information would also be a plus.

All of this brought on by the fact that Intuit hasn't put out a new version of Quicken for Mac in almost three years.

Originally posted on hachi.vox.com

Mmmmmmmmotorcycle

2008-10-05T18:42:52Z

BMW F800S

The test results are in!

2008-09-18T22:15:27Z

There's nothing physically wrong with me. Hurray *waves tiny flag*

There are chances it will occur again but hopefully not for a long time, and the doctor said that people don't die from atrial fibrulation.

To celebrate, I think I'll get myself a motorcycle. :)

I took today off.

2008-09-15T13:35:35Z

and I just got back from the ER. I had an atrial fibrulation (sp?). Apparently my heart was running at about 200BPM and skipping beats. It's a long overdue bedtime now.

Update...

They gave me drugs: Toerol XL 50mg.

They had a nickname for this of "Holiday Heart". So named because people will often come in with it after binge drinking or something. I was in Napa yesterday tasting wines so that could be a possible cause.

I hate software

2008-09-10T01:20:51Z

OSX: The item "bigfile.sparseimage" cannot be copied because there is not enough free space.

I check, 500GB free on the target, 20GB file. I try making a directory.... works fine. I try copying a small file.... same error.

After checking logs and whatnot I realize that this is probably a machine that hasn't been on in a very long time. Check the clock... It's 1999, fix it. Error goes away.

I'm sorry, Apple... how can a clock set to before the turn of the century make it believe that there isn't enough disk space. Do the greater-than/less-than operators change meaning depending on the season?

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2007-12-02T02:58:33Z

So, the ipod touch has no mail or feed client? It seems even more useless to me now.

Accent meme

2007-11-10T08:43:31Z

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Neutral

You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

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UFO? Roach motel? Drum brake?

2007-10-06T05:06:10Z

It's actually a crisping sleeve that came with a small microwavable (but I'm not using the microwave) pizza that I just bought. I'm now wondering if they offer engineering degrees for microwave food. I'm also never paying money for one of these pizzas again.

hachi @ 2007-08-25T19:23:00

2007-08-26T02:40:20Z

Saw "Stardust" today, and liked it very much. Love the story and characters, and I would recommend it to anyone who would like fantasy films.

Also, a few weeks ago I was visiting ovaltine8, pimento amd julsey in Seattle. We went and saw the wonderful show "Young Frankenstein" at the Paramount theater, and that was wonderful as well.

hachi @ 2007-08-24T23:59:00

2007-08-25T07:49:37Z

I've got like 500 or more burned CD/DVD media with data on them. Data which I don't think other people should have, but not sensitive data. Anyone have ideas on how I can dispose of them?

(At least with 3.5" diskettes I could erase them)

Caltrain... you fail this.

2007-08-07T03:20:38Z

Apparently there was a train accident around 6pm on southbound tracks. I arrived at the Caltrain station at 6:50 to find the 6:33 train waiting for boarding. We cruised down the peninsula to Millbrae, made one stop and then stopped near San Mateo.

Now the lights have gone out, and the engine pulling us has apparently failed. We're waiting for the train behind us to link up, and push us into the next station. Then we get to disembark... and get on the train behind us to finally go home.

I guess I might get home 2 hours or more after I left work... bleh.

Voice Post:

2007-07-25T07:26:48Z

I've never done this before.

2007-07-24T01:03:38Z

Dear Lazyweb,

I need to drive 4 (or possibly even up to 8) SATA disks from Linux with software raid and am having a difficult time finding any decent controller cards.

I've gone poking around on/at Newegg, Buy.com, Central Computer, Frys, CompUSA, and Best Buy so far.

Any suggestions welcome, but I've already tried the Promise controllers (big mistake).

Love,
hachi

Harry Potter OOTP

2007-07-23T10:06:32Z

I went and saw Harry Potter on IMAX in 3D this weekend. I liked it, the 3d effect was a definite good thing to add to the end of the movie. IMAX does make the film better though because there were zero previews before the film, and the guys who run that projector seem to actually care more about focusing the image on the screen. Oh yeah, and the screen is bigger.

Would have liked to see Transformers on that screen, in 3D. Oh well.

Upgrading disk space.

2007-07-23T09:59:36Z

I guess I'm lucky I have enough tools to force things to go my way.

Wednesday my PS2's hard drive dies and fails to spin up in any machine I put it in. I get annoyed and take the cover off, power the drive on and give the spindle a push with my finger. The drive spins up and I set the cover back on it, back up all my data, and throw the drive away.

Me: 1
HDD: 0

Next up, bought 3 750GB SATA disks today. While installing the second one a screw head snaps off. I'm forced to drill the core of the screw out of the drive, and pick the remains of the threads out manually. This worked fine, but I wasted like an hour doing it.

Me: 2
HDD: 0

Finally, installing the 3rd 750 the same thing happens again, in a different hole. This time I'm able to back the remains of the screw out using a needle nose pliers and finish in under 5 minutes.

Me: 3
HDD: 0

Yeah, I know... several people told me they suck and I didn't listen. I did probe the depths of how much they do suck under Linux and found that they don't support TCQ, hotplug or suspend. Plus every 10 minutes or so the card likes to reset the whole bus. So I'm left with no IO to those disks for about 15 seconds while they re-detect or something.

I'll run up to Central Computer tomorrow and see if I can get anything better that doesn't cost as much as a 3ware raid card.

It was somewhat worth it though when I got to the end and Linux reported this:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/red-all 2.1T 198M 2.0T 1% /red

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2007-06-07T21:29:00Z

Off to Oskosh I go, whee!

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2007-05-13T02:38:24Z

Eearl "I am pregnant with steak baby"

hachi @ 2007-05-08T02:32:00

2007-05-08T09:33:05Z

Went diving this last weekend. Lost face mask and fin in ocean.

hachi @ 2007-04-28T02:18:00

2007-04-28T09:20:46Z

I just shaved. This really wouldn't be noteworthy except I accidentally had the trimmer facing the wrong way when I took the first pass at my beard, which took all the hair off down to the skin.

D'oh.

Guess I'll try not having a beard for a few days.

hachi @ 2007-03-17T17:07:00

2007-03-18T00:20:02Z

Went diving twice today so far, both were out to the metridium fields in Monterey Bay. Next up is a night dive, and then tommorow more diving.

hachi @ 2007-03-15T18:57:00

2007-03-16T02:01:33Z

My Air Conditioner's broken, I just tested it to make sure it was okay. Less than a year old, nice job GE.

From the more technical standpoint, it's the outside fan that's broken. The starter coil/cap must be dead because I can get it spinning just fine if I nudge it. I don't even know how to test if a cap or coil is bad with out spare parts, guess I'll have to take it into the shop then.

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2007-02-16T02:49:32Z

Ihave monday off (drinking and i won't remember)

hachi @ 2007-01-31T23:16:00

2007-02-01T07:22:40Z

Oh great interweb, I offer this information unto thee.

Windows file sharing coupled with smbfs mounting is slow. Very slow. On a 100Mbit switched link I was getting performance of about 2.2MB/sec actually transferring files.

I started getting angry, so I decided to grab cygwin1.dll and rsync.exe from somewhere, fire it up in daemon mode and retry the transfer. Now I'm fetching files at a rate of about 8MB/sec.

Yay.

hachi @ 2007-01-26T15:36:00

2007-01-26T23:42:51Z

I gave LJ an 888 Voice Post number today. Our main numbers all went down and this was my short path to getting it working again.

Currently this is only open to the paidmembers of livejournal, and you should visit there for the real rundown.

If you're not a paidmember, please don't worry. We're just testing it first, and in time we will bubble this down to all users with voice post access.

Have fun with it and be sure to let our support people know if you break it.

My exciting weekend.

2007-01-22T12:12:11Z

I just spent many many hours getting all of my finances put into Quicken all the way back to about February last year.

Now I just need to stare at some of the graphs and figure out why I can't move ahead financially, and I've finally started doing something I've meant to do for at least 5 years now.

I went and saw a chamber concert at the San Francisco Symphony called "The Moscow Soloists" on Sunday. The concert got better as it went:

Beethoven String Quartet No. 11, Serioso, arr. by Mahler - Can't even remember this.

Tan Dun Concerto for Pipa and Strings - Strange piece, very 'oriental' sounding with the Pipa as lead instrument, orchestra imitates and also provides some vocal accents. I loved hearing it, but probably wouldn't want a recording of it. Looked incredibly difficult to play.

Britten Lachrymae for Viola and Strings - Sounded like a Theme and Variations in reverse.

Schubert String Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden, arr. by Mahler - Incredibly good, no more to say.

Then there were also three encore pieces played. The first I can't remember, the second was a straivinsky piece, and the third was a Polka for strings or somesuch. I need to dig out the titles of these pieces because I quite liked them.

Goodnight.