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looking at houses

11:15 Saturday 09 January 2016 JST

Lin and I are on 南武線 now to look at some houses near Yomiuriland!

15:37

Of the three houses we saw, we both agree on their order of awesomeness. The most awesome one has a loft, is built with old school wooden building techniques, and features beams above the living room upon which the cats and I can walk. I'm not 100% sure they are s00p3r str0ng enough to hold me easily, but I kinda bet they are. For the cats, they're quite fine.

Right now as I write this, we're on a bus heading to 百合ヶ丘 station, the kanji for which is quite easy to write, so that's nice too. Lin is talking to a 75 year old woman who we met on the way to the bus stop. She seems quite genki for her age, possibly in part due to the hills in the area.

15:44

Wow we're already at the station; that was quick!

But perhaps most importantly, we're within walking distance of Yomiuri Land!!

Here are pics of the house we like best:

testing local sites

10:27 Saturday 09 January 2016 JST

I just bought an account on https://ngrok.com so I can use ghost inspector to test my local machines running on virtualbox. Sweet!

I sent a couple emails back and forth with Alan who quickly solved the setup issue I was having. He showed me how I can easily use ngrok to test my site which only exists on my local virtualbox machine via a domain which only exists in my /etc/hosts file:

./ngrok http -host-header=mylocal.exampledomain.net  mylocal.exampledomain.net:80

And now that I've signed up, I have reserved rob.ngrok.io as one of my three reserved names for connection tunnels!

./ngrok http -host-header=mylocal.exampledomain.net -subdomain rob  mylocal.exampledomain.net:80

Shwiing!

I'm consdering buying an account with ghostinspector, but the lowest price is a bit high for me .. $100 per month for 10,000 tests per month. If it were $100 per year for 1000 tests per month, then I'd have it already.