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This ignoramus is a TV exec and doesn't know what AirPlay does? He should be fired http://t.co/a25UNR80 #timewarner #dumbceo 06:03:30 AM May 15, 2012 from Tweetie for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite
Beer… I'm okay with that ;) RT @54northca '… theatres with tv, tables food and beer to create "home like" feel. ' 05:00:23 PM April 27, 2012 from Tweetie for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite
Movie execs consider permitting cell use in theatres=> http://t.co/lXMyTsi8 ; What next? Fireworks?! Stupid… 02:55:41 PM April 27, 2012 from Tweetie for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite
Subtle, Wil, subtle… "I'm in Calgary tomorrow night when my newest #BigBangTheory airs, so I'll watch it there… in colour. " (via @wilw) 06:21:08 AM April 26, 2012 from Tweetie for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite
Joe Peacock's eBook- overpriced compared to dead tree version, but I bought it and am happy. Joe isn't => http://t.co/FQBRCd9y 08:18:12 PM April 25, 2012 from Tweetie for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite

New layout more or less settled

The Atahualpa theme has been active here on the site now for several days. I haven’t received any positive or negative feedback, but I’m happy enough with it now that I’ve made a few minor tweaks.

The banner pictures at the top are now my own photos: I plan on adding in a few cat pictures at some point, but the format requires some fiddling so it may take me a while
I’ve corrected some problems that prevented my archives from showing up
I have managed to get a twitter feed working that doesn’t require the Flash plugin

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Experimenting with a new look

No doubt you were shocked just now if you are one of my regular visitors. Yes, the site looks weird at the moment: I’m experimenting with a different WordPress theme, one called Athahualpa. I’m not sure yet if I really like it, but it has some nice features that I wanted to try out. Let me [...]

Site upgrade Complete

I’m upgrading the WordPress engine that delivers this blog to the latest version. The site will be somewhat “broken” until I’m done: my apologies for the inconvenience! The upgrade is complete, but not without the usual “oh dang, that’s broken now” moments.

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Apparently my Gallery had NSFW comments..

Google sent me an email the other day telling me that my site had “inappropriate” content:

As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with adult or mature content.

Adult? Mature? On *my* site? Hmmm, this required some further investigation. It didn’t take long to find the problem- Google even gave me a sample URL. Apparently, sometime in the last few weeks some comment spammer bot found my photo gallery and started spewing link-farm comments in random spots throughout. And of course, the only person who has to do more work in this process is me.

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Longest outage of my site in five years

Kelly’s World has been down since I left on vacation on Wednesday. Of course my faithful readers (Hi Mom!) have my sincere apologies. From what I can see, my main network switch crashed within hours of us getting in my car. I have no real explanation for the failure other than some sort of digital empathy relating to the buyer’s remorse I feel regarding the DI-LB604 I bought a couple of months or so ago. I am wondering if the firmware update I did on that switch a few days before we left is at the root of the failure. Sometime soon I’m going to write a blog entry regarding my fun during the past few months regarding my network configuration, but today is not the day to start that…

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Gone fishin’

I will be away from home for the next week and a bit. I’m flying to Las Vegas in a few hours to attend a work-related technical conference. That ends next Friday, at which point Irene is flying down to join me and we’ll spend a long weekend seeing the sights in Vegas.

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Site restructuring underway

You may noticed that some odd changes here during the past day or so. This is part of a long term plan I’ve had to tidy up and “rethink” the structure of the site.

The plan is to have easily accessible links to posts specific to each category as part of the main site navigation. The categories [...]

Website outage

I discovered a problem with my blog when I posted my rant about my Cisco RV016 earlier today. After all my network shuffling around, the website was loading very, very slowly. The WordPress blog was taking several minutes to render, whereas the other blogs on the server were behaving normally.

I tried a great many things, including running database recovery diagnostics and upgrading my WordPress version, before finally figuring out the cause. My network changes resulting in my server no longer having correct DNS settings: you could find it, but it couldn’t find the rest of the internet. I suspect the page generation delay was happening because of the Google Adsense stuff on the site, which wants to talk to Google… but I’m just speculating.

In any case, the problem appears to be solved now… five hours after I discovered it. I’m going to add this to the list of things I will blame on my Cisco RV016 router/switch…

UPDATE: I have uncovered and repaired more problems, but these ones I can’t blame on my much maligned Cisco RV016

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Boring site updates

I’ve updated to the latest version of WordPress (2.3.3), the software that makes this blog work, and also updated half a dozen of the plugins on my site. In *theory*, none of the changes should be noticeable to anyone visiting here.

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