My web server has a flower…
I finally got that new heat sink for my server this afternoon. I shut the box down for an hour or two while I installed and tested to make sure…
Blogging about blogging
Smokin’ hot CPU
We had a power failure today at our house while I was at work. When I got home I restarted my web server and it ran for about a minute…
Blog timetravel…or when timestamps collide
I just spent fifteen minutes or so trying to figure out why a blog post I edited here disappeared. Apparently, between my blog editor (Ecto) and my blog software (Wordpress),…
I’m baaack…
My various websites have been off line this weekend. And so have I...no EverQuest 2 for me, and no logging in to the office to do my work. Telus dropped…
Semi-annual hacking…
This server has been down more or less continuously for the last 24 hours. It was all part of the semi-annual celebration known as "Hack Day", which is always accompanied…
A few more site theme “niggles” fixed…
As I have mentioned before, I am using a slightly modified version of a theme from Ensellitis here. As per my usual habit, I am always tinkering. There were a…
Slashdot changed their RSS feed URL and never told me!
Sigh... I just spent nearly two hours figuring out that Slashdot has changed the URL of their RSS feed. Their old RSS feed URL (http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf) generates a 301 "Moved Permanently"…
Yay for Google!
Google is supposedly about to start providing RSS feeds of their Google News headlines. That's great, and I guess I'll have to switch over from using my own Google feed…
Its purdy…
I think I've pretty much finished this round of site design updates. The key things I added/changed: The overall theme: the main text block is now "flexible" in size, and…
I have seen the light
Per my previous post, I have been working on an updated format for this site for the last couple of days. I just finished spending about two hours trying to…