Tag Archives: this-site

Running in place

2/27/2006 – 1:13 pm

I’m still here. I’ve just been really busy lately. We’re going through some minor growing pains at my day-job, and it’s kept me really tied up. It’s nothing bad, just that the company is moving from a very loose and informal culture to a slightly more structured one. [...]

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Downtime

2/7/2006 – 10:39 am

Some of you might have noticed that my site had some downtime over the weekend, and into Monday night. I had upgraded MySQL from version 3.23.x to version 5.0 last week. Everything seemed fine at the time, but when the server ran some maintenance tasks on Saturday night, it turned up some mismatched library versions between PHP and MySQL. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in MySQL, Servers | Also tagged , | Comments (7)

Upgraded

12/21/2005 – 1:37 pm

I went ahead and took the plunge: this site is now running WordPress 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine so far, despite some of the ugly hacks I have in my home-grown “Rock’em Sock’em Robots” theme. I’m not using the new WYSIWYG editor, as I prefer to write my post markup by hand. [...]

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Sorry for the downtime

10/27/2005 – 10:13 am

Whoops! I made a change to my template code yesterday and broke the site without realizing it. I thought I had verified that the code was working, but I must have pulled the page from my cache. . [...]

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Server trouble

8/17/2005 – 12:45 pm

My server has experienced some downtime over the last couple of days. Probably my own fault, due to some changes I made in some service monitor scripts. After trying to manually wrangle things for a while and still experiencing mysterious performance issues, I finally rebooted the box this morning. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Servers | Comments (0)

Round up

8/10/2005 – 9:46 am

I was going to post several small items yesterday, to make up for the lull in activity, but my server was down for the better part of the day. When the other admin finally got it rebooted, some of the database tables had some minor corruption, so if you visited late yesterday you might have seen some warning messages. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Hardware | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

Now playing…

7/7/2005 – 9:49 am

About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Music, Tech | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (14)

Spam on the rise again?

6/17/2005 – 11:48 am

Has anybody else noticed a sharp increase in blog spam activity lately over the past couple of weeks? The number of firewall rules on my system generated by SpamValve was down below 40 not too long ago, but now it’s back up to over 100 again. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Spam | Also tagged , , | Comments (17)

SpamValve update

5/6/2005 – 10:13 am

I’ve been pretty busy at work, so I haven’t done much more work on my auto-firewall code in the past couple of days. But it seems to be holding its own pretty well. [...]

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Server moved

5/5/2005 – 9:03 am

Last night, my host finally relocated my server (as previously mentioned). The move occurred around 3am EDT. For some reason, apache didn’t automatically restart when the machine came back up, and I had to start it manually this morning. So the web site was down for about 6 hours. [...]

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