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. Also, DNS has changed, so if you were still unable to reach this site after about 9am EDT today, it was probably a DNS propogation issue.
I’ve been trying to snatch a few minutes here and there to work on the automated spam blocking system that I proposed last week. Earlier today, I finished up one of the components, and I’m currently testing it. It seems to be performing as designed, so far. There are three pieces to the system, currently: ipupdate: A perl script which accepts an IP number as an argument. When run, it checks whether the IP already … Continue reading
Feeding the meme… These are my URL ABCs: A is for airbagindustries.com B is for blo.gs – and Bookmarks C is for cameronmoll.com D is for dougal.gunters.org – me me me me me! E is for easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect F is for feedmarker.com – like del.icio.us + feeds G is for google.com – Duh. H is for halr9000.com I is for intertwingly.net/blog – what a great word. J is for jeremy.zawodny.com/blog – just some Yahoo! out west … Continue reading
I am so sick of the damn spammers. Spammers are teh sux0r. Spammers are a festering boil on the ass of the Internets. I wouldn’t let a spammer kiss my butt with a pair of wax lips from ten feet away. If I ever see a spammer bleeding in a ditch, I will not be a Good Samaritan, I will kick him in the head, cover him up with dirt, and leave him there to … Continue reading
I’ve been informed that my host server will be relocated later tonight. So if you find that you can’t access the site for a while, that’s probably why. This will not be a migration to new hardware as mentioned previously, just a physical move of the existing hardware to a new location. Update: It looks like the move didn’t happen last night after all. So just be warned that the site could go down at … Continue reading
Faced with foot-high grass in our back yard and a no-show lawn service, we bought a lawn-mower this weekend. Yesterday, I spent about three hours (including a couple of water breaks and a fuel refill) beating the grass into submission. When all was said and done, our lawn was looking pretty nice. I’m really glad that we spent the extra money for a self-propelled mower. We’ve got about an acre of land, and that gentle … Continue reading
Have you ever wished that you could have your own wireless network available, wherever you go? How about a mobile wireless access point, GPS tracking, and a webcam in your car? Would that do the trick? The EVDO StompBox Project is just such a beast. So, if you’ve got about $700 and some time to blow, you’re all set! [via: BoingBoing]
I’m sure some of you have noticed that I’m experiencing occassional server problems. The host I’m on has been overtaxed, mostly due to spammer activity (both web and email varieties). There are times when the server load spikes up into the 20s, which is ridiculously high. To combat the problem, I set up a cron job which monitors the load level, and restarts apache and mysql when it goes above a certain threshold. However, for … Continue reading
If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing “Ruby this” and “Rails that” everywhere you go. But I don’t have time right now to be playing with a new development framework, however nifty it may be. Busy, busy, busy, that’s me. I’ve got my perl programming to do at the day job, and in those tiny little niches of time that I can nab for other things, it’s generally PHP for me. But maybe now we … Continue reading
Ping-O-Matic is one year old today. To think that my lowly little service pinger, originally created to help me gain an edge on BlogShares, is all grown up and sending out approximately 1 million pings per day! We’ve sent out pings on behalf of over a half-million individual blogs, and over 85 thousand in just the last week. I haven’t been able to give PoM as much attention lately as I’d like. I still have … Continue reading