Category Archives: Administrivia
Hosting changes ahead
Making some hosting changes this weekend. Site may be down briefly or some domain weirdness may ensue. Mail shouldn't be affected, assuming I don't fat-finger any of the DNS stuff, since I'm not actually hosting my mail on the VPSes.
Back from vacation!
Time flies when you're having fun - and last week definitely flew by. Took a full week's vacation and it was great. Short, but great. Got to catch up on a lot of things around the house, spend time with the tribe at Adventure Island (with remarkably little sunburn!), see Zombieland with my brother, and [...]
Blog downtime
My hosting provider will be doing some work on September 10th, from 21:00 PST to 23:59 PST -- so my site may be down for 30 minutes to a few hours during that time.
The problem with challenge systems part two
Got this today when I responded to an email:
I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.
If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I [...]
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Wow... five years!
In a couple of days, my WordPress install will see its fifth anniversary. (Well, I've upgraded a couple of times since then...)
I started Dissociated Press in 2001, made a blog out of it in 2002 with phpWebLog, and tried out Slashcode and a few others before settling on WordPress five years ago.
With any luck, 2009 [...]
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Back from Tasmania
Got back in late last night from Tasmania. Long trip - takes about 36 hours to get back and forth between Tampa, Florida and Hobart, Tasmania.
This is my second trip to Australia, but I didn't pack in much time for fun this time around. I had one day to check out Hobart, after Linux.conf.au, which [...]
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