Site news

Apparently I’m both dumb and ignorant. A few weeks back, in the early to mid February time frame, I made some very rapid changes to this site. Basically, I upgraded to a newer version of PHPNuke in about thirty minutes- I had my reasons. (more…)

Google has once again changed the structure of their news feed. As a result, you will notice that the Google news links above don’t seem to work. They actually do incorporate the correct news URL, but they include some other junk at the beginning.

(more…)

Its official: the new server hardware for this site is now in place!

My apologies for the sporadic availability of this site during the last few days. All three of you are probably incensed :-) But as with any upgrade of this type involving hobbiest hardware and configurations, it wasn't smooth.

There were a ton of bits and pieces that I had installed software-wise over the last year, some of which were critical to operating certain pieces of the site. Stuff like php-cli, nc, and other things of that ilk. But to add insult to injury, the new versions of several key pieces of the site (E.G. Apache, PHP) now handle configuration files differently. As "obvious" as certain directives no longer working, and as subtle as required environment variables now needing different initial values. So I couldn't just copy over my old config files and call it a day.

With all of this hassle, you are probably wondering why I did this. I refer back to one of my previous entries here

The old server was an 866 MHz Pentium III. More than adequate for my needs. But now the server is running on a dual processor "2000+" (1.66 GHz) AMD Athlon configuration. Processing-wise, at least, I now have four times as much power. And a larger hard drive: nearly twice as big.

Of course, the most important thing is that I've freed up some hardware to use for building Irene a new computer. Yeah, that's the ticket... :)

The website has been down quite a bit today. I'm installing upgrades and, as is often the case with such things, it hasn't gone perfectly Right now the server is…

I've taken some of the essays and other content I had on my old website and made them available here. Some of them are a bit out of date: even…

If you have a strong stomach, you may want to follow this link

Are you back? Did you survive? That was my third or fourth website, and was my “main” web presence for several years. I cancelled my Geocities “Professional” account some months ago, and just sort of assumed that the website itself would go away. Instead, they seem to have reverted it back into the “free” (I.E.: advertising besmirched) Geocities service. (more…)

This site is a collection from the junk drawer of my life. You are welcome to rummage around, but try not to misplace my screwdriver!

....