Internet Goodness
Move complete!
If you are seeing this post, your DNS servers have updated and noticed that my old VPS on JaguarPC is no longer where they should look. My blog and other random shit has now been moved over to Linode, where they don’t block IRC and other things I run on my box.
Evolution
Evolution
A quick primer to send to any creationists you may know.
Edit: Apparently the Youtube Wordpress auto-post thing neglects to set the title.
VMware ESXi 3.5u4, Intel SATA, and local datastores
This morning I rebooted my test box running VMware ESXi 3.5 to complete the upgrade from Update 3 to Update 4. The hypervisor came back up, but no guests were running and when I popped open the VI Client it indicated that there were no datastores configured and it could not find any of […]
Billy Corgan has the right idea, but in the wrong direction.
According to CNET, Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins fame) went in front of Congress to argue against the exemption that allows terrestrial radio broadcasters to only pay songwriters and publishers, but not artists, for the right to play their music. Satellite and internet broadcasters by comparison must pay all three.
I’m 100% in favor of making […]
Goodbye ICQ, it’s been a good run
Just a few seconds ago I finally cleared the checkbox in Adium for my ICQ account. It was my longest-lasting instant message service account, having been active since 1998 or so, and I started using multi-service IM clients like Miranda, Trillian, and Adium entirely because I wanted to keep using ICQ even though most […]
Blasphemy Day International 2009
PZ over at Pharyngula linked to this Facebook group, so I had to share. Blasphemy Day International 2009.
Minor tweak
Turned off the Twitter digests, those were just silly and annoying.
A few more tweaks
Fixed the pretty URLs and RSS feed (blasted mod_rewrite), added Gravatar support, a tag cloud, and a download system that I may or may not ever use.
Wordpress 2.7 Upgrade Complete
The Subversion install/upgrade method wins again, bumping up to 2.7 was a single command while logged in as www-data on my server and then accesing wp-admin/upgrade.php
The internet is a hell of a way to pass time…
Since my parents are moving away some time in the next few months, I went with them down to my aunt’s house for Thanksgiving. It has been a fun trip overall, but since we drove the RV down that means in both directions I have a ~9 hour span of counting the mile markers.
For the last […]