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I was going through some of my old photos today and ran across this one of Brian Dills and me at the Marshall University “Rally for Education”. Flood, Sevin, Dirt Bear, Falooda, and probably a couple other bands played it and nobody came. And when I say nobody I mean absolutely no one at all came. It was only the bands …read more »

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The She-Devil and Hippie Paulette are back again, baby! Here’s the …read more »

I got some new shoes over the weekend; they’re …read more »

Something screwy is going on with my webserver and Wordpress; I’m not sure what it is but there has been some erratic behavior on the admin side. Overall it works but I think maybe after installing some things and upgrading there might be something that’s not playing nice with Wordpress. [this problem seems to have been fixed with WP 2.5] The only really important thing was …read more »

After two years back at CPI I’m leaving again. I’m disappointed that it didn’t work out this time because I really thought it would; that’s why I decided to come back in the first place. Unfortunately the company and I were unable to come to an agreement on a number of things and when I was contacted by a recruiter for another company that made me a great offer I accepted.

So on December 26th I will be starting work for …read more »

SORBS is bullshit but the problem is two-fold. First, SORBS will not remove an IP address from their blacklist, regardless of whether or not they’re spammers. For instance, my IP is incorrectly listed by AT&T as being in a dynamic range. It’s not; it’s a static IP. I’ve never spammed anyone, intentionally or unintentionally. That doesn’t matter to SORBS; I’m still on their blacklist.

The second part of this problem is that some mail server admins blindly block all e-mail from any IPs on this blacklist, without doing any verification on their own. This also is bullshit.

The solution is not SORBS. They hide behind a claim that they cannot alter the list. Here’s their pathetic excuse: …read more »

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Christmas trees it’s to not buy one pre-lit. We’ve spent more time trying to get our pre-lit tree to actually light than we would have ever spent on just stringing the lights ourselves. Buy a good tree in two or three sections; that makes it easy to assemble. Then just …read more »

The server is now upgraded from Fedora 5 to Fedora 8. I normally don’t trust upgrades (thanks to Microsoft) but I decided to chance the Fedora upgrade. It’s been about a week and so far all is well.

While in Chicago I ran across a really cool service on the Internet. phpBB3now.com offers free, ad-free forums for the making. They use phpBB’s top-notch software for their forums and they also offer the phpbb3 portal, all integrated and ready to go. Setup is really simple; they walk you through all the steps and essentially do all the work for you. You provide the topic for your forum and in a matter of minutes it’s done.

I originally setup my DSSForum on the phpbb3now servers but …read more »