Keep out the comment spam bots! On the receiving end of much internet spam roach droppings, I understand the use of captchas, those random letter combos generated as graphics, intended to keep out the automated spam bots on web submission forms. I have used them myself. So I like them when the work for me, […]
flickr foto A Tree Swims in Arizonaavailable on flickr Hmmm, did some aerial agent drop this Christmas tree in our yard? Good shot! It landed in the pool! At least someone got to use the pool this year. Okay, actually we put the tree in here. On the advice of 2 different friends, it is […]
Not sure if the net really even noticed, but for the last few days CogDogBlog was been Four Oh Four, off-line, DOA, kaput, flat-lined.
It is almost ironic- on my plane flight out from Phoenix to Austin, a thought floated in my mind that I had not recently showed my gratitude to Audree, a colleague from my Maricopa days, who is not only a brilliant programmer (she coded the Maricopa eportfolio software), but for the last year, she has provided my free web hosting for CogDogBlog on a server she maintains for her outside work.
The irony was that she emailed me that night to let me know my apache web server was unable to handle out of the ridinary requests way out of control, and that it needed to go offline as it was dragging down the other web sites on her server…. and that she was getting out of the hosting business altogether. Apparently there was some nefarious action going on externally, no surprise considering the barrage of porn / pills/ casino comment spam lobbed this blog’s way.
Anyone per chance trying to get to the site might have seen some out of place electronics company’s web site… this is just an artifact of CDB being offline and the DNS falling over to some other one on Audree’s server. We should be widely available in another 24 hours.
I was not mad at all, and took it as my cue to rouse up a web hosting solution.. so taking D’Arcy’s frequent high praises, I set up an account at DreamHost, and like D’Arcy, said, it took minutes to set up the account. Next, I trucked over to GoDaddy to insert a new DNS entry. Then I went back to the old site, and started ftp-ing files from old server to new (Fetch makes this easy, just slide folders from one ftp window to another, server to server). I also used the phpMyAdmin on the old site to export the MySQL database (a 12 Mb blob), eventually ftp-ed to the new site,a nd sucked into the new site’s database via command line mysql.
It’s all there, easy-peasy. Gotta love databases.
Okay, now for some harsh barking, that I will place below the blog front page and RSS feed’s fold line.
At least I was home for the weekend! But Monday, and I made it through a 45 minute line at the security gate (hey folks get those dangerous gels inside the baggies!) for my flight to Austin. This week is the 2006 Pachyderm Users Conference — the first time around for this conference, but it […]
The point of cognitive desperation on a plane flight is reading the in-flight magazine (no there is one level lower, reading the Sky Mall catalog), but o my flight Thursday to San Francisco, I chuckled at a “map” of the US (under heading “Food Nation”) featuring city/place names that are also food names… and right […]
No web form open to comments goes un-spammed, so its no surprise that via 2 different YouTube accounts I have, that there have been a spate of unwarranted, message spam porn links from folks like “goodlife100” and “xacana10”. Sadly, YouTube, awash in Googlebucks, seems ill equipped to do anything about this. It’s hard to even […]
Are you trying to get a pulse on the wild west of the latest videos streaking across YouTube, or looking to out flank your friends who forward those funny flicks by email? Try Viral Video Chart: We scan several million blogs a day to see which online videos people are talking about the most. We […]
Another interesting web add-on I looked at today is snap “preview anywhere”. It is essentially a service, you enroll a web site URL, it generates a line of JavaScript that goes in the HEAD of your site’s pages (or better the single header template file). But what does it do? It adds a function so […]
Wow, I have stumbled into some amazing, attention distracting things recently! I am not sure I can describe drawballl (not that the site explains, but hey, somethings need discovery). The “Ball” is a giant round piece of canvas, where people can go in at a very small scale and draw, draw, draw will colors, creating […]
Just got back home from a tremendous 2 days of NMC meetings (wow, I never thought “tremendous” went with “meetings” but ours are) where I was able to check off one of my 43 people… the legendary Doug Engelbart. And of course the reflex association goes to “yeah, he’s the guy that invented the mouse…” […]
