I confess I am a web tool junkie. Surely everybody who’s had to deal with me on a project was heard something like, “why don’t we use a wiki for that?” or “why not tag the resource links on del.iciou.us?” or “ewwww, a listserv, that is so 1980s”. It’s a reflex, likely annoying. If I […]
I cannot say for most of my life that I really listened to, or was a fan of Johnny Cash. Somewhere I knew he was the “man in black” and had done a concert inside a prison. But I chalked him up to country music (like Jake and Elwood said, “yep, we got both kinds […]
D’Arcy, you with the apostrophe in your first name (!), tagged me with the Five Things meme. So here are five things likely not widely known about the human behind CogDogBlog: Until I was 22, I had not traveled farther west than the Appalachian Mountains (except for the 3 days I attended New Mexico Institute […]
Living, working, sometimes too immersed in web technology, I am taken back by interactions where situations seem o cry for a more technological approach. My doctor’s office stuck out twice today. On a visit to a PA to deal with some ongoing leg pain (keeping me from running, grumble), she remarked as she was scribbling […]
I was a fence sitter on the value of coComment, which in theory allows you to track the comments you make on other web sites, blogs together. Interesting concept, yet often marginal execution, and today, frustration, as the browser wheel spun and spun and spun waiting for coComment to do whatever it does behind the […]
Many times I have said, er boasted, that pretty much form the time I started this ed tech computer work, I’ve made it a habit to give away, for free, just about anything I’ve made. I do believe it comes back to you. And it has, in the forms of invitations to visit some wonderful […]
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, […]
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 […]
