The other day, the server I share with the other bicycle/computer nerd Will (yes, there are two of us) went down.
I called my friend Paul who basically runs the datacenter the box lives in to give him a heads up I’d be heading over. Paul was already having a rough work day, but still carved [...]
A while ago, I was introduced to the Cult of Done. For me, it is quite simple, quite obvious, and I identify with it on a number of levels.
In the spirit of the manifesto set forth and in combination with a generally needed re-ordering of my day-to-day schedule and goals, I’ve figured out a calendar, [...]
I got a call (well, a text, really) this morning, prompting me to hurriedly run out of my house and head to the office. My linux server, the workhorse, the reliable one, was apparently offline. Suck.
I get there, and while it is powered up, it is absolutely unresponsive. Might as well had been off. So, [...]
So I implemented that mod_rewrite hack (but added string sanitizing, etc.) on a project for a client.
The other morning, it failed spectacularly. It was definitely one of those “But it worked fine yesterday” moments that we all love.
In this instance, the host uses cPanel (an out-of the-box hosting solution), and I was not able to [...]
Venom’s Aaaaaaarrghh from their 1983 album At War with Satan.
Thanks to an article from SANS ISC, I have been working for the past two weeks on a new spam-reduction technique for WordPress.
It’s really simple, only 2 lines of code, really.
The first is in the comments.php page (if your custom theme doesn’t have this file, use the one from the default theme).
Around line 80 (right [...]
My morning was looking up. I felt awake and alert. Ready to be productive.
Then I took a hit of the Robotussin, to help with the removal of phlegm left in my lungs from my extended weekend sickness.
Well, that was dumb. I feel fuzzy, and I still have work to do. Blargh.
Well, barring evening fuzziness, Lara, [...]
I just finished a work day that started at 8:30am.
I worked at the office all day, then at the R for a few hours, then at a location or two for a project with Jonah that I undershot / misjudged.
Tomorrow is looking to be the same, except replace working at the R with a (hopefully [...]
One year ago today, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, but you already know this.
One year ago today, I was at our Houston office on a planned business trip.
In 15 minutes, I’ll be heading to the airport to fly to Houston, to go to our office. However, instead of migrating data and setting it up to [...]
One of my users here at work runs a Dell Optiplex GX270. It’s a good workstation. Plenty of RAM, processing power, and disk space for a plain old workstation.
Recently, it started getting all wonky (yes, that’s a technical term). It was weird. It seemed to be an Office issue – while sorting email or using [...]
