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We’ve got merch!

30 December, 2005 (18:05) | Technical Considerations | By: hitch

I’ve finally gotten around to opening a Cafepress storefront – click this link to go to my Cafepress storefront. Yes. I’m over-plugging this. Dude. I’ve got SHIRTS. Right now I only have two – one that came from a conversation with my brother-in-law, and one from a drawing I did. Expect more, soon, including one [...]

Redesign

19 December, 2005 (15:17) | Technical Considerations | By: hitch

So the site desperately needed to be updated – in many many ways. It’s not perfect – it’s not even particularly *good*, but I knew I’d never get to it at all if I didn’t do SOMETHING. So there it is.

We’re up!

4 November, 2005 (18:14) | Technical Considerations | By: hitch

Just moved over to the new host. It’s not exactly “lightning fast”, but it’s a heck of a lot faster than the previous system. (for the record – instead of hitting “submit” on that last post and waiting 30 seconds or more, it went right through. YAAAYY!!!)

Would that the comment spam would stop…

23 October, 2005 (08:43) | Lifestuff, Technical Considerations | By: hitch

so maybe it’s been too long. I’ve heard that comment spam robots find inactive blogs and flood them with posts. I’ve got blocks in place that they don’t get what they’re after – the spam never actually reaches the site – but it’s still annoying to wake up wit 150 “please moderate comment x” messages [...]

Hardware, power, money, maintenance

7 July, 2005 (12:28) | Technical Considerations | By: hitch

Huge, ginormous, nasty electrical storm a few days ago – it fried the primary ethernet card in this system. Everything is now limping along, painfully slowly – I can’t even begin to say how much of a cluster this whole thing has been. I’m just about at the point where I bite the bullet and [...]