Well, the arcterex.net box (naked) got an upgrade last night from a PII-200 to a Celeron 533 (the one that ran UFies.org for ages) so it was down for a bit last night. Today UFies.org will be down (and therefor mail, etc) due to Paralynx moving to a new office around 6th and 6th (or […]
Ups, Downs, and a Photo Read Post »
Looking through my logs a bit I noticed some very strange referrers. A couple of sites (maturewomangallery.net and theinceststories.com, neither of which I have any desire to visit) seem to be the sites that are set as the referrer for the IP 66.250.74.130. The ip only makes a request for “/“, and doesn’t load any
Where do you people come from!? Read Post »
There is a big debate going on in the blog community about the format of site syndication. It seems that some are trying to keep the old formats, and there’s all sorts of argument about the new (proposed) format. Tig had some good comments on this. I personally don’t care one way or the other,
Creating a Community Read Post »
Duh. I was told to shut the UFies box down at 10 sharp. I heard “am”, he said “pm”. Damn, box down for 3 hours now and I wondering what was going on (they had said 2 hours max). On a wim I gave Kelora a call and asked and she said that they were
My contribution to the Daily Photo, though it doesn’t seem daily anymore. This is a shot from a walk a few days ago where I thought that taking a picture of my feet would be sort of cool. In an effort to blur things and get the impression of speed a bit more I increased
Picture of the Day Read Post »
Normally I rate how the morning is going by how fast I can bound up the stairs to the break room for hot chocolate or a glass of water. This morning was one of the “walk really slowly and think about taking a break halfway up” mornings. Had a relatively lazy weekened. Saturday some friends
When they design bathroom stalls, do they figure out the dimensions by seeing what the absolute smallest space needed by a 70lb romanian midget? I’m just wondering is all.
I’m later than usual this morning so here are some things I don’t want to forget Hilarious video – work safe, funny, asf format. http://www.skadz.com/junt – has two amusing posts at the top. Will have to check back and peruse the rest of the site. Hi. I’m black! looks good as well, found via a
Some Random Morning Things Read Post »
For no reason at all my net dropped around mid morning. Might be the firecard locking up. Shaw’s routers seem to ping-pong traceroutes back and forth between themselves if there’s nothing on an IP though, which makes figuring out that your own system isn’t up hard (wouldn’t the standard non-response to indicate a non-host be
Grrr…. Internet Outage Read Post »