Category: Site Info

So yes, I have added Google ads to my website. I might keep them; I might remove them. We will have to see. Why have I added them? All in all, this site doesn’t have much overhead. That I can recall, every piece of software is free so I pay for hosting (disk space, server…

As mentioned previously, I’m working on a Xanga mirroring plugin for Movable Type. In theory, it is functional but I have to modify the MT base code. I don’t like that since anytime I upgrade the base code, I would have to reinsert that code. Once I figure out how to make it a plugin,…

I’m about to upgrade the CMS to MT 3.2-beta-3. I’m currently running 3.16. 3.2b3 is supposed to be a near-final release so I’m secure enough with updating my actual site with it. Just to be safe, I dumped the db to my harddrive just in case everything is corrupted after upgrading! update: Upgrade complete. Now,…

Andrea, a dear friend of mine that I don’t have the chance to catch up with nearly enough, mentioned that she was bummed about me ending my manual mirroring of my site onto Xanga. For those not aware, I used to copy/paste all my posts onto Xanga so the vast number of my friends using…

Hostgator, my hosting solution uses cPanel to manage the site and download new fixes and whatnot. Recently, a perl module, DBD:mysql released a new version (3.000). Usually, I would have never noticed this except something about it causes my weblog’s content management system to freak out, resulting in a lovely 500 error. What does that…

I am slowly making the switch from Microsoft Outlook to various open-source applications. As part of my migration from Outlook to Thunderbird for e-mail, I have decided to give myself the option of secure e-mail. My public pgp key can be found online. You can use this key to verify that e-mails sent by me…