Yes, you read that right. It’s time for another entry in the Script Sharing category. It’s been a damn long time since I’ve posted anything here, but I’ve actually been doing a lot of scripting, and I just realized that I had some potentially useful stuff lying around. So hopefully I’ll be able to post [...]
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of users registering to the site, but fewer and fewer comments. So I’ve become suspicious of these new user registrations as the only advantage to registering is that commenting becomes ever so slightly easier. That and the fact that a lot of the names just sound so spammy. So [...]
As I mentioned a while back, I recently switched to a new web hosting provider, Media Temple. I wanted to provide a bit more detail as to why. About a month-and-a-half ago I was uploading some new content to my personal site, which hosts a fair amount of video and audio for download, on my [...]
So if you’ve been obsessively checking the site tonight — and you really should have been — you may have noticed a bit of unscheduled downtime. This was just me trying to be clever and failing miserably. See, I’ve moved to a new web hosting provider, and I wanted desperately to make the transistion seamlessly. [...]
Sorry for the self-indulgence. I realize that the bulk of posts here have been about the blog itself. This is a passing phase due the the newness of self-publishing. And by passing, I mean it will pass. Promise. That said, one of the great things about self-hosting this site is that I now have easy [...]
Hello everyone! I’m back! Things have been going extremely well at the new job and the new home, and they’re finally settling down to a pace at which I find myself able to write. And, what with the new job and all, I’ve got about a jillion things to write about. But I’ve been holding [...]
I’ve attempted this post twice now, and it never seems to come out right. It’s one of those future-of-the-blog type posts that everyone hates so much, but it’s kind of a biggie. So here goes attempt number three. MIA Regular readers may have noticed the blight of posts lately (with the exception of the pre-programmed [...]
Today The Adventures of Systems Boy turns 3! I totally spaced last year’s anniversary — so I was totally shocked to realize that it’s been 3 years, not 2 that I’ve been doing this. But this year I’m catching it in time thanks in part to Blogger’s new scheduling feature (currently in beta as of [...]
I don’t monitor my traffic, but I don’t think I have a really heavy readership. Every now and then I have a minor hit, but for the most part we’re pretty hardcore systems administration around here. It takes a very special kind of geek to follow exploits such as Tiger Lab Migration, Three Platforms, One [...]
I’m not sure why, but the concept of the WYSIWYG HTML editor has really taken a beating. The most recent comment I’ve heard comes from Shawn Blanc’s review of MarsEdit, an offline blog editing product. Shawn says that: “In all my experience with WYSIWYG editors I have found them a clumsy enemy of fine web [...]