Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Testing timestamp. I just realized all my posts have been 10 hours off.

I’ve switched blog software over to WordPress, so forgive me if things are a little wonky around here for a while.

Kill the golden goose, assholes. Thanks to comment spammers, my server got totally bogged down. Therefore, commenting is disabled. I’m going to have to look into another blogging system where the comments aren’t so easily targeted by the bottomfeeders.

Anyway, here’s a quiz – can anyone identify this song?

While I have oft touted the merits of my hosting company after my horrible experience with Featureprice, lately I’ve been frustrated with the need for more disk space, as well as a Perl module which isn’t installed on the server and is causing MT-Blacklist to fail. I went in to look at all my pending comments the other day, and spent two hours cleaning out spam. All that time netted me about a week’s worth of clean comments – and I had several more months to go through.

After some serious research on Webhosting Talk, I checked out Site5.com* and decided to go with them. They seem to have a great reputation and their package – 5 gigs disk space, 90 gigs bandwidth, 12 domains, one-click installation of a bunch of programs, ssh access – far exceeded what I currently have, for a lower price.

Anyway, part of their promotion right now is that they will attempt to transfer all the stuff to my new account from my old hosting company, which is yet one more thing less I have to do. If the site goes down sometime this week, it’s because I’m switching the DNS records to Site5.

*Disclosure – that’s a referral site link. If you sign up with them through it, they’ll put credit on my account.

That didn’t take very long. Between enabling non-registered users to post comments and now, a grand total of 8 minutes, I got 3 spams. Oy gevalt.

I’ve moved our Alaska photos from the previous location into my gallery at http://gallery.addlepated.net. The Alaska pics can be found here.

You know how hard it is to find a shirt with a pink AR-15 on it?

Not anymore!

I jump through hoops to get rid of the comment spammers and then today I get 90 trackback spams. Sheesh. So I’ve renamed my trackback script, and it won’t work anymore. Spammers suck the joy right out of life.

Go check out ARGN, lots of exciting news in the last week!