Monthly Archives: November 2007

Database backups and analytics.

I've finally got­ten off my lazy ass and imple­mented data­base back­ups. I don't move enough data to worry about some­thing overkill like data­base repli­ca­tion and dump­ing, so I am just falling back on WipeOut's Auto­Mysql­Backup script. Addi­tion­ally, I had no idea that there was a robust fork of webal­izer, named aww­full. It's got a few extra fea­tures but the thing …

November 17, 2007 – 4:19 pm | | Posted in general, site meta | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Free Rick Marshall

Rick Mar­shall has a story to tell. After "part­ing ways" with Wiz­ard Mag­a­zine ear­lier this month, Rick has been blog­ging about it very pub­licly for the last few days. The online comic book indus­try sites seem to be sup­port­ing this, and it doesn't seem like it's sim­ply because they've all hated Wiz­ard for years. For the …

November 17, 2007 – 12:15 am | | Posted in diatribes, friends, general, informational, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

CSSEdit & TextMate = L-O-V-E

I don't know if I've ever per­son­ally men­tioned this and I know I'm years late to the party, but it bears repeat­ing that CSSEdit and Text­Mate are two of the only appli­ca­tions I miss when I'm on a Linux machine. One could argue that there is always (re: eter­nally) going to be vi/vim or emacs, but in my …

November 16, 2007 – 11:59 pm | | Posted in applications | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Consolidation

I'm shut­ting down pretty much every sin­gle domain I own, orangefort.com included, while I work out what to do with all of them. I've ceased all con­tract­ing work on the side, and I'm scal­ing back the ambi­tions I've poured a lot of the last year into. Basi­cally, if it's not my full time job, cook­ing, or unpack­ing from the …

November 1, 2007 – 1:19 pm | | Posted in general, informational, site meta | Comments Off