Archive for the 'Geeky Stuff' Category

I’ve been hosting my blog from my house since its inception, but with the prospect of not being near my servers for maybe months (and the fact that one tends to go down every week or so) I decided to get myself a hosting provider and move my blog there.

So, if you’re reading this, it’s coming from the servers of webhost4life.com. Setup was a little sticky, but the techs there were able to get me fixed fairly quickly.

At least now I won’t have to haul ass home when something goes down to fix it, so that will be a nice change.

So apparently, all the efforts to cut emissions from cars, factories, and the like have had an effect after all. The lower amount of air pollution is leading to “global brightening”, which means that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground is increasing. Yay, sunshine!

However, there is something else that comes along with global brightening.

More sunlight and thus heat reaching the ground could partly explain the record global temperatures reported in the late 1990s, and it could accelerate the warming trend.

So all the environmental laws we’ve put on the books to stop air pollution could be causing the so-called “global warming” effect?

How about that?

I fixed the referrers section in my sidebar that was causing the sidebar to spill over into the main frame.

All is well again.

It seems one of my neighbors has recently acquired a wireless router. I’m surfing on it now. Must be fairly decent, our houses aren’t that close together, and I’m getting a 24Mbs connection.

They did nothing to secure it. No encryption, and they didn’t even change the default username and password on their router. So I have that up in another window. And they have a computer running, so I’m able to access everything on it as well.

And from the contents, I can tell which neighbor it is. I’m debating telling him about it. But then there’s the drawback of not having free Internet access via their connection. And the ability to read their emails and check out their photos.

Ok, I’m not that evil. I’ll tell him about it tomorrow.

And ask about the photos with the strippers. Even if his wife is there.

Earlier I noticed that my site was loading slowly. Turned out to be the TrueFresco referrers list. So I took that out. About an hour ago, I noticed the Ecosystem was causing slow loads, so I took that out.

Now, Blogrolling seems to be down, and that’s causing my site to load slowly.

Arrrrgh.