Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Monday, August 10th, 2009
I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn't continue with it, for ... the same reason I'm not going to finish this sentence. ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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That'll teach me to be a cheapskate! Poditronic.com and spider.my are both served from my desk. DNS for my ADSL-conected (dynamic IP) server is free from ZoneEdit. Spider.my has a special feature on its homepage that checks the site's connectivity to the Internet. The ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_392" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Michael Jackson - from Wikipedia"][/caption]
I was manually adding some reports of Michael Jackson's death to the crawl queue at spider.my this morning, when I noticed that one of the machines doing indexing had choked on a page. It wasn't long ago that I added some code ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_360" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Canvey Island postcard from www.canveyisland.org.uk"][/caption]
I'm an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Jess asked me what was going on with bloggerunited.com yesterday, as there's currently only a domain-parking page there. I had a quick search online, and found LithiumMind's blog that suggested it was suffering from bandwidth exhaustion last month. I often wondered how much bloggerunited was paying for bandwidth, as they ...
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