Archive for February, 2008

Comcast blocking access to website

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I have Comcast broadband service at home and have determined that it is surely blocking my access to the website of one of my clients. I thus decided to contact Comcast tech support through live chat to try to remedy this. However I only succeeded in getting someone clueless who claimed it was a problem [...]

Thanks!

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

For some reason my MySQL database keeps crashing (grrr!). My site was also down pretty much all day yesterday due to some kind of power outage… Combined with crappy .htaccess file support I’ve had to hack my way around it’s clearly time to switch hosts! Somehow I got over 400 visitors on Friday which I [...]

Not a screen test…

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Despite my having no on-screen experience whatsoever I somehow was invited to do a guest segment on a web broadcast show focused on tech. Unfortunately, it being unscripted AND my first time in front of a video camera, I was way too nervous to say anything intelligent and resorted mostly to “um” interspersed with barely [...]

TOTORO!

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Sadly, this is not my car.