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The Mommy Blog Bog

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:53:11 -0800

Oh Christ on a crutch, the Daily Kos started up a new site, Mother Talkers. It's a fucking mommy blogger heaven (see Blogs, Women, and Mommies), boring as all hell, and just another ghetto for women to get shoved into...

They Never Learn

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:50:18 -0800

They really never fucking learn. I have all three of my blogs set to comment moderation. This means that comment spam is never seen by the readers. Wasted time and electrons. But some "Mike Furir nnn" person using a bot...

Niceness?

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:12:42 -0800

I've been too nice lately. It's downright scary. In fact, it's been months since I had a work related rant, or even a foaming geek rant in general. Oh, I could wax ballistic about the annoyances of supporting Win XP...

Disclaimer and Stuff

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:47:46 -0800

It should be obvious, but needs to be said: Anything I post on here is my opinion, or is reported as data on which I may or may not have formed an opinion. It is not the opinion of my...

Getting Tough

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:05:39 -0800

...With blog comment spammers, of course. I first put all of my blogs on comment moderation. I still ended up deleting *TWENTY* damn pieces of drug, porn, or gambling spam *per* *week*. ...

Stupid Blog Link Spammers

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:07:58 -0800
Dumb fuckers. Don't they realize that I'm not publishing their shit anymore? I delete, unpublished, at least a dozen drug and sleazy sex pushing "comments" a week. They never see the light of the web. OTOH, this guy had to...

Domain Damnation

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:02:15 -0800
I administer a bunch of domains: mine, my roomies', plus for our friends and relatives. Ordinarily it isn't a problem. Today it was. It started saturday. I had three domains remaining to transfer off of our old hosting - you...

Fruckstration

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:57:48 -0800
PCL, PJL, PS and filters. Aaaargh! This shit should fit together, but nobody has built a roadmap, just big, fat perl scripts to sweep the problem under the rug. Then, of course, there's $KID at $JOB who can read an...

Windows Sux

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:32:09 -0800
Again, I have to go to Sacramento. Apparently the only thing we didn't swap, the hard drive, has something majorly corrupted or something. He's going to do a backup, and we are simply going to swap the entire damn box....

No, You Can't Print

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:38:48 -0800
Why in the hell is it that all of the latest Linux printing tools are friggin' HUGE. Cups is huge, foomatic is huge, and wants Perl, which is even bigger. Even simple LPRng is a massive piece of crap that...

Mail Down

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:08:05 -0800
What is it with hosting providers? I've been trying to log in to my https webmail for the last hour, and it's down - just does the stupid loading go round thing in the tab. I almost have all of...

Tech Support

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:27:18 -0800
Murphy's Law. Whenever you plan on a purely vegetative weekend ...

I Hate Sh!t That Doesn't Work

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:53:41 -0800
Grrr. Ther is a routine that is part of network booting Linux called "pivot_root", that gets called in the "linuxrc" script (nash) in the initrd file. It is supposed to swap your root filesystem to the one that you will...

Revived Blistering Blog

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:40:23 -0800
My hosting provider terminally fucked up my blogs with a supposed "upgrade". I now have a new provider, but my databases were so screwed up that I have to start over! Since there were very few entries in my old...