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Apr 1, 2004
By | Posted at 17:22:37
Remember last year when I joked about being Dan Richardson? Well, now I'm in trouble. It seems like the real Dan Richardson read that post and is suing me now for tarnishing his name. Here's the letter I got today from his attorney:
Johkin, Laffen and Funknee, LLP
Dear Mr. Butler:
Our client has notified us that you have engaged in acts of impersonation of his identity on your site. Our client has since received questions from potential employers who found this information when searching the Google search engine about him. We have calculated a net loss of over $28,000 in actual damages since you posted this message last year.
This is your official notice that our client is filing suit against you and shall attempt to retreive the $28,000 plus punitive damages for this disgraceful action on your part. If you are interested in settling this dispute, our client is open to accepting $26,000 upfront to drop litigation.
Thank-you,
Arntu Laffen
Johkin, Laffen and Funknee, LLP
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Mar 28, 2004
By | Posted at 16:24:56
The referer script is finished. Only it isn't just a referer script anymore. And to represent that, it has become heir of the name that I gave my first published CGI script. Count+Stat is hopelessly outdated these days, so bring on Count+Stat Remote!
Here's what this puppy can do:
- Show a list of referers.
- Adjustable minimum to display (one referral, two referrals, etc.)
- Adjust whether the information just comes out as one referer per line or as a nicely formatted HTML list.
- Choose whether to show non-referred hits in the list or not.
- Hide referrals coming from your own page and/or site.
- Keep a separate count and list of referrals for each page or unify all of the information on a per-domain basis.
- Show a text counter of hits and visits.
- Show both at once.
- Be an almost invisible little box that just tracks the stats for your private perusal.
- Turn all of this information into an interesting statistics page.
- And even more… This is the kitchen sink of referer list tools.
Thoughts? Problems? Successes? Please post 'em below. If you have suggestions for improvements I will try to implement them if they are feasible within my time limitations.
Update: I forgot to mention that you can find a sample of the script in action at the bottom of my blog pages. I have it set to show two days worth of referrals formatted as a list, without self-referrals, with non-referred hits, a two-referral minimum and the counter.
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Mar 26, 2004
By | Posted at 6:35:47
Yesterday was one of those days. I spent most of the day answering phones (I think I was in phone central) so inbetween, rather than start some important project I'd keep getting interrupted on, I decided to write a JavaScript referer system like I has said I would do over on Michael's site. After I started I noticed someone posted a URL to an existing replacement script, but I was undeterred — instead of stopping I just added more functionality to my script.
For the moment I'm setting it up so that you can use it just by inserting a little JavaScript (like the old system). I'm also contemplating releasing the backendcode under the GPL for anyone who might want to install the entire system on their own server (as opposed to using JavaScript), but I'll worry about that later on.
I'll post more information about it soon for anyone interested.
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Mar 22, 2004
By | Posted at 14:27:13
[Thanks (or maybe not) go to Christopher]
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Mar 21, 2004
By | Posted at 16:58:52
Well, I got asisaid moved over to the new server, as I noted a few posts ago, but I haven't gotten much further. I made a copy of the rest of my sites last weekend, but this past week was so busy that I didn't make the switch over. Now the copy of the sites I made is outdated. sigh
I'm hoping to get OfB and company moved early this week so that posting can resume (and I can stop be billed from two web hosts). It appears that OfB operated mailing lists have quit working, so the sooner the move the better.
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Mar 13, 2004
By | Posted at 18:40:57
Perhaps it was the fact that, despite forgetting to write about it, my blog turned two on March 4. Maybe it was something else. But, I spent a little while tonight browsing the Internet Archive's WayBackMachine looking at some of my favorite blogs back when I first discovered them. In particular, I was looking at the two blogs I've been reading the longest that still exist: Sakamuyo and What in Tarnation!?!?!?.
It was interesting to look back into what Kevin and Christopher were saying in 2002. It was interesting to see what the respective sites looked like at the time. Sakamuyo was still in its green theme with Kevin talking about his new hard disk on which he was going to install two or three GNU/Linux distributions (Kevin has since betrayed the PC world and switched to Mac). On the other hand, I took a look at WIT as of November 2002, when I first started reading it, and Christopher was answering a Friday Five about thanksgiving (incidentally, that post was the first one I commented on at his site).
That's definitely one of the great things about WayBackMachine — it's really neat to get a snapshot of the way things were a few years back. Maybe reminiscing about web sites is a geeky thing to do, but when you've come to think of the people behind the sites as friends, maybe its not. It is sort of like a blending together of a photo album and old news paper clippings. Or something like that. A nice thing to do on a Saturday afternoon when nothing else terribly urgent had to be done.
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By | Posted at 6:57:50
Arguably one of the most discussed movies in years, if not decades, I had somewhat mixed feelings going to see the Passion of the Christ. For the most part, I wanted to see it, but the violence did concern me - would it be violent just for the sake of violence?
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Mar 11, 2004
By | Posted at 17:39:48
I will review the Passion. I just didn't want to do a quick review, and it seems the only time I get time for this is around this time of night when I'm just too lazy to do anything other than a short post complaining about how I don't have time to write anything.
Feel like a joke? Good, because if you didn't, you'd still get one.
A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stuck on a desert island. All of a sudden a sealed can of soup floats onto the short. The physicist says, “Let's bash it open with some rocks and grab the condensed soup as it flies through the air.” The chemist says, “No, let's put the can over a fire and heat it up.” The economist says, “Assume there was a can opener.”
G'night all!
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Mar 9, 2004
By | Posted at 18:8:25
I didn't have time to write anything today. Maybe I'll get my thoughts on the Passion up tomorrow. I hope so!
I'm hoping to be able to post more often again now that I have my server coming along. It's taken a few weeks to get it all arranged, but I hope that things should be running smoothly now…
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Mar 8, 2004
By | Posted at 17:40:32
We're a movin' on up, (We're a movin on up.)
To the east side.(Mo-vin on up.)
To a de-luxe apartment, In the sky-.
Mo-vin' on up (Mo-vin on up.)
To the east side, (Mo-vin on up.)
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Pop quiz: without using Google or another search engine, what theme song is that? First person to get it will be rewarded with 10 asisaid points (Christopher presently holding the only other asisaid points — 10, I believe).
At any rate, welcome to the “other side.” If you are reading this you are on Cedar, asisaid.com's new home. Let me explain. This all started back in January of 2002 when I started ChristianSource FSLUG — a Christian Linux group mailing list. I was unhappy after a few months with cPanel's version of Mailman, so I installed my own copy. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how fast the archives would grow on the site. That along with other growth on my sites pushed my account to over 400 megs in size from about 100 megs previously (not counting my clients' web sites) and I realized I had two choices: upgrade my hosting plan or figure something else out.
As the exponential growth of the archives promised to eat up larger quotas fast, and even a few hundred more megs really would keep me from some things I've wanted to do for a long time, I realized “plan A” wasn't really all that great. And, my host's next upgrade in plan size would cost $20 more a month for only a little extra space unless I split up my sites into several smaller accounts, and even then I wasn't improving the situation much.
Enter an advertisement from 1&1, Germany's largest web host (and sister company to GMX), which recently started offering U.S. services. They spent the last few quarters of 2003 giving away shared 3-year hosting plans (I signed up for one I'm not presently using). That's getting off track — when I signed up, I ended up on their newsletter list and got an announcement for a $50 dedicated server. That sounded pretty reasonable — I was paying more than that for shared hosting!
Okay, but would I really be satisifed with a $50 dedicated server? Yeah the specs were great, but I sat on hold for 20 minutes to talk to anyone on the phone and sales e-mail responses took days to get replies to. Ok, so scratch that off the list. Same went for iPowerWeb's $50 server. Then there was BurstNET/Nocster's $59 server, but BurstNET seems to be just as unreliable as it was when I fled from their shared hosting facility in 2001 (and sales never responded — that's a step down from before).
By then, I realized that the benefits of a dedicated server were great and there just wasn't any turning back. Unfortunately, everything pointed in a direction I didn't want to go — a more expensive server package approaching $100/month. But, I decided maybe I could live with that.
Then I got the idea to sell a few basic hosting accounts, which inevitably lead to upgrading to a better server… all told, I signed up for a mid-grade server from ServerMatrix, a subsiderary of The Planet, a large datacenter in Dallas, TX, that had the largest percentage of growth for a good part of last year, according to Netcraft.
Cedar, as you might have guessed, is my server. You can see its uptime info here. Asisaid is the first of my sites to move to Cedar, but more will be moving over the next week or so. Eventually it will house all of my sites, my web design clients' sites and a few additional basic accounts purchased by CS-FSLUG members in recent weeks.
At any rate, for the first time, I'm leaving a hosting company that I really don't want to leave. I've spent two and one half years at HostingMatters, and I still think they are the best hosting company in the business. ServerMatrix's support is great too, but it's different — a basic managed server is quite different from a quality shared host, since you are still suppose to do most of the work (thus support surrounds a different set of issues). Plus, HM's small size allowed one to “get to know” the team. It was nice.
At any rate, enough rambling. Welcome to cedar. I'm hoping this will turn out to be a Good Thing (apologies to Martha on that).
By the way, asisaid is officially endorsing Bush-Cheney '04 in the Feedster tracking of blogs support for candidates.
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