September 2007 Archives
In the world of computers there tend to those persons who are very specialized at one little thing and nothing else. They couldn't even begin to tell you the difference between html, which provides a means of describing the structure of text, and php, which is a reflective programming language originally designed for producting dynamic web pages.
I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE!!! Please excuse my yelling.
This has happened before and I am sure it will happen again. I get dragged into a project that involves a piece of technology which I am not permitted to have access to because it is sensitive. Fine. I don't want access to the sensitive information and I really don't care for the project either.
But when you imply that I don't know how to keep information 'secure' then you have gone too far.
Just to clarify, I am a Webmaster. To me, a webmaster is responsible for everything that is on the web. That means the webmaster is responsible for knowing how to setup and manage the webserver (apache, php, mysql, etc.). The webmaster is capable of (although maybe not a guru) developing graphics that work including knowledge of colors and how they impact the web. The webmaster should also be capable of developing in a number of different web languages including perl, php, xhtml, and javascript without using Dreamweaver or Frontpage or (Insert-Name-Of-WYSIWYG-Editor-Here).
And Lotus Notes is not web design.
/endrant
Our little bundle of joy is now 7 weeks and a few days old. Today, she progressed from milk to baby food. She has been stealing bits of food from us for the last week so we figured it was probably time to give it a try.
She took one nibble of the cereal and began screaming because momma didn't move the spoon fast enough between bowl and mouth.
I have in the past hosted my web stuff with a number of different hosts. In recent years I have primarily stuck with a couple of different hosts based on my needs and recently my needs required that I change hosts.
I had also gotten tired of waiting for cPanel to update from the old apache 1.x series to the new apache 2.x series. So, I dumped the old host and jumped to the other host.
The process required that I spend time rebuilding my DNS, Web, and Email server software which I hadn't done in about a year. Some things never change and many remain the same.
What does this all mean?
It means that my web stuff is a little bit faster and more responsive than it was before because the new host gives me more control and that means that I can tweak things to deal with reality a little better.
If you are seeing this then I may have actually done something right. More to come when I've finished breaking everything else.
While tending to the yard on Saturday I discovered a RIFA infestation. The discovery was made when I felt them stinging my left foot.
If you have never been on the receiving end of a RIFA attack let me tell you that you don't want to be.
Luckily, I tend to do my yard tending barefoot and in shorts or it could have been worse. Since I had no shoes on the first thing that the RIFA got hold of was my foot which meant that I felt the stings before they got above my ankle. I can only suspect that if I had been wearing the proper yard tending attire then they would have been able to climb higher and inflict more damage.
Right now I have at least 20 sting sites that have become small white pustules on my left foot.
Between the scorpions (Centruroides Vittatus), RIFA, and Spiders ([Black-and-Yellow Argiope] I have one of these in the backyard right now) I'm tempted to move back north where the cold weather would keep them at bay.
