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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
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.
Math is fun!
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
is the hexadecimal representation (with leading zero to round off to 32 hex digits) of
13256278887989457651018865901401704640 decimal
which amazingly enough, is equal to the huge prime number
13256278887989457651018865901401704613 + 3^3 (i.e. + 27)
Astonishingly, the next prime after that is only 31 away, so our famous number can also be represented as
13256278887989457651018865901401704671 - 31
It is also very interesting because it is also equal to the product of the following prime numbers:
2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12043 * 216493 * 836256503069278983442067
Truthfully, when was the last time you saw any remotely similar number? Never, right? We better record this for mathematical posterity!!!
:-)
Up until this evening, I've largely ignored internet advertising in all it's forms. I haven't blocked it, I haven't even thought about it because in most cases it was never intrusive nor bothersome.
This evening I made the choice to begin blocking ads. I started by downloading the Adblock extension for firefox and then configuring it to block the IntelliTXT ads. If you haven't seen these, they are the ads that randomly double-underline words and pop-up a window when you roll over that word.
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