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Meta: And we’re back!
Alright, I was able to restore my WordPress backup from October, manually re-add the blog entries I posted in Blogger, and made sure that everything at least mostly works. Cool. Tomorrow, a fresh blog post to celebrate!
Meta: Radio Silence
It’s been quiet here for the last week or so, for a few reasons:
- Halo 3: ODST came out a few weeks ago, and as an avid Halo fan (single-player, as I was never really in to multi-player) I’ve been working on beating the game in all difficulty modes. I recently just finished it in Heroic, and now I’m about half done Legendary. Proof? Right here (look under the Recent Games section).
- A conference! Last week, the company I work for hosted a conference that I provided technical support for (read: queuing up Power Point presentations and making sure the PA system worked). In other words, four 12+ hour days, followed by two days of catching up on my usual work.
- Left 4 Dead. Valve Software had a sale through Steam were you could grab Left 4 Dead for $15 USD, which sure beat the $45 CAD that the local Electronics Boutique wanted. I’ve been hammering away at that as well.
- Being social! I’ve actually been out with friends a few times in the last few days, which has slightly limited the amount of time I’ve put in to screwing with random shit on the computer.
However, I’ll have a post up at some point later tonight with a note about Apple’s latest update to the iPhone OS, 3.1.2, and the jailbreak for it released by Geohot.
Meta: Server Moved
If you see this post, it means your DNS provider has picked up the new DNS information. Congrats!
Meta: More Intermittant Downtime
My ISP (Shaw Cable) is starting to be a real pain – they’re currently experiencing rolling outages in my area due to ‘line noise’. As such, the site will be up-and-down for a while, and I’m considering switching to ADSL and ditching cable, although I hope it doesn’t come to that….
Meta: WordPress Upgrade and Theme Change
I updated to the newly released WordPress 2.8 yesterday, which subsequently broke the theme I was using (iNove). I updated to the latest version of the theme, but wasn’t very happy with the search box in the header area, so today I switched to Pyrmont V2 and I must say that I’m really happy with it!
In other news, I’ll be swapping the hinges and LCD back cover on my wife’s Acer Aspire 9300, with before/during/after photos. The hinges on this model are very stiff and eventually break the plastic case, and then warp themselves rending the laptop a desktop. They’ve already been replaced under warranty, so now it’s my turn to take a crack at it. Also, her hard drive is starting to show signs of immediate-total-failure in the form of disk read errors on boot, so that’ll be swapped along the way.
Meta: Connectivity Problems – Expect Delays
I contacted my service provider regarding a connectivity issue this afternoon. They said they’d send a tech on Monday to check things out. After an hour and a half of downtime, and a lot of swearing, things came back up.
I’m still not cancelling the service call — this has happened too many times in the last few months for there not to be something wrong.
Meta: Registration Required for Comments
Spam has started to become be enough of an issue that I’ve had to disabled anonymous comments – you now must register and login to post a comment. Accounts used by spammers will be shutdown and the spammers will be beaten with a large stick.