I’m often asked for the source code used to create the text ads system on nancies.org. Every time somebody asks for me, I have to extract it from nancies.org, remove all of the garbage, clean it up, and package it up. So, for those who would like a text ads system, I’m releasing this quick-and-dirty …
Category Archives: Tech
DSL, websites down, now up.
Well, that sucked. Sprint — who is the ILEC without a CLEC in my neck of the woods — took down our DSL in the process of repairing our telephone line on Thursday morning. We’ve had no Internet connection until just five minutes ago. Since I host two of my own servers, most of my …
cvillenews.com relaunch.
Last night, I relaunched cvillenews.com on the occasion of its fourth birthday. I converted the site from PostNuke to WordPress (the software that runs this blog right now), and it seems to be working. The DNS updates will prevent many people from seeing the site until around 9pm tonight, but I’m looking forward to see …
New RPV website.
The Republican Party of Virginia has set up a new website. It looks good — it’s quite an improvement over their old site. On the downside, it has no RSS, it doesn’t flex, the front page is a whopping 107k (a 21 second download on a 56k modem) and the code doesn’t even come close …
C’ville discussion forum.
From a press release: Round House Sports, LLC has announced the initial launch of Hooville.net, a website catering to residents of Charlottesville, Virginia and the surrounding community of 150,000+. Hooville.net provides an online forum for discussion of various topics relevent to the residents of central Virginia. Hooville.net is central Virginia’s first and only free online …
HHGTTG meta-trailer.
Now that I’ve seen the latest trailer (52MB Quicktime) for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I am so geeked for this movie. In line. Opening night. With a towel.
New HHGTTG trailer.
There’s a new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer. April 29. For once in my life, I’ll be there, on opening night, quite possibly carrying a towel, because I am one hoopy frood who is a man to reckon with.
My stupid e-mail system.
When it comes to managing e-mail, I feel like the most incompetent person on the planet. I’ve been dealing with e-mail for half of my life. Over time, my primary client has moved from elm to Eudora to Outlook Express to Pine to Apple’s Mail. Every time I switched, I’d hoped that I’d leave behind …
Yet another reason to use FOSS.
I remain a student at Virginia Tech — I’m taking two classes on-line, doing one independent study, and taking three classes at the local community college. (I’ll provide a rundown of those some other time.) The two on-line classes are both run through Blackboard, a commercial software package popular among universities who care to coordinate …
Still with the waiting.
Damned near every city in Virginia planning on establishing free WiFi service. Still no WiFi in Charlottesville.