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Still Findable On The Web

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My cousin Synde said that she googled her family and up came my blog. I think that is pretty cool. But that poses a problem. I don’t use first and last names. I may have used their first names in one past and last name in another one. if that isn’t it I don’t know how they would come up on my blog. I try not to be that conspicuous on the site. She was surprised that I had a blog. I could swear that I told her about it. Her husband knew about it, but I told him about it a long time ago.

I found the reference on the site that she found. I did use the last name once. I have since removed it. I am not a fan of posting last names on the site. Anonymity is nice for a bit. That being said I am making other changes to the site. I am slowly making the Powerpedia domain the only one for this blog. Why you ask? It’s whois information is hidden. Why is that important? I don’t want crazies knowing who I am. It is probably paranoid behavior, but I think it is worth the few bucks the anonymous registration cost.

I also changed the theme of the site back to my old theme. The new one was nice, but I didn’t like the fact that the center column with all my posts was not flexibly in size when you resized your browser. The posts were squished into a small space. My old (current) theme adjusts the posts based on the size of the browser window. Much nicer!

Powerpedia Lives

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While coming up with names (and uses) for my wiki, I came up with a name that I actually like and think is appropriate for this blog. For ages I just called it Scott.ac. Kind of dull, even though it is descriptive of the domain name. Well Jayson and I were riding the subway home the other day and he was telling me the name of his wiki, Wikilicious. Cool but not 100% original. I was trying to come up with something catchy but distinctive to me. Then Powerpedia came to me. .com was taken so I am sticking with .net. Power(z) because that is the online persona I have taken. See my new wiki for the story (link redacted).

So I have a cool & descriptive name, I might as well use it for things like this blog as well as for the wiki.

Stay tuned for some cosmetic changes to the site also, and most importantly read. I can be interesting sometimes!

The Blog URL

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I have given up. I have given up on what url to give this blog. I am taking the cop out approach and just using my main website address and pointing it to the blog. I will use some other URL for my “regular” site.

To be honest, besides my photo album there is not much left on my website. Over the past year I have been spending more on the blog and less on designing and putting content on my website. It will now be harder to find the “regular” site. Sorry to all that were looking for a 4 year old copy of my resume, or other outdated content.

The URL Problem Solved, I Think

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So with Typepad I have been having a problem with the old url of this site. I mentioned the issue the other day. Turns out I may have had a partial solution the whole time. My DNS provider Dyndns.org has a url redirector service for free with my Custom DNS package. DYNDNS.org provides dynamic DNS options. it is really cool. I have been using them for just about a year (i just renewed my service this week). You set your domain to use their DNS servers, and you can control your domain from their web interface. That is not anything new. Register.com does that for free. What is cool is if you host your site on a dynamic ip address their service will automatically update the DNS whenever the IP of your box changes. I also had a function where their system stored my email if my mail server went down. They are very helpful for the self hosted person.

Dyndns has a feature called mywebhops. It is now taking the old URL and just redirecting to the new url of this blog. Now if you try to hit the old home page, you will get redirected to the new site. The only thing this wont do is keep all the embedded links that google has spidered. I will just have to wait until google spiders the new site.

I will know if this whole thing works after the DNS changes propagate. Hopefully in a day or sooner.

Hosting Provider Gone

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So this awesome hosting provider I got is gone. They had a great plan, responsive tech support, etc. The only problem is they didn’t support IMAP4 mail. Their marketing info eluded to them offering it, but in fact support said they didn’t. I canceled my trial account after less than a week. I love that a trial account has your credit card charged right away. At least I got my money back relatively quick.

Right now I am hosting my site on Miguel’s web server. He is in the process of building a new box. Once that is done I can host more of my photo album and move my mail to it. So far it is working out ok, and best of all it is free…

Moveabletype, linux, and vmware

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I am still a huge fan of Moveabletype. That is of course what currently runs my blog. I want to keep using it running on my Red Hat 9.0 Server I built. The only problem is the place I want to put it in my new apartment requires a wireless connection. My new Win2003 server works fine with Wifi, but I am having trouble finding drivers for the card I got to work with Red Hat. For now the server sits next to my desk, but I don’t want to leave it there. I am trying to hid as much electronic crap as possible from visible sight. I want 1 computer out. And that computer will be my desktop, not my server!

I am playing around with running red hat on VMWare on the Windows 2003 server. I am a huge fan of VMWare, but I have not really been using it to it’s full potential. I started using it allot more this week, and I am finding that I love it even more. The only problem is that I need more ram on my work machine to get it to run really well with more than 1 os running at a time.

But back to my idea. So I had a red hat VMware system already built. I configured apache and threw on moveabletype. I am getting some driver error when I try to start moveabletype’s prep file. I need an expert (friend) to look at it. I am going through my config files to verify things are correct.

To cover my bases I am also installing a Windows 2000 Server instance on VMWare also to play around with moveabletype on windows. I don’t plan to use it, but I want to see if it will work and I don’t want to mess up my system I just built so a vmware instance is the best way to test it. All I need to do is make a backup of the file before doing anything and I have a complete OS backed up. Wednesday at work I took an entire vmware OS file and moved it to a different computer and it worked without doing anything special. That totally ROCKS!

I will post results of my ongoing testing. Hopefully this will work and I can keep moveabletype on red hat and consolidate everything to 1 server and just run the vmware software. I will see.

OK, got the hang of this now!

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I guess most people have tons of posts the first time the do this, and then they get fewer and fewer posts per day. Well since this is new to me and I want to get this going, here is yet another post.

I have updated the blogger template to throw the stupid made on a mac icon in there! Now that I know how to modify this template, I can customize it later on. At this stage of the blog I figure I should tell people a bit about myself (even though I donít know who in there right mind would be reading this if they didnít already know me). I am 29 (at the time of this post), I work in the technology field. I guess that means I know a bit about computers. Not to give my whole life history in this post, I will save the other details to later. So I am sitting here on my powerbook writing this blog on a Saturday night. Lame! But I was so tired from work, and going out after work that I decided to just stay in. Tomorrow I am going to a party at my friend rich & Amandaís house. They are throwing an academy award party. Not sure what to expect, but it should be fun. Amanda is a set designer for movies and TV shows. Art designer? Amanda if you are reading this please correct me, and forgive any errorsJ But anyway because of that they are throwing a party for the awards. My thinking is any excuse to get together with friends and have a few drinks is just fine by me.

Today I worked a bit. I preparing to do some major data moves at work. Then I updated quicken, did some shopping and just vegged out in front of the tivo watching stuff I missed this week. I also began to build myself a red hat Linux box at home. I did say I was into computers. The world of Linux and UNIX is something that I have not done much of yet, and I would like to. I finally have a computer to put red hat on and just leave it up. I will give away that I can be considered a computer ìgeekî by the fact that I have a windows 2000 server, red hat server, windows xp desktop, & a mac laptop at home. Sounds excessive, but each has its own function. Really they do! That does not count all the equipment at work. I have come to the conclusion that I will die from the em fields coming off this stuff, so why does one more computer matter!