chris's random thoughts

I noticed that my email wasn’t going through, and found that this blog wasn’t up and running. Not that I update it much anymore.

So, I grabbed the latest & greatest of WordPress — wow, has it changed.

I’ll have to play around with this some more, but I’m favorably impressed!

While checking my email this morning, I found a number of bounces from different organizations. Apparently, spammers are forging the “from” address and using random “ciulla.org” addresses.

I hate spammers as much as the next person — please be aware that it’s really not me sending these damnable things.

In a word — wow.

After messing about with GoDaddy.com’s hosting, this is like heaven. I was up and running in exceptionally short order — even the domain was propagated in no time flat. I did run into a bit of a problem with adding on the ciulla.org domain, but this stems more from my impatience than anything else as I tend to forget that propogation takes time.

While it’s tempting to completely dog GoDaddy’s service offering, they do a great job for their target audience — folks new to web hosting.

Once I get all of the old content off of ciulla.org, I’m definitely cancelling GoDaddy’s hosting service.

Woe to comment spammers everywhere — Dr Dave has released Spam Karma 2 final. I haven’t been spammed since I installed SK2 Beta 4 earlier this month. And, this is despite completely unrestriciting comments. A great piece of work!

The Tech Gadgets Blog has a nice WordPress navigation bar that I’ve appropriated.

Check it out.

Imagine my discomfort when I hit the site this evening and saw,

WordPress database error: [Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_52d8_0.MYI' (Errcode: 17)]

Within seconds, I was on the horn to tech support. After waiting on hold for less than 5 minutes, the tech support guy checked with the “guys in the back room” and confirmed there was an issue on the server where my WordPress DB resides. While he couldn’t give me an ETA, he did try to sell me an additional year or two of service.

After watching Hell’s Kitchen for a bit, I checked again, and normalcy was restored.

Phew.

Then, when I initially attempted to save this post, I got the same error.

As a professional geek, I truly understand that this kind of shit happens. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen again.

At least not in the near future.

As you may or may not know, I moved WordPress up to ciulla.org’s root directory. At least I don’t have to worry about the homepage getting stale. This got me about half way — I think I still need a more flexible content management system to do quick hits against the rest of the static content around here.

Anyway, I put the finishing touches upon the tableless version of my resume. After fighting with unordered lists and list elements for the better part of today, I threw in the towel and changed everything to paragraph tags. Despite this, I think it looks pretty sharp. It just bugs me that CSS doesn’t do what I think it should do. Either that, or the way IE and FireFox renders stuff.