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Spam is getting smart.
This time it could almost make me click it, it now knows what to use to get my attention.
I clearly didn’t care about the typical spam:
Happy new year!
Yeah, I said I probably wouldn’t post a separate happy new year post, but I did dun it.
This way I can say I made 8 posts in the last month.
Possibly a new record.
So, happy new year. Wish you happiness and all that stuff.
May the new decade bring the zombie apocalypse.
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Computer Woes: Part 2038.7
This happened some months ago, but since I was in a writing hiatus in the last half of 2019 due to eye surgery I’m only writing/posting it now.
“So, what broke this time?”, I hear all of you asking.
My precious…
My faithful…
And stupidly old…
Monitor.
640 words
Merry Christmas 2019!
Hey everyone (all the 0 readers, including myself), I want to wish you all a merry Christmas!
And a happy new year since I doubt I’m going to post again until then.
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I’m gonna do it!
I’ve promised a few times along the years that I would start posting reviews of random junk.
I will and I have proof.
A couple of days ago I opened Inkscape and did something I hadn’t done in years: a bit of vectorial work.
And with a new host comes…
…a new shitty theme.
So, about 5 years after introducing my theme made with a WP theme generator, I introduce to you my new theme made with a WP theme generator (the same exact one I used last time in fact).
(more…)Boy, do I love changing webhost!
So, I changed webhost again.
I either don’t change anything for years or I’m constantly jumping around webhosts.
This time was because the webhost I was using was supercheap, well the package that I was using was supercheap.
But it only had 1GB of space which considering my other stuff on the host, the backups and all that 1GB was too little.
I’m still around
I haven’t posted anything in months.
And no one cares.
I guess I’m too self-centred to not have a site/blog, yet not self-centred enough to post every little bit of crap that passes my mind.
So, I guess I’ll give a bit of an update and a small insight into my personal life.
Recently I learned…
…that 7-zip has some trouble with .tar.gz files.
As I posted earlier I moved web hosting and since it was a sudden unexpected move the most recent backup was a few days old, but it’s not like I post much so it was probably fine.
As every time I need a backup, I was thankful I do automatic backups hosted offsite (two times a week, to Dropbox in this case)
So I grabbed the most recent backup, which by now was one week old and extracted it.
Absent mindedly uploaded the files by ftp while I created the mysql databases and users, when the upload finished I went to the site URL and…nothing worked.
After a short downtime, the site is back
No one missed it, except for me.
And that’s just fine.
When you get your hosting, make sure it’s not managed by people who already have a questionable history in the world of webhosting.
Suddenly both the shared hosting and my VPS were offline.
Even the VPS control panel was down, seemed like all the company’s servers went dark suddenly.
And after two days they weren’t back on, after some googling I found why.