As you probobly know (unless, of course, you in the 90% of my traffic that found this place while looking for porn) I run a little forum. It’s populated by some rather clever people.

The problem with clever people is: sometimes they do clever things.

Example: they found a website that generates fake news stories. They thought it would be funny to insert my name into one. It’s now the 2nd highest google ranked page when you search for my name.

Bejesus…

As I posted last time, I took the week off to paint my house.

Things aren’t exactly going as planned.

My eldest son brought some nasty illness home and infected the rest of us. I’ve been dizzy, coughing my head off, and my nose has become a snot factory.

Good times!

I did manage to get a little bit of painting done yesterday, but I didn’t think it was a good idea to stand on a ladder for too long when my whole world was spinning. Today, I need to attach the down-tube for the rain gutters on the back of the house. The gutters are about 30 feet (9.14 meters) from the ground. Balance is a must when you’re on a ladder that high 🙂

It’s monday, and I don’t have to work again (yay, me!).

I took the week off to see if I couldn’t get some more paint applied to my house. So far, mother nature isn’t exactly cooperating with me.

We’ve got rain today. They’re saying it should be good again starting tomorrow and then rain again on friday. Guess I’ll have to get busy durring those days.

Other news:
I’ve been having issues with the server over-heating and locking up durring the last few weeks. I ordered a spiffy new case yesterday , the Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000SWA Silver All aluminum Modern Dream Tower.

I also ordered a 480watt Thermaltake power supply. That should pretty much do the trick. The parts should be here by the end of the week, so expect some server downtime on friday/saturday.

Once again, I’ve been going through my refer spam, trying to makes my stats readable.

There seems to be a trend where sites are hitting your page in the hopes that you publish your stats (which I don’t), so that their link will appear high in the list of referring pages, and they’ll either get a better google rank or some idiot will click on them.

I will not drive business you way, spammer tard.

So… if you run a php based site (ie, a blog, forum, etc), you can end this nonsense by using the No Refer Spam script.
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The long weekend was good!

Saturday and Sunday were dedicated to hooking up with the family. My mother came by on Saturday for a visit (she was in town for a wedding). On Sunday, my wife and I went to my cousin Debbie’s place for a family get-together BBQ.

Those are always interesting.

Monday was geek day. My friend Dan and his wife Kim came by because they wanted a blog and needed help setting it up. I installed wordpress for them, configured it, and walked them through how to use it. Of course, my damn server puked out in the middle of the config, so I had to drop the database and re-run the install.

After installing a custom template, they were up and running.

I also helped my friend Mike (of mrmoth fame) build a PC this weekend. Unfortunately, he lives in Kansas, so it was all over the phone. He got the hardware set up with very few problems (this was his first ever build) but we had massive headaches getting his OS to work. Thankfully, Mike is a very bright guy and is fairly technically savvy (and can listen and follow directions when we get into things he doesn’t know), so it wasn’t too bad.

And finally: today is the first day of school (so watch your damn speed in the school zones!). My kids played like they didn’t really care, but they were up early this morning to get ready.