General

What happened here & how do I fix it?

I very rarely use Radio Userland now that I’ve switched to MT, but last night I ran it (only the second time on my new PowerBook; I made sure I changed all of the paths). I changed the template & published the entire site and all of the articles are scrambled, yet in the local home page everything looks OK.

I’ve moved MacMegasite to Monarc Island after a day of problems with BounceWeb.

I got a free trial with them & I’ll see how that works out. After I move next month, I’ll probably move my other domains, most likely to different hosts. After what happened with BounceWeb, I’d rather not be dependent on one hosting company for everything again.

Yesterday I put in a request to switch my phone service to my new address on Apr. 28. When I got up today I found that my phone service was already shut off. I called & they saw the request was for the correct date, but someone there must have screwed up. It should be restored soon.

Everything at BounceWeb was down for a few hours this morning. It seems to be OK now. As long as it doesn’t get too much worse, I’m going to try to wait until after I move next month before I switch to a different web hosting service.

House Resolution 153 recognizes the need for the American public to pray and fast in order to secure the blessings of “Providence” (read: Jesus) for our Armed Forces. Seriously. “Resolved that the President should issue a proclamation designating a day for prayer & fasting for all people of the United States”. I take back the thing I said earlier about the Freedom Fries being the stupidest Congressional legislation I’d ever seen. [metafilter.com]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan died today. [Scripting News]

I was at his office many years ago, although I didn’t meet him. A long time ago, when I was working at the Small Computer Company I had to go there to install some software on the ancient (even in those days) TRS-80 Model IIs they were using.

A script kiddie defaced MacMegasite. I deleted the damaged article (which included a script that redirected it to a different site – very cute) and applied the security fixes for PHP Nuke 6.0 which prevent SQL code from being injected.

I also applied those fixes to WorldBeatPlanet.

Halliburton Handed No-Bid Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract You still believe this war is about nothing more then WMD’s? I wonder how many other of Bush and Cheney’s friends are benefiting from this war? The US government didn’t even bother to give other companies a chance to bid for this contract. While on the topic of WMD’s you might want to check out this, about the lack of skepticism when it comes to the media making claims for weapons in Iraq. Remember Fox and their claim of a “HUGE” chemical weapons stash? How are we to get accurate news on this war if the journalist’s we rely on are nothing more then puppets for this administration? [metafilter.com]

In increments, we have become a different nation. Will I have to flee my country as my ancestors did theirs? [Salon]

“The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Friday said that Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day ‘in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam,’ said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager.” [Lockergnome Bytes]

This isn’t going to have any effect on spam, since most spam sent with a hotmail return address isn’t actually sent from their server. A web-based mail service such as hotmail can’t send the high volume of email at the speed that spammers typically send it, so they usually use special software that blasts it through an open SMTP relay using bogus return addresses.