The move broke stuff. First the whole site, then just the comments.
The new server has, I now learn, PHP compiled separately from Apache. Time to change the .htaccess file.
Plus, I'm now on Apache2, I learn. That has more .htaccess implications involving security settings I think I won't brag about. But I had forgotten why I did them that way, and I had to change them in a hurry.
Please let me know if anything seems more broken than usual.
For the past few days the blog has suffered from unusual slowness — yes, even more than usual — caused by heavy load on the server. The nice people at Dreamhost are moving me to what they say is a snazzy new server where the blog will zip along at a fabulous less sluggish pace.
Meanwhile, there may be brief weirdness. Please let me know if anything odder than usual persists.
I wonder sometimes if I should spring for faster service. But that would be expensive. And I like not taking ads. (This blog is privately hosted. My employer neither pays for it nor is in any way responsible for it.)
Uber-geek childcare video: Linux Baby Rocker, found via boingboing's Scripting a PC CD-tray to rock the baby to sleep.
Cute & cool.
S. Carolina Lt. Gov André Bauer has suddenly subscribed me to his PR list (without asking), and sends me this urgent message:
Lt. Governor to Hold Press Conference Wednesday, August 26.
Lt. Governor André Bauer will issue a major public statement concerning the ongoing investigation of Governor Mark Sanford today at 12:00 pm on the first floor of the Statehouse.
Could it be that Lt. Gov. Bauer (whose web page self-congratulates as “South Carolina's Hardest Working Elected Official”) has some national aspirations?
Boing Boing points to a study showing that the Placebo effect is getting stronger. I take this to mean that people today are more credulous.
Which may explain Fox 'News'? How else to make sense of articles such as today's NYT story on a good man driven to activism by total misinformation,
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