Category: web

I’ve been really busy lately, and just haven’t found the time to update.  However, just as a teaser, I’ve got two entries in the books.  One about Seattle, the other about the Xbox360 adventure last night.  Anyways, hopefully they’ll be something up later tonight, and if not, over the long weekend.

Well, today I want to introduce a new feature to rebelpeon.com.  I enjoy eating food, and being in Chicago, I’m surrounded by great food everywhere.  Plus I have a tendency to eat out a lot (at least for lunch).  Therefore, I think it only makes sense to put my adventures online.  This new section will probably be broken down quite a bit into categories.  That way, it will be easy for me to find places that I want to visit based on various criteria.  Well, without further ado, lets kick this off…

Oh, and just so you don’t think I’m crazy, there will be another feature coming down the pike very shortly.  If done right, I could see it drawing a lot of traffic.  Now, I just need to find the time to do it.

Wow, another long hiatus, but we seemed to have weathered the storm.  There were many reasons for the downtime including a failed hard drive, crappy Intel NICs that actually had the RJ-45 jack come unsoldered, figuring out the layout at the compound, and me just being busy with other things.

However, we’ve come back better than ever.  We’re currently rocking ExpressionEngine 1.3 , plus the backend, if not super fast, is crazy cool.  I’m currently divided up all backend resources to it’s own virtual server.  This allows me to play with one server, without, necessarily, effecting all the others.  Granted, that doesn’t really happen, since many servers are tied together (web server is tied to active directory server and SQL server), but it greatly helps.  Plus, this way I can have a sandpit for me to test new, emerging technologies without having to take down everything when something goes wrong. 

I should be able to keep uptime back up to where it was before moving, but I already know of at least one downtime in the near future.  The server is physically moving within the apartment once the necessary equipment arrives.  This shouldn’t take very long, but then again, neither should the last few things I have done.

Yes, I’m slowly getting everything back into shape.  There’s a lot of back-end changes going on, mostly for personal testing, so it’ll be a bumpy ride for a bit.  Aaron and I have moved into the apt, and we have had Internet access (on and off) for a week now.  However, since we both have an “Internet presence”, we’ve had to figure out a way to share everything nicely.  This is sort of the spot I’m in right now.  As you can see, I’ve got it slightly working, but I’m still missing a few spots.  Hopefully I’ll be able to plow through those soon, so I can get full access to my online resources.  I may need to get a book on ISA 2004 in order to do everything that I want, but so far, I’ve been able to get everything else working just how I want it. 

Only time will tell, I guess.  It seems like there’s a lot of stuff I’ve wanted to blog about, but haven’t had the website to do it.  So, with luck, there’ll probably be a few updates here soon.

It’s amazing how having your website down for a week and a half, really reduces the amount of referrers you get.  By visiting my referrers page prior to the downtime, I was seeing anywhere from 20-30 referrers per day (not visitors or anything, but people coming from links on other sites).  Now I’m seeing fewer than 10 a day.  Not that I really care, just interesting since most of the referrers are from friends’ websites or from search engines.

Wow, so that was a long downtime, eh?  Basically, what happened was my IP changed, and the software that’s supposed to auto update my DNS nameservers didn’t really do it’s job.  But in all honestly, that may have been my fault, since it was complaining about not being able to log in with the credentials supplied. 

Now that every thing’s back up an running, I’ve got a lot to talk about.  Hopefully I’ll have some time to actually do it.

Edit:
Oh yeah, and that may not sound like it should’ve taken over a week to fix, but I’m essentially living up in Chicago now.  So when something breaks in Champaign, it takes a bit to get down and fix it.