Author: Chris Reynolds

server intestinal implosion

so the server is having issues. i’m getting a lot of slow loading pages and error 500s on the wordpress sites i’m running. when i contacted 1and1 to report the issue, i got this fantabulous response: me: > Hi– > > I have multiple sites running on my shared hosting > package, and I noticed…

January 20, 2009

Puppy!!!

i got off work last night and we drove from PC to Henefer which is another 30-45 minutes north of Park City to pick up our new pug puppy that i’ve been twittering about. he’s a 9 week old fawn pug and so far loves chasing the cats and playing with us and the…

January 19, 2009

and the award for dumbest news of the week goes to…

the state department, after a “reply-all” storm caused their servers to crash. apparently, not only were people pissed at being included on the reply-all lists, and sent angry replies, but the problem was further compunded by more traffic caused by email recalls. i’m left speechless. read the post and scathing replies on /.

January 10, 2009

Hello Ziggy: WordPress “Hello Dolly” Replacement

hello ziggy is a branch of matt mullenweg‘s original hello dolly plugin that comes as part of every wordpress installation. i like the idea of “Hello Dolly”, but i didn’t really want the song, so i changed the lyrics to another song that summed up the “hope and enthusiasm of a generation” — except, not…

January 10, 2009

rpm 09

so, it’s another year, and there’s another rpm challenge. this is that nanowrimo-like competition for musicians to create a cd in the 28 days of february, front to back (so, including cover art), and is always the time of year when i say “maybe this year i’ll get something done,” and never finish. the rules…

January 7, 2009

A Public Service Announcement to the Blogosphere…

The Onion is satire. SATIRE, people! C’mon, people really thought this was real? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard (Answer: yes.) wtf? I mean seriously, with all the headlines about how Steve Jobs wasn’t even at MacWorld Expo this year, let alone the fact that the MacWorld keynote is TODAY, not yesterday like the…

January 6, 2009

There’s Too Many ThinkTanks

so here’s the story: back in the mid- to late-nineties, i made a lot of music. i was angsty and in high school, and spent a lot of time focussing that angsty into some screamy tunes set to bad synthesizers that i called music. i even had a fake record label. or three. first,…

December 20, 2008