Site News

In what is becoming a bi-weekly tradition for this site, I’ve gotten my website fixed again. The real question is how long will it hold up. It’s rather frustrating for me as this website has become my main hobby and any time I think I’m beginning to make headway in some kind of readership, the site goes down. What’s worse is that I’m paying for this service. This is the first time that I actually went out and bought hosting for this purpose and I’m getting worse results than I got on free hosts. It’s unacceptable. ...

I give up. I tried to check my football picks to see how I’m doing this week, only to be greeted with the “No data” error. Super. I tried to get my host to do what they did last time to fix it and instead, I got the brilliant response that my website was working and that pinging it worked. This is after I referenced the old incident number where they actually figured out the problem.

I can’t quite explain how excited I am, but Brent Simmons likes my NetNewsWire theme and will be including it with NetNewsWire. I’m quite thrilled and didn’t expect it to be worthy of that honor. At any rate, I’ll be referring to it as Autumn from now on.

I’m using my Bloglines account to host a supplemental blog which is going to be clippings that aren’t worthy of the front page.

The wonderful people over at WordPress have updated the latest version to 1.2.1 to address some security concerns among other things. My upgrade seems to have been successful.

This site has successfully reached the number two slot in Google’s search engine when looking for “Derik“. Of course, this still makes me a girly man in comparison to Derik Farnsworth – IFBB Professional Bodybuilder (who is #1 sadly). Some day my muscle bound friend….

Thanks to Python and Google supplied SOAP API’s, you can now access the Google cache for any site here. I’m only allowed a thousand access per day, so if this gets popular, it may stop working later in the day. Enjoy!

From my webhost:  It is an error that we are working on and fixing. But the current fix out be to restart apache. This error is rare and shouldn’t rear it’s head again. Thanks for patience. There you have it. If you are having trouble with WordPress sending back zero-sized replies/no data/connection reset by peer, then you may need to restart Apache. I’ll write more when I find out more. ...

The real question is for how long. I am noting this because again, it’s proof that WordPress works fine and great. Now I’m waiting for the explanation.

After another series of exchanges with my webhost, I’ve reduced one of the problems I’ve been having to a single PHP command. This should connect to NOAA, disconnect, print a success statement, and finish gracefully. The source can be seen here although you may need to use your browser’s “view source” command. PHP or Apache hangs on this simple code. If anyone has seen this before, please comment.