The Blog of Xangis

I forgot to list a domain yesterday, but it’s now up on eBay:
veygoth.com
Go ahead and bid, you’ll probably get it for 99 cents.

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It’s time to do some domain cleaning again. This time I’ve listed the following domains on eBay:
allpossibleworlds.net
investor-advocate.com
vlacis.com
forexsavant.com
equitysavant.com
fmycompany.com + fuckmycompany.com
poll-vote.net
champion-analytics.com
If any of them sound interesting, you might as well bid because they’ll probably sell at 99 cents (since the domain market is kind of crap on eBay).

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Don’t ever set a redirect from www.example.com to example.com when your Wordpress site is set to use www.example.com as the “siteurl” and “home”. You can get into an endless redirect loop that will require you to edit your SQL database to change those settings. That happened here and the blog was down for [...]

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Drupal 6 stores access log info in the ‘watchdog’ and ‘access’ tables. Although you can clear those with an SQL query, there’s an easier way:
1. Go to admin/settings/error-reporting and set “discard log entries older than” to 1 hour.
2. Run cron.
3. Go back to admin/settings/error-reporting and set “discard log entries older than” back to something [...]

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My current project is figuring out how to build sites with Django. It’s a bit tough to get a handle on because it’s a moving target. I have a book based on a pre-1.0 version. There are plenty of tutorials and videos on pre-1.0, 1.0, and the current development version (1.1). [...]

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I’ve spent the past couple days setting up an Ubuntu Server on VMWare. I’m building a development environment that I can use somewhere like Slicehost or Linode, and I want to get it set up so that it can run the 20 or so domains I have without chewing up all available resources.
There’s a [...]

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1. Download and unzip the current version of Wordpress.
2. Update version by copying new files over the old.  Overwrite everything except:
wp-content
wp-config.php
.htaccess
3. Run www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php.  Use your domain, not example.com.  Duh.
So simple.  I just updated Basternae’s Wordpress from 2.2.1 to 2.7.1 and this Wordpress from 2.5 to 2.7.1.  Zero problems.
Of course, there are automated update tools available, [...]

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Freewavesamples.com turns two years old this month.  I’ve just passed the 200 sample mark, so that puts the site at an average of 100 per year.  I have tons more material to edit, so the site should continue to grow.

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FindMUD.com just turned one year old today.
It’s not exactly the biggest of my sites, but it does get about 3700 pageviews a month and is growing slowly but steadily. It also just recently topped 350 MUD listings.

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Today I posted the 200th work of fiction on fictionclassics.com, thanks mainly to Jack London’s short stories.

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