Blogging someplace else

My Blogger site will probably not get much action until school is underway. I really only have it up to be able to test items that we might be using at the school. I've been active in my personal WordPress blog in the meantime. Cheers.

Hendrix albums needed

Still need to replace one older Jimi Hendrix album and get two others I've not owned yet.

• Are You Experienced?


• First Rays of the New Rising Sun


• South Saturn Delta

Moving domain to new ISP

I'm moving my domain pepino.com over to Laughing Squid for web hosting. I'll be able to run WordPress over there for my personal blog. Blogger is nice but I wish it just had those category tags. Anyway, the website appears to be up and running over there fine. Email is still in limbo. I cannot fetch it yet with my email program but I can see it if I use the web mail client that Laughing Squid has. Well, at least nothing is getting lost.

Shutting out blogs in schools

Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom: "So here is the update from the heartland: blogs, wikis, Flickr...almost anything where kids can post content online is being blocked by schools. An elementary school teacher told me that the schools just don't want the potential problems of students doing this"

This is not good. There was a great reply in favor of student freedom in the article though:

"Stop treating problems relating to computers as different than other school related issues. Choices are choices. Educate and inform the child as to the right choices and hold them responsible if they make the wrong choices. Supervision and education are the keys not blocking. These are schools."

I hope there is not much resistance in our plan to teach the kids (and teachers) these things next school year.

Strawberry Fields is not forever

Strawberry Fields shut down: 31/05/2005 21:52 London - The Strawberry Field children's home, immortalised in song by John Lennon, finally shut down its operations on Tuesday after 69 years."

That is kind of sad. My father grew up in a children's home for while.

FBI agent W. Mark Felt is a squealer

FBI Agents Alternately Criticize, Back Felt: "Felt, 91, broke a three-decade silence Tuesday, revealing himself as the famous source [of Watergate] in an article in Vanity Fair magazine. His family said they wanted him to come forward so that he could be recognized as a true patriot..."

I agree with others who "...said Wednesday that they did consider Felt a turncoat." I would have called him a squealer.

How do jerks like this get to such important positions in our society?

Switch burned out this morning

Could not get to the servers when I woke up so rushed into work. It took me a while to find the problem as everything seemed to be working fine, even the T1 which was my first guess as going down. It turned out being my main switch which connects the servers and such was dead. Damnit. It put in an old 10Base switch at 8:39 to try and hold the network till the stores opened up. Many services ran, albiet slowly, but Mail would not work. Damnit. Luckily the Barracuda was caching everything. As soon as I got a new Netgear switch and replaced it, things worked again as usualy. So, only traffic between 4:37 am and 8:39 am was lost.