A New ${HOME}

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Up until last week, this website was run on a generic shared hosting account. For the most part, this worked well. At times, it could be slow. I went through all kinds of trouble to tune WordPress as much as I could to make it respond faster. Unfortunately, a lot of the slowness was in the shared MySQL server that they provided. I had them move me between servers a few times, but it never fully resolved the issues.

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Vending Failure

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This evening, I was staying late at work. I decided to go grab a bag of chips from the vending machine. I punched in the code to see what the price was for my chips, since I couldn’t see it behind the glass. Instead of showing the price on the LCD, I heard a plunk noise. My chips were free?!

Thinking that the last guy just probably put in a $1 and walked away, I typed a random code. Plunk! I got some Ruffles. Now I figured maybe the last guy put in a $5, so I tried a few more codes. Keep in mind that I have extremely poor eyesight, and I couldn’t see anywhere where it showed how much money was on tab already. Finally, I came to the conclusion that it was totally broken.

The Webs I’ve Spun

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For a long time now, I’ve been looking for a new content management system for my website. Over the years, I’ve tried all sorts of solutions and never found one that I found to be a satisfying solution. Finally, I think I may have found something I don’t absolutely hate.

In the beginning, there was Geocities. Back in those days, GeoCities websites were broken down into “cities” and addresses. For example, a URL may have looked something like http://www.geocities.com/broadway/1138. My first website was somewhere under /broadway/. I believe I used a GeoCities tool to generate the HTML. Later, for some reason I don’t remember, I relocated to /SiliconValley/. By that point, I had started tinkering with HTML and created my website with some shareware website authoring tool for Windows 3.1, though mainly writing my own HTML. This was back before CSS, kids.

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