Fnord.

Spoons!

Gotta transfer DNS from UltraDNS (now costing $50/month!) to EveryDNS.net. Not gonna be simple.

Wish me luck…

Update: Here’s why I’m moving. My UltraDNS contract is for 10k queries/month, and we’re getting 10 times that. It’s not showing up on the page views, so I’d guess it to be spammers.

Update 1/9/08 2:30PM: Update in progress, we have to wait for Network Solutions to update the root, and also for everydns to update their databases. Expect DNS errors for a day or two, sorry.

PS Yes, I donated to EveryDNS. Karma is good.

Update 1/10/08: Done! It works! A-maze-ing.

There are many ways to be happy. Here’s a new one for me: My wife and kind relatives banded together to get me the TimeZone watch school level 1 and associated parts & tools. (ETA 2401, plus case, and of course the watch tools.)

I felt like a kid again, newly able to Take Stuff Apart and Rebuild It. Wonderful! So far I’ve done the most-basic bit, removing and replacing 5 1.2mm screws from the two bridges. I’ve also peered into my broken Molnija and a defunct Certina. This, my friends, promises to be massively fun.

I might actually have to lay off the coffee for this. How’s that for an evil choice?

Disk upgraded, one glitch left to address but please notify me if you see anything odd.

1. Never try to move to a new hard drive while distracted by an infant.
2. Never assume that cp -a is as accurate a copy as, say, tar -p
3. Or rsync
4. Never power off the machine in frustration over the new drive, assuming that the data on the old will be unaffected. There may be connected RAID volumes that will Not Like This a Bit.
5. Never try to migrate ~240GB of data in 30 minutes. It won’t end well.

More downtime soon, after I do a correct transfer and try again.

The big list of categories at the bottom of each page has bugged me for a while, so tonight I commented it out.

Before:

After:

Not perfect, but much cleaner. Code tweak is simple, in footer.php.

Via Boing Boing, the welcome news that Best of Bootie 2007 is out!

On that front, there’s also a single song mashing up the entire top 40 for 2007:

(That’s also from Boing Boing.)

Downloading now - both are free, what are you waiting for? Enjoy!

From HPWREN, a new set of cameras capturing 20-megapixel (!!) images of the city and view:

Wow. For those of you still in the depths of winter, feel free to click through and see the awful conditions here.

Imagine a sorta-remake of Prince of Persia (the first one), done in Flash, with occasional pop quizzes on C and C++ programming. The game seems fun, played it for a few minutes. It was a promo for a contest that’s ended, but the game’s still there.

You know who you are.  Have at it.