| Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Sold all stocks in my retirement portfolio. I’m holding cash until all this blows over. #
| Monday, 22 September 2008, 6:31 am Tags: Leoville, server, wordpress |
Yes Leoville is looking pretty awful. I’m reconstructing it from scratch. Fortunately, as you can see, all the posts survived the apocalyptic demise of my server’s RAID 5 Array. Unfortunately, none of the WordPress customizations did. So I’m downloading the plug-ins, restoring the template, hacking the CSS, and desperately trying to remember the changes I made.
All the comments are safe with Disqus and will return when I turn on the Disqus plug-in. (Done. Thanks, Disqus!)
Unfortunately, the image directory was not saved. That means all the attached images will be blank. I will be able to recreate some of them from my local archives, but most are lost forever. -sigh-
All of this is because I was too cheap to buy the many gigabytes of storage required to backup that data. It was a false economy. I’ve purchased 200GB of storage from my host, Softlayer, at the extortionate rate of $180/month. (That’s twice what a hard drive of that size would cost outright – 2400% more per year – and I thought the cell phone companies were bad.) And I’ll be setting up rsync and S3 for a secondary backup, as well.
Meanwhile it’s back to the depressing and very time consuming work of fixing this place up again. Now I know, in a very small way, how it must feel to survive a hurricane.
| Sunday, 21 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- @Darth_Emma http://drobo.com/macbreak – $25 off either version of Drobo. (We don’t get paid by the purchase, but the traffic reassures em!) #
- OK the TWiT/Leoville server is back up. I’m restoring from backups where possible. Details at http://poprl.com/0mE #
| Saturday, 20 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- @RickMacMerc Don’t make me cry, Rick. #
- Burn After Reading and steak tacos at The Alamo on 6th St in Austin. If it had been after 5p I might have had a gin and tonic, too. #
- @RickMacMerc Yeah the TWiT and Leoville sites are down. I’ve put in a ticket with Softlayer. This machine has been a lil flaky lately. #
- Erggh. The RAID 5 array died on the server for TWiT.tv and Leoville.com – sites will be down for a while. #
- @alansebastian I enjoyed Burn After Reading – but I’m a Coen Brothers fan. Frances, Brad, and George were a little broad I thought. #
- @alienspaces If you’re gonna buy a Drobo use our promo code not Cali’s! But seriously the RAID 5 card died – data is not recoverable. -sigh- #
- @PhantomJoe Yeah – the hardware in that server has been troubled for a while. It was a 3Ware 9550-SX RAID card that died. #
- @rogermcguinn Yeah it’s a little disappointing. We have three Raptors in the array. No data is recoverable. My backups are a little old too. #
- Rebuilding twit.tv, army.twit.tv, live.twit.tv, twit.tv/forums, and leoville.com, munchcast.com is not going to be fun. #
- @mollywood Is that code? #
| Thursday, 18 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Off to Austin for NAB. Too early. in Oakland, CA http://tinyurl.com/3rbo88 #
- It’s kind of quiet here. Smells like a recession. in Austin, TX http://tinyurl.com/3g3ahx #
| Sunday, 14 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- @submooringtone I think that’s definitely going on for some. When you get hundreds of people in a chat there are all sorts of undercurrents. #
| Friday, 12 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- TWiT Army has its own Twhirl now: http://is.gd/2wPH – ok it works with any Laconica site, too. Thanks Loic and Marco! #
- @bradarsenault UGM is off being painted at ALSA. Today, all day, on TWiT Live, coverage of Bearhug Camp on the future of open microblogging. #
- jack payne, biz stone, and jack dorsey just walked into the bearhug. http://twitlive.tv #
| Friday, 12 September 2008, 5:46 am Tags: bearhug camp, microblogging, TWiT Live, xmpp |
Today is an important landmark in the world of open micro-blogging/messaging (think Twitter without limits). The first Bearhug Camp will bring all the players together, Twitter, Laconica, Microsoft, Google, and more, to talk about the future of XMPP, track, and open micro-blogging. Watch live all day on TWiT Live. And join the conversation on our own microblog (thanks to Laconica), the TWiT Army.
| Friday, 12 September 2008, 5:18 am Tags: laconica, twhirl, twit army |
I just got the email I’ve been waiting for from Marco Kaiser on the Twhirl team. There’s a new beta of Twhirl that supports the TWiT Army microblog.
The new Twhirl beta also supports inline track messages via IdentiSpy with a cool little flame icon.
Incidentally, we’ll be talking more about XMPP, track, and the future of open micro-messaging all day today at Bearhug Camp. You can watch Bearhug Camp live on TWiT Live.
Marco’s message follows:
I’m happy to tell you that we can make a version of twhirl available now that supports generic laconi.ca installations. We do not push this out through our automatic update process, but give you the chance to give it to your TWiT Army users first. Loic will also put up a post on his blog today to spread this version a bit. The intention is to get some feedback first from users that point it to various installations. If everything works well, we’ll release the official update very soon.
Here is some info about the new version:
This new version 0.8.5 supports generic laconi.ca installations. To add an account for a service, select “laconi.ca” from the drop down list of services, and enter the name as follows: @. Should the laconi.ca site be installed at “http://laconica.example.com”, and your username is “leo”, then enter “leo@laconica.example.com”. Press Return or click the “+” button to add it to the list of accounts.
Twhirl will automatically find the laconi.ca site at the given domain and use its API. If you use XMPP to get updates from that site, simply add your account information to the Network tab of the account’s configuration, and twhirl will receive and display them. If you use the identiSpy service from Dustin Sallings to get tracking for identica or TWiT Army, you’ll now also see these messages in your timeline (tracked items have a small flame icon in the top right hand corner). If you don’t want to see tracked messages in twhirl, just disable the “show tracked messages” option on the Network tab.
There is one small thing special to your site: twhirl has a small icon it displays in the title bar for army.twit.tv accounts. I hope that laconi.ca will have a feature soon that allows to do this for every site; currently this is manually added to twhirl.
UPDATE: For further instructions on getting Track to work with Twhirl and the TWiT Army, check out Mykel’s very informative TWiT Army Twhirl instructions. Thanks, Mykel!
| Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Heading home. in Los Angeles, CA http://tinyurl.com/5lu8s5 #
- @steverubel It’s definitely related to over-the-air iPhone app installs or updates. Use iTunes only. Maybe 2.1 will fix this – maybe not. #
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