Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

A few days ago I mentioned I was having some DNS issues. I’m pretty sure they are resolved as the last few days I haven’t seen anything odd.
It seems the primary nameserver did not bump the SOA when it updated. As a result one of the other DNS servers was out of sync. [...]

There’s some DNS funny business going on with this blog the past several days. I’m still trying to figure out exactly where the problem is. DNS has always been one of my least favorite things to deal with.

This server will be moving to a new data center tonight (Tuesday sometime between 1 - 7 AM EST). If your feed reader reports that I’m down… that’s why.
Edit: All done. Successfully moved to it’s new home.

Last Friday (May 2), the data center where this site lives suffered a power fluctuation due to some tornado activity in the area. The actual outage (if there was even one) seemed to have been in the 5 minute ballpark based on various monitors. Apparently this somehow resulted in a routing problem resulting [...]

I haven’t redesigned this blog since 2005. As I mentioned recently, it was long overdue. It’s finally here. Some of the more notable changes:

Much wider content area - The old design was optimized for 800×600 displays. It didn’t allow for anything much wider than 400px, meaning images often had to be [...]

Despite this year actually knowing it was coming, it still sounds strange that I’ve had this site up and running for 5 years now. That’s a half decade. In all honesty when I started I didn’t expect it to last too long. I’ve had the domain for nearly 10 years.
From Then To [...]

I’m semi-quiet lately. A cold last week kicked my butt for pretty much the entire week. That’s always fun.
I’m also working on some changes to this blog. It’s been a long time since that’s happened. Hopefully I’ll have it out of dev and running by the end of the month. [...]

I’ve been pretty quiet lately, but I’ve got a sequel to a very popular blog post coming in the near future… stay tuned .

This and other sites of mine will experience a few outages this weekend as the servers move to a new temporary data center.
Update: Server is snug in it’s new home. Will be moving again to a permanent new data center.

Just made a few tweaks/upgrades that should improve performance around here. Let me know if anything is acting strange or broken. Every so often I tend to do these, most are very minor.