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In a few more days, we’ll throw the switch on the shiny new blogHarrisburg forums located at forums.blogHarrisburg.com.  We’re doing this to help address the growing mountain of criticism that seems to be constantly levelled at another unnamed forum (I’ll refer to them as the other “Popular Local” forum to help protect their anonymity).  Before [...]

SRSLY.  If you’re reading this, you’ve found the new server.  As of this post, floor9.com and friends are running on a VPS in the Los Angeles datacenter of Steadcom.  Right off the bat, I’m seeing MAJOR speed improvements over BlueHost even on simple things like WordPress administration (and my editor no longer takes 8 seconds [...]

Seems that someone didn’t appreciate the footage captured by Roxbury News.  More than one local political-type figure has had more than one embarrassing and/or inappropriate outburst, antic, or instance of conduct preserved forever thanks to Roxbury.  And now it seems that maybe, just maybe, one of those political-types may have bitten off more than they [...]

2008 is here, and so is my shiny new server. As you’re reading this, there’s a brand-new quad-core Xeon E5310-based server sitting in the Pacific Rack datacenter in LA just waiting to take over. The team at Steadcom, my new host, has been amazing in helping me get everything up and running.  If [...]

Goodbye, 2007.You’ve been an interesting year, 2007. A very interesting year. There was the discovery of the abandoned Turnpike. There was my first handgun (and my second, and now my third). My college degree (albeit ten years too late). Too many court dates (as witness for prosecution, for the record) to [...]

First, happy Thanksgiving!  I’m up in Parts North right now recovering from an oversized holiday feast with the closest thing we have to a Starbucks.  The drive up here is about 25% interstate and about 75% good-ol’ Pennsylvania Back Roads ™; with the leaves being down all over the place, I’m really looking forward to [...]

Way back in 1994, deep in the basement studios of WNTE at Mansfield University, I was introduced to a spiffy little program known as Cello.  Long before Firefox, Internet Explorer, and even Netscape, Cello allowed that 486SX/25 PC running Windows 3.1 to surf something known as “the world wide web”.  Now this was not my [...]