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Beginning around 7:30 this morning, both floor9.com and blogHarrisburg.com were offline due to a major power issue at the Pacific Rack datacenter in Los Angeles, where my VPS is located. This knocked out several hundred servers, including multiple web hosting companies, until around 2pm. Everything is — obviously — fully restored, and you […]

After finding out that my MySQL backups from bH were corrupt (as well as all of my backups from all of my domains for the last few months), and after taking steps to ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again, I was finally able to fix blogHarrisburg today.  Due to the loss of […]

After I get home from the gym tonight, I’m going to reinstall WP and reload a pre-2.5 database backup of blogHarrisburg.  The author of FWP doesn’t appear to have a fix or an update anytime soon.  Bear with me for a few more hours; everything will be bright and sunny tomorrow.
EDIT - Got tied up […]

A handful of posts on blogHarrisburg have decided to go wiggly lately. I thought I had the problem nailed on Sunday, but apparently it wasn’t so. I’ve made a few final adjustments to the site today and hopefully everything will be back to normal. I’ve also temporarily returned to the previous theme; […]

Yeah, I know it’s been around a while. But thanks to Jersey Mike, I now have Twitter accounts for myself (twitter.com/floor9) and blogHarrisburg (twitter.com/harrisburg). Great - another toy to suck time away from my already stretched-thin day!
I’ve been pondering how to make Twitter useful within the context of blogHarrisburg. The simple and […]

Bear with me.  This is going to be a long post.  It all began after someone sent me a link to an article further explaining why the game is getting really bad for those trying to etch out a living through print media.  This time, it’s the New Yorker announcing that the clock is running:

While the Patriot-News is busy yelling “It’s On!” at people complaining of plagiarism, Jersey Mike is busy thoroughly scooping them by liveblogging from this morning’s political event. Hop over to his site to watch the fun.