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The building I called “home” for the past half decade is now more properly called “sold”.  This past weekend, contracts were signed, funds were exchanged, and Important Things were notarized.  In the  midst of the complete collapse of the housing market, I managed to sell my home at about a $9000 profit — WITHOUT any [...]

It’s Christmas eve (at least it was when I started typing).  If you haven’t wrapped up your Christmas shopping by now, there’s no hope.  Most stores are closed, and of the ones that are still open … well, nobody wants that Imitation Designer Perfume / Cologne from the 24-hour truck stop, no matter how cheap [...]

Just upgraded floor9.com to the new version of WordPress.  A full list of newness is available on the WordPress Blog.  I’ve noticed a handful of minor speed improvements, but most of the changes appear to be cosmetic and internal.  I did run into a snafu when I moved my 2.5 database into the 2.6 installation, requiring [...]

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 [...]

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; [...]

This coming Tuesday (3/11/08), blogHarrisburg.com and floor9.com will be going offline for about four hours beginning at 4am.  Steadcom is moving me to a new rack in the Pacific Rack datacenter for bandwidth and network improvements.  With any luck, come Tuesday morning, you’ll check blogHarrisburg for your daily news fix and find that nothing has [...]

As predicted in my last post, the blogHarrisburg forums are officially live as of 2/29/08!  If you haven’t already signed up for an account, now’s a great time to rush in and secure that all-important low user number.