Chronicling the depravities of the State.
What you’re reading right now is the culmination of my efforts to blog this weekend. Here in Minnesota this weekend marked the first weekend where the weather didn’t suck. Because of this I enjoyed my freedom to move outside again by spending my time at the beach and on my mountain bike. Effectively this blog has been delayed due to weather.
Have a nice day and I may post some content later.
Without saying a word or indicating I was going to do so I’ve moved this site over to a different server. What’s that mean for you? I do have a valid SSL certificate now. If you go to the HTTPS version of my site your browser should indicate that you have a secure connection for a brief second. WordPress, by default, has no way to force secure connections and always attempts to redirect users to the unsecured version of the site. I’m still working to correct that. It is my intention to provide an always secure site in the future.
Underneath a few things have changed. Previously this site was hosted on OS X 10.6 Server. Apple no longer provides any notable support for 10.6 and their new server software has proven to be unusable. This time around I decided to go with OpenBSD 5.2. OpenBSD has a solid track record when it comes to security, which is something I really like. Hosting the site on OpenBSD also gave me an excuse to become more knowledgeable about BSD-based operating systems. In addition to changing operating systems I also put the server in a virtual machine. Previously I was hosting this site on a natively installed operating system. Now I can move the site from server to server with little trouble and take advantage of useful tools such as snapshots.
There may still be some bugs to work out. If you notice any problems please feel free to e-mail me using the address on the sidebar.
I’m traveling out of town for business so I don’t have the time needed to post more content. This is going to be a fairly brutal trip as I leave Minnesota at 09:00 and return at 06:00. In other words I’ll likely have been awake for almost 24 hours and, barring free time to write posts, I won’t have much for new content today or tomorrow morning. I leave you with an excellent traveling song: Gods of War Arise by Amon Amarth:
Through a combination of illness and starting a new project I didn’t have the energy or time to write any posts last night. Check back later, if I’m feeling better I may get something posted.
I’m back from vacation but I didn’t get home until 22:30. Needless to say after being in a car for roughly 10 hours I didn’t feel up to writing posts as soon as I returned. Due to this new content isn’t going to appear until later.
I won’t be around to post material for a couple of days. I did write a couple of posts ahead of time so there will be updates although not at the usual volume.
It was a busy weekend and I didn’t find time to post any stories. I’ll probably post some content later but in the meantime Pope Benedict resigned. Needless to say that wasn’t a new article I was expecting to read this morning.
Today, January 4th, 2013, I turn 30 years old. My three decades on this Earth have taught me many things and life has been treating me relatively well so far.
Now if you’ll excuse me there are kids on my damned lawn and I must tell them to vacate immediately.
2012 has almost come to a close an 2013 is about to role in. I’m still on vacation so you don’t be seeing any new content today or tomorrow. As I expect most people will be partying today and hungover tomorrow I don’t expect many people to be hitting this site anyways. Enjoy whatever New Year’s Eve celebration you’ll be attending.
I’m on vacation until the beginning of next year. Due to this posting on this blog may become erratic. I’ll try to get content up but I have a decent amount of stuff scheduled already. If you don’t see many updates now you know why.