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I’ve been eagerly anticipating the opening of this new Food Truck, it’s about a block away from my house in the Wilson’s parking lot. Called "Bogan’s Bites and Beats," it’s supposed to be Aussie themed, but I don’t know how many folks here would appreciate Vegemite, I don’t particularly care for it myself.

It’s annoying to have to remember all my dumb WP sites scattered all over and then logging in and keeping all those updated, so I set up a script I can run as root to update everything. For each site, I have a stanza like this in a little bash script. #!/bin/bash echo "Updating blog.schoolfield.org"… Read more Updating WordPress with wp-cli

Lately I’ve been noticing that the kids nowadays have been saying “out of pocket” to mean someone’s doing something abruptly inappropriate or offensive. And I’m here thinking, why is this usage so different from the idiom as I know it? I’m always on the side that any native English speaker is correct for idioms and… Read more Out of Pocket

Many years ago, there was something of a “moral panic” that kids were only reading Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine. You know what? Those are good, well written books and entertaining stories that got kids to read. Kids ate them up, which is wonderful. Sure they’re easy and entertaining, but it just makes reading more… Read more Just read books

I store a bunch of Linux ISOs on my server to keep handy. [root@miss ~]# du -sh /home/radioshack/domains/radioshack.tech/public_html/iso/19G /home/radioshack/domains/radioshack.tech/public_html/iso/ But I don’t want all that included in the backup file. I added this and restarted directadmin: [root@miss ~]# grep exclude /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.confallow_backup_exclude_path=1 Set up the backup exclude file: [root@miss ~]# cat /home/radioshack/.backup_exclude_pathsdomains/radioshack.tech/public_html/iso And that worked to… Read more Direct Admin Backup Exclusion

I’ve been playing with my new LuxCal calendar and tried to import an ics file that had emoji in it. Oops, the db is utf8, so I needed to convert it to utf8mb4 to support emoji. I ran this in the SQL box in phpMyAdmin on the db: SET collation_connection = ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci’;ALTER DATABASE radioshack_luxcal CHARACTER… Read more LuxCal Emoji Support

Started a fake blog about gaming chairs. Just kidding, I recently bought a new (very expensive) COMFY CHAIR. So I finally decided to treat myself to a quality office chair. Being WFH, I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, working 12 hour shifts “fixing servers” for a web hosting company. I’m… Read more Gaming Chair for the Smol Neckbeard

I have something to say about inflated college costs, student loans, and state taxes and you’re gonna hear about it. I have an English degree from the University of Alabama, Class of ’99.

cPanel has a mechanism to completely suspend outgoing email for an account, which is useful when there’s a bunch of spamming going on. Particularly contact form spam when the admin of a site can’t or won’t disable or secure the form. — root@host [~]# whmapi1 suspend_outgoing_email user=spamalot metadata: command: suspend_outgoing_email reason: OK result: 1 version:… Read more Block outgoing email for a Direct Admin user