from the depths of the chasm

Seems when work did a batch of recent DNS updates, they put my site on the wrong IP addresses, and subsequently it was redirect looping. Uh-oh.

Fixed it for now, although I need to remember to fix it for good tomorrow (few more settings).

In other news, WordPress 2.6 is out and I need to update. I updated my test site I have stored locally and everything seems to have run normally. I’m loving the wiki-like revisions features, very very nice. I’m going to try updating tomorrow morning

~S

So I killed my server, again. Interestingly though I found out that I can do SVN and trac from my Dreamhost account, and I do most coding stuff on MAMP locally anyway (it’s easier than scp’ing files over…)

On to funsies now, philage sent me a heap of demotivation posters …

which I quickly forwarded on to Benn. We all know why.

Going to Melbourne next week, could be interesting.. Maybe not. PJ and Lucy have already put in orders for Krispy Kreme … haha.

Oh and I’m also playing with making WordPress plugins now.. I made a simple one that uses twitter’s API to pull my tweets down, and I’m playing with WP2.5.. The new interface is so pretty!

I just checked my iiNet email address today.

Several months ago I got annoyed at how badly their spam filters operate, so I decided to try out something. I set my ii-Email to forward through to an address hosted here (@chasm, somewhere way down in the depths), which is provided by work.

Since I use Thunderbird for most of my mail, it also does it’s spam thing, and learns really quickly and easily what is and isn’t junk. After about 3 weeks of using it, I was confident in it enough to set it to automatically move out email it thought it was spam to another folder.

There was a reason for this, of course: I could compare inboxes.
Also since my email was being stored at both ends, I could be confident that it wasn’t being lost in the second forward.

Periodically (almost every day-ish), I would log into my iiNet webmail and clear out the legit emails that I had received at the chasm end. I don’t think I’ve lost any yet.

In the several months since I set this up (I think I did it early June), I’ve received 11 emails through that were spam.

Compared to my iiNet email, where I’ve received over 1100 (14.2 MB worth) in the last 6 weeks.

Now I definately think that there are better spam management softwares out there than anything made by the same company that makes Norton Antivirus, but work uses a free one.
Ironic huh? ii pay lots and lots of money for a system that rarely works, work pays nothing, and it works perfectly.

Conversation at work… went something like this:

benni: how do we white lable the dns information?
Sam: well you get some whiteout
Sam: cover your screen where the DNS says dns1.ilisys.com.au
Sam: and then get your pen and write “dns.somedomain.com”
Sam: Sam: white and labelled.
phil: haw haw
Damian: should be wiki-ed
*yells across the office: my one? really?*
Damian: not the sam-parody, the real ones
Sam: can we put mine there too?
Damian: only on star trek holidays
Sam: hmmmm
Sam: wikipedia doesn’t have a list of star trek holidays!!!!
* Damian points out it’s an obscure west wing reference
Sam: and i was seriously looking forward to national vulcan day
Sam: it could be similar to talk like a pirate day
phil: except 10000 times nerdier
Sam: yeah well in binary that’s only 16 times nerdier!!!
phil: that is still a lot nerdier

and if it’s hexxed… then not only is it going straight to hell, but it’s also 2710.