Am on my third day with less D-Ribose than usual. Yesterday there was only a bit left to take at breakfast, whereas the day before I only had maybe 6 grams. I can really tell it in my energy level. Just ain’t there. Gonna get cleaned up a bit and go get more.
Title says it about all. Till tomorrow.
Just about to give up the fight and move it all. I ended up changing it all back over to the old wordpress folder due to error pages showing up about the archives being changed. Now to find the pages that need changing and redo them. Back in a bit.
Got the pages changed out and was able to log in as a user and post a comment so guess that part is working.
Hoping I got the archive structure right in the settings. Will know if the error pages stop showing up.
Now off to add one more plugin and turn it on. More later…
Been trying to get it going all day but haven’t gotten near as much done as I needed to.
The server errors are getting to the point I am gonna move the sites soon. Have looked at several possible hosts and almost settled on 2. There is a fair cost difference between the two and will most likely go with the cheaper but still trying to make up my mind. Tis gonna be a lot of data to move and hate to do it but things are not getting any better so am gonna have to do something.
Spent far too much time today setting up a LAMP server on this machine here at home and then putting wordpress on it to check it all out. After I got the first copy working made a backup of the database for technoprimitive.org, copied the wp folder over and imported the backup. After some playing around with phpMyAdmin got it working on here. Now just got to backup another 7 or 8 other wp sites as well as several other database intensive sites and make sure I can get them all working after the move. Joy, joy, joy… 
Not gonna do it tonight though. Done all I’m gonna do other than hit the publish button on here and then go to bed. Till tomorrow… 
Well it seemed all too easy in the end as we drove off with the Binkolo vehicle literally into the sunset, intoxicated with the sweet success of motoring under the power of palm nut oil. Actually the first noticeable difference was the surprising fried fish exhaust smell. Certainly no difference in power and engine noise and the town could still hear the whooping and hollering from the happy band of bio-dieselers being transported on a lap of honour. We had won the “Stanley Cup”.
Interesting article on making Bio Diesel out of palm nuts using very primitive equipment that they made or scrounged. Good stuff!
Believe it or not, there’s an Internet petition sponsored by InfoWorld to save Windows XP.
The PC Weenies is really good today. I absolutely love the last frame!
Elemental - Cup Of Brown Joy on Vimeo
Elemental. The quintessential English fellow, explorer, scientist, exotic dancer and some might say raving lunatic.
Elemental - Cup Of Brown Joy from Moog on Vimeo.
An interesting and very steampunkish video. Good stuff!
HOWTO kill/block an RFID - Boing Boing
-The easiest way to kill an RFID, and be sure that it is dead, is to throw it in the microwave for 5 seconds. Doing this will literally melt the chip and antenna making it impossible for the chip to ever be read again. Unfortunately this method has a certain fire risk associated with it. Killing an RFID chip this way will also leave visible evidence that it has been tampered with, making it an unsuitable method for killing the RFID tag in passports. Doing this to a credit card will probably also screw with the magnetic strip on the back making it un-swipeable.
Trying out ScribeFire as a writing tool for posting to Wordpress. It does some things fine and others a bit different. Will have to get used to it, for sure. Time will tell. Now to see how it publishes.
The blog is back up and seems to be working fine for the moment anyway. Still not sure what the problem was other than after making a couple of posts from outside the post page (as in I was using an old javascript toolbar posting tool updated to this page location) Wordpress nor phpMyAdmin couldn’t access the database. When I submitted a trouble ticket the only response from the tech was that the database was now accessible. Which helps me figure out the problem not at all.
There seem to be a fair number of folks having this general problem with the 2.5.1 upgrade but no response from the folks on the Wordpress forums other than to delete and reinstall the database and all the Wordpress files including the plugins and templates.
Will see how it goes and hope for the best. I have removed and reinstalled all the files on the site but have not wiped and reloaded the database as it all seems to be working now.
Have also read some things on the webhost forum that indicate similar problems with other sites dealing with maxed out connections causing things to go down. Guess this is part of the Microsoft server infection. I checked the error logs last night and they were showing that there were hundreds of error messages showing up per hour.
More as I find out about it…
Got a fair amount done today. Nothing much finished but with website building that never seems to happen very fast. Bought another domain name for our e-commerce site. Will post the links as soon as I get more of it built. Built the new domain and linked the name to it. Installed Wordpress 2.5 as the front end/home page and general information/content management program. Installed OSCommerce as the e-commerce program as it used to be able to import large amounts of formatted data and I have worked with it several times in the past so am at least somewhat familiar with how badly it’s guts are designed and just how hard it is to make it look the way I want it to.
Have a new site to design and build for a customer also. Got the info that was supposed to allow us to move the domain to our control but something is not working and the guy is out of town till monday at the earliest. I did get the old site files downloaded and on the hard drive here but can’t create the new domain till the transfer of the name is made. So waiting is on this one for now.
Then spent the afternoon and most of the evening trying to get header graphics somewhat the way I want them for our site. Then trying too get the text in the positions I want it. Then throwing it all away and starting over again from scratch. Again. And again. Got them close and I know a LOT more about the way both programs handle certain things now. Which will be handy for the work coming up with this other site so I’m marking it all off to experience and moving on to the next problem.
They got the DNS problem fixed by this morning. Still have no idea what it was but it all works now which is the important thing but I’d still like to know. Second time in a little over 2 years it has happened with the same domain names in the same way with the same hosting service.
Tis late and I ran out of Ribose yesterday so am out of energy tonight. Got to go to Gadsden tomorrow morning and get some more. Gonna call it a night and start again tomorrow. Till then….
Navajo Nation to Lose Internet Signal
I would post something about the above link but the information contained in it will go away in 15 days because it is an Associated Press feed and the copyright statement that they use on every one of their stories that I have copied and pasted below says I can’t.
© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
You’d think that by now they would see it would benefit them to use a less restrictive license so folks would point to and talk about their stories but I guess when the company is run by the bean counters the bottom line is everything.
Anyway to get to the point of this too long gripe, because of this I don’t and won’t post any links to any story by the AP.
For those times I just can’t get the brain to work, this page has a Roman to decimal/decimal to Roman calculator on it, as well as a general description of how the Roman numbering system works.
Or something along those lines.
First off though, Steve, you’re on. I’ll post something, be it simple or complex drivel every day that I’m able to get to a computer, and on any days that I can’t I’ll still write stuff down and post it when I can get to one.
Still not got my head together enough to get a real post together so todays is gonna be a disjointed ramble of dis and dat.
Got a airsoft game going tomorrow. Went out and looked over the area today and most of what needs to be done is. Still got a piece or two of plastic and some other building materials on the field but they can walk around or over, cause I ain’t gonna pick it up before game time. 
Got the bamboo caution taped off so hopefully they will stay out of there.
Put together 3 barricades for Spook to use in the game tomorrow, then blocked off the building materials area.
Gonna have a potluck supper tomorrow afternoon. Need to get some firewood hauled down to the firepit for the after the game sit around the fire and bs session.
Hope to get up to Collinsville during the coming week to see where on the site we can rent a spot to set up and sell stuff.
Still haven’t made any progress on getting set up on Too Many Books to sell books and stuff. Need to try to spend at least a few hours on getting that set up so we can start listing stuff.
Fire is finally warming the room up a bit. Had let it die down while out and about this afternoon and it’s taken a while to get it back to comfortable.
Got to get working on a heater for this place. Been thinking about building a unit to go on top of the existing woodburner to allow the hot portion of the flue gases to rise and the cooler components flow down and out. I’m thinking if I enclose the bells/pipes/whatever you want to call them, in a metal plenum (?) we should be able to duct from that to the heat/air ducts in the trailer and add another to the qhut. Add a blower and some pipes through the top of the bells and fill around everything with sand/clay/cement for heat storage mass. I suspect I will need to draw this out as it’s in me head but not coming out me fingers too well tonight.
On that somewhat disjointed ramble I will close for the night. More tomorrow… 
Just joined blog 365 and now have to spout some form of daily drivel for the next lap around the local star. 
So this is todays post. Will see if I can do a bit better tomorrow… 
Hope it’s a better one than the previous one has been…
Here are some pictures of Patches at the campsite by the creek. Still got bits here and there to do but tis campable with electric available. 12 volt stuff will come soon.
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Needed a table to use with the dutch ovens so got to looking at an old propane grill that had already been gutted and used as a charcoal grill. Checked the fit of the 14″ DO and it just fit. Removed the plastic side shelves/tables and replaced with 2 pieces I cut from a metal shelf. Found 2 broiler tops and with minor modifications screwed them to the inside of the grill body. Put a metal box underneath the catch ashes and plan to test it out this afternoon/evening. Next will be a shelf on the bottom to store the ovens and accessories. I think it will serve well, and it even fits into the camper with room left to squeeze past to get to stuff.
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Del stopped by on his way to Tampa with his teardrop camper, to spend the night, and to let us see his one of a kind creation, the Jelly Bean.
The following pictures were taken Tuesday morning just before he left out heading east for Atlanta before turning south toward Tampa.
The Jelly Bean and Subaru tow vehicle parked by junkyard row at the farm in Weaver Alabama.
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Just a quick post to wish all of our faithful readers a Happy Thanksgiving and upcoming Black Friday.
And for those not in the US of A who don’t know what Black Friday is, it’s the worst shopping day/day to be out in public of the year… *Update, for real reason for the name see Steve’s explanation in the comments.
Got some stuff to post but it’ll be a day or two (or three or four)(or maybe even five or six) before I get back to it (but I will at some point in the future)(really I will)(and soon)(ish).
Dave
Been doing wiring and trying to finish up the kitchen. Still got bits of both to do but getting closer. Put in a bunch of outlets and still got at least 3 more to go. Got to take the couch/bed plywood off to get to where I can do them though. Should have waited till the end to put the frame in. Will know better next time. Bottom course of counter is done. Still got to skin the electrical but still got 12 volt stuff that goes in there too. And more smurf conduit to run to the tongue box which I have still got to build. And so on and so forth. On to the pix…
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