Taupe Hat Systems

Had a site outage while moving the site to a new host - pretty cool outfit called Linode that basically gives you a disk image of any one of several distros using UML (User Mode Linux), thus giving me the cost advantage of shared hosting while having actual, real root on my server. (Tried a different host using BSD, but the way it was chrooted broke ports and several other things). So you know, there is a world of difference between chroot and UML, a difference worth investigation.

More later.

These have been few and far between, but to be certain a lot has been going on in the background. For one thing, I needed to work on my understanding of b2evolution, which as it turns out is very well-documented and easy-to-maintain code. I've also been checking and killing referral spam on a pretty much daily basis. I'm tempted to take the referral block out of the sidebar entirely, but I kind of enjoy banning the creeps, and it also forces me to maintain my website.

So here's an update, and there are a couple of obvious changes that should be apparent... that's all I've got to say for the time being, but will be posting more in the near future. Thanks for reading.