tom@ethergeek.com and pyro@ethergeek.com are now dead.  Too much spam (thanks, FreewarePPC.com), I killed them.

You can contact me here.  I’ll add it to the left column when I get time.

I put a reCAPTCHA on the comments page.  Feel free to test it.

Edit: I also disabled the aKismet plugin for the time being, so if spam shows up somewhere, that’s why.

Edit 2: I’m now using reCAPTCHA on the forum registration page also.  Yatta!

I finally got around to posting Project Stack up in the software section.  Go check it out!

I threw a new application together out of neccessity in a couple of hours this morning…it’s coming to the software section soon.

Project Stack is just a stack based project organizer.  Promote and demote projects as priorities change.  Double click to edit.

Pretty simple, here’s a screenshot.  Click for larger version.  I’ll add this formally to the software section later today or tomorrow.

I just updated Checklist Tree to version 1.2.  Here’s the changes:

• Requirements change. Now requires .NET Compact Framework 3.5
• Hardkeys do things. Left/right expands/collapses node. Up/Down scrolls through. Center button press selects/deselects.
• Last used file is stored in the registry and will open when the app starts up.
• About dialog with support links added.
• Versioning scheme changed to Major.Minor from DATE
• Context menu now has an option to copy the node contents to the clipboard
• HTML Changelog (this file)
• New icon

Go check it out in the software section.  Remember to uninstall any previous versions of the software before you install the new cab.

So I have moved servers, yet again. This time, I’ve broken my vow for this site to be a zero-cost venture and paid for decent hosting.  I went with HostGator, so we’ll see how decent and/or quality it is.

Wish me luck!

Oh yea, and if you’re reading this, you’re seeing the new server!

My blog is now back here. Enjoy!

I also changed some stuff…I put the ads back on the right sidebar, re-arranged the left sidebar…and something else that I forgot just now.

I’m gonna move my blogging over to blogger.com for awhile to test things out and see how I like it.

Check it out here.

Sorry for the recent downtime over the weekend everyone, forgot to take care of some stuff before I left for Vegas on Friday and my hosting provider suspended my account.

Anyway, site is back up and fully operational.

At least it used to be called that…I think it’s google accounts for domains now or something like that…anyway…

I just set it up to handle ethergeek.com’s mail after having so much trouble with my host’s email (too much intermittent “-ERR Maildir invalid (no ‘cur’ directory)” errors) so I finally just said fuck them and set up Google mail for domains.

Anyway, setup was a little tricky, they asked me a few questions, then made me upload a file to my server to verify that I owned the domain, then made me wait 24 hours while they “verified my MX record” (I don’t know why that takes more than a few hours, the TTL on those records is not *that* long), but finally it works. To be honest, the logging into my account should be easier; I should be able to just go to www.gmail.com and enter my username at ethergeek.com and my password, and the system should just know to take me to my mailbox, but instead I have to log in via a different google site with a long annoying name or add a CNAME record (my cPanel host may have a problem doing this, as most hosts that use cPanel have nobody on staff that understands how to manually configure bind) that will point something like mail.ethergeek.com somewhere. I may abuse a redirect to get this to work ^_^.

As for the general experience, it’s just like using gmail, I can set up catch-all addresses for my domain, and they gave me up to 100 accounts with 2 GB of storage apiece. And of course I get the gmail spam filter (thank GOD, since those assholes over at freewareppc posted my email address *in the clear* for months so every spam harvester in the world has it now) to clean up my inbox.

It also comes with other services, like calendar, docs and spreadsheets, talk (which I’m gonna play with later), and google webs…fun toys I haven’t gotten to try out yet, OH…and a /ig for domain accounts.

Best of all, it’s free. Can’t beat that. All in all it kicks the shit out of the basic as fuck mail support you get with cPanel hosting.

First, I think phpbb3’s image verification has been cracked or something, because my forum got totally filled with crap viagra spam. As a result, I set the maxlinks per post to 1; so if you can’t post something, don’t put links in it :).

Second, this server sucks balls. I’m moving soon to a better one. So, the site may be unavailable for a bit while I’m moving it ^^.

That is all.

I moved my site to a new host for the time being after having some problems w/ my old host. If you’re seeing this, you’re on the new host, FYI.

So it seems spam bots are now harvesting PGP keys to extract email addresses from them. Nice. I created a new PGP key with a fake address so that I can give it out. If you have the pyro@ this domain public key just delete it; I’ve deleted the private key for that key, so I can’t decrypt anything to that public key.

I still have the keys for my primary gmail account, so if you’re using those, you can continue to do so

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I don’t need more spam.

So I’ve been looking at my stats for my site over the last few months. It looks like about 2/3 of my visitors are using Firefox or Mozilla, 10 percent are using something else, like Opera, Konqueror, Safari, Lynx (w00t, whoever you are using lynx on OpenVMS), and the rest are using IE6. Only about 4 percent are using IE7, which tells me that they’re all pirates, or have switched to Firefox. In either event, fuck Microsoft, and fuck IE too!

So I got bored today and decided to update the site. I added a forum, mostly because I’m getting a ton of emails from people regarding the software section. I also did some code cleanup, added some error handling (there shouldn’t be any more nasty little PHP errors about not finding files), fixed some includes for reusability, and most importantly, cleaned up the admin sections (haha, you don’t get to see that) that I use for the anime section among other things.

Oh, and I’m now testing on Firefox 2.0. Everyone should upgrade!