Yesterday, I saw this site was timing out with HTTP 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and I couldn’t access my WordPress blog. Whut? I logged into my shared hosting shell, looked at the server logs, and saw I was being hammered by some scraper bot. So of course Apache’s mod_security was throttling my site and returning …
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Twenty years ago, I remember feeling hope. Was working a shit job doing overnight front desk at a hotel, night audit. Living in my mother’s rented house. Scratching my ankles every day because the carpets were still tainted from the flea bombs we set while moving in nine months prior. Glaring at the daylight streaming …
1999-07-16 The Farm: projects (from the archives)
Part of a series of posts from my old website archives. Enjoy! “idle hands are the tools of the devil.” — cool. 7.16.99 My projects are coming along fairly well. I’m spending a lot of free-time on my computer, and it’s starting to show. Aside from working a bit on this site and doing stuff for my future website, I …
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