Acerbic.org

Not that I have an audience anymore but just in case anyone is watching I thought I'd update the news. There is a new subsection of the site up now, The Acerbic Work Shop to chronicle my adventures in making things. It's not strictly limited to wood working and will include logs of my attempts to burn the house down with dangerous (and mundane) electronics experiments, attempts at food poisoning myself with experiments in home charcuterie and reports on any new beer I brew. Basically the Work Shop will cover any creative efforts I pursue. The Work Shop entries will continue to show up on the main page though, but regular acerbic.org content won't filter down to the Shop.

The Shop also gets is very own theme that is hard set and not selectable since I want it to have it's own look and feel. Right now it's setup in a very wood based way since I had plenty of pictures handy to facilitate that but it will evolve to incorporate images of the various type of activities I plan on documenting there.

The links section has been updated (finally) and I've reorged the navigation a bit to reflect what's still on the site and how I expect it to be used now. I've also disabled comments throughout the site due to problems with spam though I plan on turning them on again once I can make the time to plug in a comment system that has anti spam features.

More changes may be forthcoming since Apache, PHP and MySQL are past due for an upgrade on this server...

Cheers,

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Slight updates
Entered: 2004-10-18
Edited: 2004-10-18
Type: news

Made a couple changes to the way the site displays the blog entries. First off I changed the posted/modified headers to read started and finished, since I often take several days to acutally finish a story after I start writing it didn't make since for the offical posted date to actually be several days in the past, with an edit date on it. Second I changed the sort order so entries now sort based on the "finished" date. I think I may make that a datetime field sometime soon so that on the rare occiason I update more than once in a day they all line up in the right order.
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New stuff
Entered: 2003-04-13
Edited: 2003-04-13
Type: news

Quick note. I've made two additions to the site recently. First take a look at the Archives where I've added information on the number of comments and the date of the most recent comment to the summary information. Next I added a link to Thrive my friend Adams band. That's all, have a nice day.
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Site slowness solved
Entered: 2003-03-19
Edited: 2003-03-19
Type: news

Well I've figured out why the site has been so bloody slow since moving to the new server. The referer log scripts I wrote were doing reverse dns lookups on all visitors so I could log their hostname in addition to their IP addresses, and for some reason on this server rev dns takes a very long time for certian applications. As a temporary fix I've disable reverse dns lookups in the referer scripts to improve performance while I try and figure the real cause of the problems.
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Moving to a new server
Entered: 2003-02-01
Edited: 2003-02-01
Type: news

This is the first entry into the database of the new server. I've moved acerbic.org (or will have once anyone has read this) off of my cable modem and onto a real server, in a real colo facility. Quite some time ago I helped beta test the services being offered by John Companies and therefore have a FreeBSD colo server for about half the regular price. I've decided to move all of the acerbic.org functions over to this service since it's more reliable and much, much faster than any service I could offer over a cablemodem. This is the first test of the mysql database on the newserver. It seems to be working.

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