Tin Foil Soldier

I took a vacation day on Friday, and it was good I did because Thursday night after work I tried to authenticate my xbox to my storage array and it just kept failing.
I go to check on the domain controller and get no response via the network.  Shit.  I go downstairs to the server rack [...]

Rock Climbing
it was a blast

granted, I stupidly got sunburn but it was worth it
check out all the pics

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Home
Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.
www dot james mckay dot net » Comment Timeout
Comment Timeout is a WordPress plugin that allows you to close [...]

Enable Firefox spell checking in Wordpress 2.1 » Nothing to see here
Wordpress 2.1, but I noticed several complaints over on the Wordpress support forums about the fact that the Firefox inline spell checking seems to not be working with the new editor

do you wordpress? do you firefox? if you answered yes to both questions you [...]

Ireland 2003

I went to Ireland my senior year in high school. I finally got around to putting some of the pictures online, unfortunately the rest are film and I just don’t have the time to digitize them right now.

Tin Foil Soldier
I still haven’t figure out how to make the links and stuff on the side in a random order, I liked them that way much better than the alphabetical!
I mean, it doesn’t really matter but it bothers me

Result for http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/ - W3C Markup Validator
This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Unfortunately as soon as I post this my blog will no longer be valid XHTML because wordpress is inserting an extra </p> right before the </blockquote> that first of all, is not allowed inside a blockquote, and second of all, has never been [...]

Development Blog › WordPress 2.1 Ella
announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald

oops
apparently i haven’t been updating wordpress at all (damn wget and wordpress) because all releases are always called “latest.tar.gz” and i was just downloaded them and wget would auto add a .1 or .2 or .3 [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
balthasar / # uptime
03:53:35 up 111 days, 13:53, 3 users, load average: 1.05, 1.29, 1.41
I need to do a kernel upgrade because stupid smbfs mount wont work, but I have such awesome uptime…
there will be some downtime tomorrow, hopefully it is about 4 minutes, it might be more if I messed [...]

new version of wordpress, i upgraded, but neglected to read the instructions that say you only need to replace a few files and I did a full upgrade / replace.  Oh well.
Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.7
We know it sucks to have a release only 10 days after our last one, but we think it’s important [...]

Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.6
We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.
oops
I accidently deleted the themes during the upgrade, but I restored from [...]

Balthasar was brought down from what I think was someone hammering me with comment spam
I added this to my .htaccess
deny from 82.137.247.131 # spam hammering
deny from 82.137.247.132 # spam hammering
I think this should fix it, I hope
I don’t see how several thousand comment spams in a few hours could be helpful to anyone, those bastards!
Tin [...]

CMOG

zoey and I went to the corning Museum of Glass while i was in elmira visiting her for her birthday.
she took lots of pictures
I farted in the room in the picture above and it smelled so bad
there are lots of cool pics of random art, too cool to see from just a small photo, so [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
The Tin Foil Soldier server has been up for 67 days, 21 hours, 19 minutes, 23 seconds and is proudly powered by WordPress
slate helped me with some php to finally get the uptime stats to finally work with gentoo (it hasnt worked since the site was hosted on seele, a netBSD box)
the php [...]

after steve kept talking about how great google browser sync was, I decided to install it and try it out for syncing my bookmarks between my laptop and my desktop
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – [...]