The start of a hacker-friendly weekend

It’s winter and I’ve gotten a little lazy about hiking. My list of “must-hike” has shrunk and my list of “must-build” has grown… a lot. So this weekend I’ll be strapped to the bench checking out all the items I’ve gotten in the mail and then picking something to work on.

I don’t know what the normal electronics/software engineering personal “blog” gets for hits, and I imagine it has a lot to do with level of content and frequency of updates? My content level is medium-low (compared to blogs such as absorbtions) but I think I do a decent job of updating the last 8 or 9 months I’ve blogged? Wednesday, while at work, I got a weird noise out of my phone I’d never heard. I took a quick peek at my phone and it was WordPress declaring I had a very high peak of abnormal traffic. Well… it wasn’t kidding. Dangerous Prototypes latched on to my last post. I’m guessing they must get a considerable amount of traffic considering the amount of traffic they pushed to my site despite it being a topic I’d find rather niche. My typical traffic is the occasional google search leading someone new trying to get some feature of a PIC to work. Well anyways, the photo says it all.

That's not a normal week!
That’s not a normal week!

.. so back to the bench!

US Forest Service Website Down.. maybe they ran out of money?

Forest Service website down over missing file or missing budget?
Forest Service website down over missing file or missing budget?

The Us Forest Service website was down this morning. Perhaps a bill went unpaid, or someone accidentally deleted index.html? I guess we’ll see if they come out with an explaination or not. For now it looks like I’m SOL on road conditions in the Northern Cascades unless I want to drive up and talk to the ranger or drive a few more miles and go look for myself.

Good Riddance GoDaddy!

I’ve been so upset over GoDaddy’s horrible support. I moved my account to a company called “A Small Orange”.. what an amazing difference. I moved all my domains… armageddonacres.com, iradan.com, iloveyoumelissa.com, douviercards.com (Melissa’s), and others… I was experiencing 10 second load times, if it loaded. Having to attempt logons multiple times, page timeouts.. you name it.

I’ll let them host my domains. I like their interface but they have to have the worst hosting service I’ve ever seen… so I pay $1.01 more a month for bliss. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

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