Sunday, April 12, 2009
CrashPlan backup to 1.5-TB hard drive succeeded, so I unplugged it. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Uploaded photos to Flickr. Worked on Tina's website. Lunch at home with Patrick. Patrick had Joe's Os, leftover pizza. I had small sandwiches, tortilla chips, cow tamale. Shower. Nap. Walked with Patrick around Dolores Park and the Castro. Chatted briefly in line with Kenny at Starbucks. Got sleepy, took a nap at his mom's. The three of us went to Danny, Drew, and Phil's. Phil prepared a delicious Easter dinner. Also attending: psychobauble, Nate, Ludwig, Kevin B, Romy, Nam, Mark, Sandip. Home. Signed up with web hosting at Bluehost. I intend to migrate frankfarm.org from the old Mac Mini I have to Bluehost, so there might be downtime in a day or so for about a day or so. Theoretically, I should be able to save money by moving all my websites and domain registrations to Bluehost. Currently everything is with 5dollarhosting and dotster. More talking on the phone with the credit card company—more problems with early fraud warning blocks. Realized today that Mike Skallas' ad blocking hosts file is officially kaput—the everythingisnt.com domain is no longer registered. The last update of his hosts file was February 13, 2007. I found something similar called the MVPS hosts file on a page called Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File, and it says the last update was March 15, 2009, so it looks like it's current. Installed the hosts file into my Windows Vista VM in Fusion, disabled DNS Client as instructed, all seems well. Late snack: cow tamale.