Once again my control-freakishness bites me
After probably over a year of voyeuristic trolling my good friend Gina's blog, I got tired of leaving semi-anonymous responses and started up my own blogger account. Being the ultra customizer that I am, I couldn't just do a normal blog though. Nope, I jumped head-first into hosting the blog on my own website/server. So far the only major benefit has been that I can show you really huge pictures and the address bar shows my domain instead of rebturtle.blogspot.com. But little things like that please me. And shiny things. I like shiny things. What was I? Oh yeah...
So I configured my account to dump the archives into the /archives/ folder during my setup. Great. Idiot me neglected to create an /archive/ folder though. I'm not sure how exactly to properly replicate an archive page (in any easy fashion). All the old posts are still there, and I'll find a way to make them all available to you easily. I owe that to all 4 of my casual readers and those lost and bored on the internet which somehow landed here using the Google search string "ketchup," "mynah bird," and "wicker basket." Although I welcome you, I do suggest you seek professional help.
"Once again," you may have been wondering? Let's just say that my computer and my truck are both highly customized, and if you were to poll my family they would tell you that that is the sole reason they would be lower rated in the reliability category. Even though my custom watercooling system for my computer has never leaked in the last 4 or 5 years since I started using it, the tweaking of every hardware component, my registry, and select parts of Windows itself lead to common sightings of the BSOD (blue screen of death), random reboots, etc. I go into people's old Dell computers that are 5 years old and , although slow, are perfectly stable. I reformat and reinstall at least once a year. I am the pinnacle of male tinkering, the summit of which is reached when you can repeatedly break down and rebuild things and end up with extra parts (Where does this bolt go? Oh well, it runs...).
Speaking of unfinished projects, someday I'll get around to fixing the gallery on my website, rebuilding the alumni site for my High School and getting it back online, and maybe a few others that have been laying on the wayside.
So I configured my account to dump the archives into the /archives/ folder during my setup. Great. Idiot me neglected to create an /archive/ folder though. I'm not sure how exactly to properly replicate an archive page (in any easy fashion). All the old posts are still there, and I'll find a way to make them all available to you easily. I owe that to all 4 of my casual readers and those lost and bored on the internet which somehow landed here using the Google search string "ketchup," "mynah bird," and "wicker basket." Although I welcome you, I do suggest you seek professional help.
"Once again," you may have been wondering? Let's just say that my computer and my truck are both highly customized, and if you were to poll my family they would tell you that that is the sole reason they would be lower rated in the reliability category. Even though my custom watercooling system for my computer has never leaked in the last 4 or 5 years since I started using it, the tweaking of every hardware component, my registry, and select parts of Windows itself lead to common sightings of the BSOD (blue screen of death), random reboots, etc. I go into people's old Dell computers that are 5 years old and , although slow, are perfectly stable. I reformat and reinstall at least once a year. I am the pinnacle of male tinkering, the summit of which is reached when you can repeatedly break down and rebuild things and end up with extra parts (Where does this bolt go? Oh well, it runs...).
Speaking of unfinished projects, someday I'll get around to fixing the gallery on my website, rebuilding the alumni site for my High School and getting it back online, and maybe a few others that have been laying on the wayside.
posted by RebTurtle at
11:45 PM
2 Comments:
I would love to move my blog to its own domain but I'm too chicken to deal with it. Maybe in 2009.
By
Chickie, At
July 22, 2008 at 3:46 PM
"Once you go Mac, you never go back."
It's true. I dealt with the BSOD and random reboots, maniacal reformattings and defraggings...then I got a MacBook. My husband got a Mac desktop. No viruses, no unexplained file corruptions, no issues since we switched. I dunno, think on it. :)
By
Flashtrigger, At
July 23, 2008 at 4:46 PM
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