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Nope, no cool content, just a couple of things I wanted to remember to check out.

1. Event Calendar 3 for WordPress
2. Free MMORPGs? In the event that I get bored *and* have time to look at some online games. Not sure if the site or the games are any good, but I didn’t feel like emailing myself this link.
3. [EDIT: Added this one] Create a Custom RSS Feed Aggregator. Seems oversimplified, and without some technical information, but the basic instructions are there, and I’ll be doing something like this for xMEMPHISx. “What is it?” you might ask. I’m not telling. Yet.

I’ll probably be using the Event Calendar on xMEMPHISx – If I get everything worked out with the domain.

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That’s the title of an upcoming “twisted devotion”.

Just wanted to get your brains working.

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Actually, this post has nothing to do with the title. Sorry.

Although I do have a page explaining how I got by the CDS protection, and one of my posts-of-past did contain the words “MySpace” and “Concerts”…

This is actually just me toying with Google results. It appears as though Google has been shuffling my site around quite a bit, as far as what search terms I come up for. I guess it just can’t make up its mind where to put me.

See, I’ve been watching my page statistic information for awhile, in my Google Webmaster Tools account. I started coming up a lot for CDS300 related information – which I guess made since, because I did write about that. But then I noticed something very interesting: I was apparently coming up as the #7 result for people that are searching for “myspace concerts“.

I thought that was very strange indeed, considering

1. the words were used in the title of a post, but not in that context
2. aren’t there many, many other – more popular – websites out there that should be coming up for that phrase?

As you can see, my reasoning didn’t go very far.

I’ll be posting more info as I find out what’s going on – and after I get home – but I want to leave you with one more bit of information:

The company, ClickOnHosting, that hosts my website, appears to have done all of it’s customers a dis-service.

Since the day before yesterday, and continuing for about 36 hours, my email went down. Webmail, POP3 mail, IMAP mail… all of it. Nothing would connect. I submitted trouble tickets, and got responses to a backup Yahoo! account I have – but it took over a day to get email back.

While all of that was going on, my DNS information became (remains) corrupted; therefore this entire website was completely inaccessible to the world. After submitting a few tickets on that, it was corrected back to working order, however DNS reports I’ve gotten still show multiple warnings that could be causing my website to not show up in various places around the US, the World, etc…

I blame my host, not because of downtime – because things happen – but because I think they broke something when they were installing AdSense-like software into my webmail interface.

Yes, by the time I was able to log back in to my webmail, there was extra stuff on the left – apparently automatically fetched RSS feeds of recent news.

That normally wouldn’t bother me, except for the fact that it appears they installed it to make money, and broke everything in the process – and never even sent a “we’ll be performing maintenance” warning email.

If they were going to do something like that, at least give me a heads up, so that if something’s broken I know that someone is actually working on it, or that there’s a reason for it.

It’s also irritating that I lost more than a day of service, including important personal email, so that they could install money-making software into my personal, paid-for, hosting account.

ClickOnHosting – If I’m wrong about any of this, let me know and I’ll correct any of my statements.

That’s all for now,

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Well, I’ve decided to jump off the bridge with everyone else and learn this Ruby on Rails stuff. At least enough to decide if it’s something I want to take up or not.
While I’m at it, though, I’ll also be toying with the new Zend Framework for PHP. Since I speak fluent PHP, and Ruby is a foreign language to me,
I’ll feel like I’m making progress as far as my education goes, even if I’m slow to learn the Rails bit.
In other news (as I like to say), I have plans to start a national campaign for married couples, as well as start back up on xMEMPHISx development.
Thanks for your patience,
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I’m so bad at updates. Jeez.

In recent news, I realized who Daniel was, and felt pretty dumb. He and several friends make cool internet stuff.

I just wonder how he found little ol’ me. = )

Also, a very awesome person I know, Kevin Price, recently started a blog. What’s so great about that is I just listened to one of Weird Al’s new songs, “I’ll Sue Ya”, and not only is it hilarious, but it could be the theme song for the “Because I Said So…” blog. At least the first post.

And a quick last paragraph, as I’m finally here, but not staying long…

I bought a (used) car last week. I took it back. They had it fixed. It seems like something else is wrong now. I’ll be calling them on Monday.
= )

Have a great day,

I promise to write again soon,

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