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Just a quick note for all of your Feedburner users (I’m talking to site owners here). For two days now, Feedburner has been sporadically throwing errors… not actually redirecting people to the sites they want to go to:
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Sucks for the site owners, and for me. This kind of thing is why [...]

Interesting quote:
A common rule of thumb I tell people is to target their performance goals in application design and coding so that their infrastructure (not including people) is ≤10% of an application’s revenue.
Does that mean if I’m spending 5% of revenues on application infrastructure, I’m way underspending, or making more money?

I can’t say this enough. Dreamhost Rocks!
If you’re looking for a new shared hosting plan, you really ought to check out Dreamhost.
They just started a new sale this month:
From: support@dreamhost.com
Subject: [Announcement] New! All Shared Hosting Disk Space Doubled!
Date: September 1, 2005 4:26:34 AM CDT
To: John Engler
Hey Happy DreamHost Disk Hogs!
Starting Monday we began a [...]

Anyone know how to get multiple Google ads on one page to display properly?
update: Ok, nevermind, I figured it out. I had a problem with my PHP code that was causing more than 3 Adsense ads to be written to the page, so I fixed that, then waited a few minutes to see the [...]

I’m finally moving this site off of my dedicated server and onto the Dreamhost account… and it’s going to be an ugly move.
This move is completely based on the idea of me saving money on my hosting (from $150/month ot $8/month thank you very mouch) bills… not on making the transition as smooth as possible. [...]

This is ridiculous:

70% spam this month. Sucks.
Time to seriously consider installing a server-side spam filter.

About a week ago, I got this email from my hosting provider (The Planet):
We have recieved reports of spam originating from this server. Please investigate, address the issue, and update this ticket with your action(s).
Due to the nature of this issue, failure to resolve the issue and update this ticket within 48 hours may result [...]

These people/sites really piss me off because they’ve been spamming my referrers:
xsonnerie.com
riaa.com
And… I won’t be voting for John Kerry
blog.johnkerry.com
Those three sites have been spamming my referrers for the past month or so…
They just got added to my referrer spam list in my referrer scripts… oh, I also don’t montior blogspot.com sites anymore thanks to the [...]

Has anyone else noticed that now that the Can-Spam Act passed by the federal government has gone into effect, spam via email is actually worse than it was?
This is ridiculous. In the past week I’ve received at least 4-5 times more spam than I did in a week last year…
I’d like to install [...]

This morning, I was subjected to a rant against Microsoft Office 2003 by my wife. She hates it. I’ve never used it, so this is my recreation of her story to me.
Setting: We’re both on the couch, about to watch some Saturday morning College Football, when a commercial for Office 2003 comes on [...]

John Gruber takes issue with Microsoft, and Outlook, and the virus issues allowed by Microsoft, in his latest article “Good Times“:
We, as a society, have decided that indoor plumbing should be held to high standards of reliability and maintenance. And somehow weíve been convinced that indoor computing should not.
And in the follow up “Dynomite!“:
Complexity [...]

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In case you didn’t notice, I finally did a little housekeeping with my URL structure (after writing about it many, many times). Thanks in large part to a bunch of articles I’ve read recently about URLs, and an excellent conversion tutorial from Olivier Travers (which is where almost all of my tricks came from), [...]

I happened to have the occasion to move a web site today. We moved MarketingFix.com from one server to another, but we didn’t move the DNS yet (because we hadn’t set up email and all of the internal lists we’re still running @marketingfix.com) so, we had to figure out how to send traffic coming [...]

Jerermy’s had some fun with a guy that was stealing images from his website. Read all about it in Fun with mod_rewrite.

When I get back from my vacation, the top priority on my list is installing SpamAssassin, thanks to the mini-review that John Gruber just posted

Thanks to Noel, I installed PhotoPal, which is a fantastic automatic photo album layout engine. I love it… the software package is still in the dev phase (it’s only at version .9x) as of my installation, but it rocks.
One thing that’s lacking is the documentation, but Noel’s pretty responsive to email.
I needed to install [...]

A few months ago, I asked my SFA Manager to get me access to my email from outside the company firewall. He gave me a RSA keyfob and set up two dial-up connections in XP for me to use to connect to the company intranet, so I could check my email from outside the [...]

Quick note: Collectrix looks like a great cost sensitive hosting company… must check them out later

Scott helped me out a bit a week ago or so, and I forgot to say thanks. He was in the middle of being pretty sick, and he still came to my rescue.
Thanks Scott.
Now, if you ever find yourself in the same stupid position that I was in (hard drive’s full on a server [...]

So, here’s the funny thing:
I’m sitting on the SXSW Tradeshow floor, setting up my company’s booth and the PowerMac G4 (DP 1.4GHz with a 23″ Cinema Display, btw) doesn’t have Office installed on it, so I pull out my trusty little iBook, and make a quick copy for the trade show (we’ve got the license, [...]

So, a worm hit the internet this weekend… and then…
Michael Radwin (who I found through Jeremy) posts a great little diatribe on why server admins don’t upgrade. Read it. Great fun.

As seen on /., I received this email from my host this morning:
At approximately 11:28 pm on 1/24/2003, NOC engineers observed significant inbound and outbound traffic across all backbone carriers and internal router/switching infrastructure. Our emergency network response team was immediately deployed and began troubleshooting the problem. Upon the first notification to our carriers, [...]

Wow.
Text Pattern
Brought to you by Dean Allen.
Looks totally cool, very useful, and fun.
I’ll definitely be looking into it for a client in the near future.
Dean, if you’re reading, I’ll need to know what the pricing will be buddy.
Oh yeah, one more time:
WOW!

If you want to publish your email address on a website, you’re gonna get spam, but there are a few things you can do to cut down on the amount of spam you get.
The easiest is to not publish your email address on a website. You’ll still get some spam, but your ISP should [...]

So, us MarketingFix folks have decided that we needed a private weblog so that we could post things that others might need to see in a written + image form, in addition to our little email list that we’ve set up (thanks to EZMLM)… it’ll also help my colleagues learn more about MovableType I’m thinking [...]

How to get Plucker, a decent AvantGo replacement, working on Mac OS X.
Jeremy Zawodny will be playing with MySQL and Terrabytes of data…
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Lots of good, fast, free utilities here:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
…for those times when you don’t have your own machine with all your own tools installed on them.

Only O’Reilly can publish an article like Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs and do it well.
Perfect… just what I need to figure out how to get my email.pst file off my office PC and onto my office Macintosh, so that I can transfer it to my iPod, which’ll then let me [...]

I spent the better part of the day trying to learn more about ezmlm which is the qmail companion software for mailing list management. I’ve got it installed and am running one list, but I have no real knowledge about how it works.
We want to offer more lists and tie into it using php/mysql [...]

So, our little marketingfix.com is getting a bit of traffic now, and the guys all (okay, really just Rick) are asking for more traffic data. I’ve looked around for good free open source solutions and have found things like Analog and Webalizer, which are great, but are a pain in the ass to set [...]

I had to figure out some Apache stuff today, so that I could password protect a web directory for the new group weblog I’m working on with a few other collaborators (we’ll be covering marketing issues and the like) so I asked our sysadmin for some help, and read a few tutorials.
[note: I realize most [...]

I talked to my techs today about our ad server platform, and believe it or not, they actually have plans to move it over to a Linux based solution (same software, new OS) sometime in the next 6 months or so…
Which translates to “We hope to have it moved over in 6 months, but realistically, [...]

I was chatting with our sysadmin tonight about DNS, and pointed out a rant that he posted on DNS today. He also told me that I should learn more about DNS, as its fundamental knowledge that any one with an operational interest in the internet (or their own web services) should know. He [...]

Today was a rough day.
I got up late, checked email, answered a few personal emails that had to be answered, and headed to work. I arrived about 20 minutes late, but my boss was out of the office all day, so while I was late, there will be no reprocussions…
I’m the guy responsible for [...]