As anyone who follows me on twitter knows, I have added drop down menu’s to this site. Its nice, check it out, hover over the “About Me” link up there. Yeah, not bad. Also known by twitter users is the fact that i did not come up with the css, etc. that goes into this. All credit, copyright, whatever goes to @bradkovach (bradkovach.com). I have access to the themes he made for the lcsd2.org sites and i just copied and pasted from there without permission. So i’d like to thank him for his generous lack of anger/suing me.

Now the reason i wanted drop down menu’s in the first place is for semantic organization. Hover over about me and you get contact info, etc., stuff that belongs under about. It also allows me to have more static content while still using this theme. I rather like this theme/don’t feel like looking for another and would prefer to keep it. Now i can.

Sometime in the future i will be adding things like contact info and actual content. If you have any suggestions/hate, please use the contact page to let me know.

As very few of you know, (maybe i should actually put something in the about me section) i started this little website as a project to learn linux better and to learn to manage a webserver. Since then, this little project has turned into something i actually care about and take a measure of pride in. This is due in no small part to the miracle that is google apps for your domain.

I like managing a webserver. I like manually managing bind and apache from the command line. I like the sense of control i feel when i am able to make any changes i want any time i want. What i don’t like though, is email. Email is evil. Go ahead, take a look at the configuration files for sendmail sometime. Try postfix, not much better. I don’t want to do email but i want to get email. So what did i do? I went with google apps for your domain.

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I’ve been using host-tracker for a while now to monitor my uptime. Today they sent me my quarterly report and i’m pleased to report, to you, that my uptime is better than many for pay shared hosting providers. My little server that i put together myself, running directly on the grid with no UPS, running off a little tiny slow home dsl connection, and connected to that connection via an old wireless bridge is better than some datacenters. That is just awesome. Below i have included the report they sent me, whitespace and all.

Quarterly report 2008-01

http://www.jessecole.org
Total uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)
Quarterly uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)
Month 2008-03 Uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)

*Update*So, wordpress helpfully stripped the white space. Yay!

So finally, 3 weeks after the scheduled date, wordpress version 2.5 has been released. Wordpress is the software i use to power this site and the new version gives me some nice new featured to help with that. That doesn’t mean you will see any better content nor will it come any more often. It just means that the new version is out and i’m using it.

I’ve made a new page detailing the site policy, etc. I also realized that you apparently cannot leave comments for a page and that no one could contact me without using a post that may or may not be relevant. I’ve created a new text box on the left sidebar(to the right) with all my contact info to get ahold of me. I also turned on user registrations so people can have a little more of a permanent presence on my blog. If this starts getting abused by bots, etc. i may have to get some capchas in there or turn it off. If you request, i may up your status from subscriber to something that can submit posts, etc. to me.

I hope you enjoy the new changes and happy blogging .

Ok, so i’ve added the following button somewhere on the site.

Its awesome and will definitely attract more viewers. Definitely more viewers. Oh. Yeah.

P.S. If said button does not appear on the site then i am currently curled up in a fetal position crying over my inability to add it to said site. Help me.

I looked through my access logs that i’ve kept around since i got this site going. Below are the biggest visitors to my site according to how many “hits”(i think this is where that word applies) each unique ip has.

14179

192.168.0.105


1659

137.90.169.200


957

192.168.0.110


838

127.0.0.1


560

66.249.70.74


316

67.43.173.121


185

66.249.65.142


144

192.168.0.111


141

38.100.41.102


117

69.92.61.124

As you can see, the most popular visitor is me(192.168.0.105,192.168.0.110) and the server itself(127.0.0.1,192.168.0.111). Next we have 137.90.169.200 which is the school district where i work so those are probably mine as well. Next is 66.249.70.74 which happens to be google, crawling my site. Next is 67.43.173.121 who i don’t really know anything about except they screwed up their nameserver. Next is google again then we have some company in washington, dc that owns a /8 ip range and then kyle. So…you suck. My top 10, and you’re not in it. Thanks.

Have you ever seen on websites where they show you some lines of code and those lines are seperated in a little box and clearly demarcated from the rest of the page? I’ve always wanted to be able to do that, now i can. I’ve edited the style.css page here and added a style for the code tag. Once i get it how i want it i’ll retroactively put code tags around all the code i’ve ever posted. See below for what i settled on.

pre {border: inset 1px blue;
font-size: 1.3 em;
color: blue;
margin: 10px;
padding:10px;
background: #fde8b9}

*Update*
I’ve finished adding the pre tags to the rest of the code on the site. That right i said pre tags. Turns out, pre, standing for “preformatted text”, reproduces exactly what is in the text including whitespace, etc. This was more useful than the code tags which don’t quite do that. Also, i found out that if you paste something from dreamweaver mx into a post and then save it, it drops everything after what you pasted and crashes the browser. So…don’t do that.

I forgot to mention before my last post but i have a new theme.  You like?  I feel it has a pirate type of feel to it.  Anyway, its new.  Leave suggestions in the comments.