My ex-wife has cancer and I have come to say goodbye.

Her dog will be sad and happy and attentive and comforting. He will pee in the yard a lot.

        Her family will envelop her

Her husband will bear the weight with a smile, a quip and a calm understanding. We will see him for who he truly is.

        She will be beautiful and calm

Construction workers will do their level best to ensure we all go together. We will want to convince them that she has made a wish to tear up the sidewalk with a backhoe.

        I will see Santa in the airport, waiting to fly to Phoenix

All of these things happened. All of these things are true.

        We are all very lucky because she made us better

So, you're trying to restore a web site backup using cPanel and you get the

Account Creation Status: failed (Sorry, a mysql user with the name blerg already exists.)

Account Restore Failed... Restore failed.

Wooops.

The solution (well, a solution) is to go into phpMyAdmin and check which database has the conflicting user. If you don't want to take the time to change usernames/configs (say, you're trying to restore several sites at once and time is of the essence), simply remove the account with the conflicting username and then restore your site backup. THEN restore the site you removed.

This has worked twice so far. It seems cPanel may sometimes not prefix MySQL usernames properly.

Switching from From Here to Eternity to Hogan's Heroes they truly are #TheGreatestGeneration

Lil Twist and Lil Za sound like items from the kid's menu at Olive Garden #TMZ #WhyDoWeBother #WhyDoWeCare

The resources section is the junk drawer of web sites. #JustSayNoToResources

A handy little cron command for Ubuntu is @reboot. For some reason I am too lazy to research properly I kept getting

[psad-status] firewall setup warning

on startup. Not hard to fix, but annoying. So creating a quick script to run

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j LOG

and call it from crontab with

@reboot /home/pms/iptables-set.sh

does the trick.

Just when I started to regret not having enough beef jerky the power comes back on #FirstWorldProblems

If telling me what to do was a full-time job, my wife would be Employee of the Month #YesDear #IWillNotMowLawnWithWeedWhacker