nerd-credible half-thought scribbles how i pay the mortgage my dumb @ouisequitur tweets yes i said pittures the piney woods passing the time

hermeticallysealedall of the bells, none of the whistles

why?

I'm a web developer/sysadmin/host (NERD TRIPLE THREAT!) and this is my attempt to write about...leaving the house. Sometimes. Like, to go backpacking. And take some pictures. And justify spending the money on all the gear WHY SO MUCH?!?

So check back weekly for all the smrt missives! And the dumb tweets!

Also hiking things!

Feel free to write and complain.

I am number three
22 August 2013

Hearing the announcements from the school across the street makes me anxious that I don't have the right pencils. #CatholicSchoolSurvivor
Own the ball, Danny
21 August 2013

Working on a community web site can be rewarding. But it can also spiral out of control in a hurry. Well-meaning people (and those not so) empowered with tools to instantly reach a large audience on their own will still need guidance and support. As much as we'd like to believe that WordPress and all the rest make our lives as devs easier, it often is just the opposite. Yes, it's easy to update JUST ONE CLICK! but when that update causes a plugin to misbehave and OOPS WHITE SCREEN...you see the problem? 

If you build a site like this -- especially volunteers -- then be prepared to support it indefinitely. You're name is going to be called whether to cast blame or beg for help. It's best to be there from the start to avoid both instances. 
go daddy and dick moves
19 August 2013

It's been standard practice for quite a while that domain registrars are allowed to block you from transfering your domain within 60 days of your registration renewal (this works either before or after). While this is inconvenient for users, it makes some sense for the registrars to keep excess churn at a minimum.

But did you know that the clock resets when you change your registration info? Specifically, first name, last name, or organization? Yup, at least with GoDaddy it sure does.  Now, the common refrain is 'ICANN rules allow this'. I think ICANN rules also allow my dog to take a dump in the living room but it doesn't make it any nicer to clean up.
world war bee
13 August 2013

Ever wonder if that last bug bite made you Patient Zero? #uhoh #pandemic
chopping bad
12 August 2013

Two episodes in and I am glad Walter White isn't a shop teacher.
demetrius no
2 August 2013

Getting older means being upset when the morning weather guy leaves.
mailchimp and templates
2 August 2013

Pulling your last remaining hairs out trying to get MailChimp templates to work right? Wondering why your perfectly set design suddenly looks horrible after saving a copy? Well, MailChimp DOES THINGS IT'S OWN WAY.

Picking a template, choosing Edit Code and then hitting the Save button gives you the option to Overwrite or Save As. Save As makes a copy, but it will NOT retain all of the modifications you've made. You actually need to go to the plain Edit button (or click on the template image). This gets you into the MailChimp editor, which now has a button at the top called Rename or Replicate template.

If you want a true template copy, you need to choose Replicate. Why simply doing Save As doesn't work I have no idea.

This time I write it down
31 July 2013

So, if you're running into the "I have an authentication key all set why won't it work right" and you've gone through all the helpful suggestions like "make sure permissions" and "check sshd config", one last thing to check would be what you named your private key when you ran ssh-keygen.

If you named it something other than the default prompted filename, you need to use the -i switch when trying to ssh so it will know where to look. So try

ssh -i /path/to/your_clever_filename user@hostname

You're welcome.
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