Burvil's Life: Sanctification in Progress

I’ve upgraded a couple things.

Doesn’t seem to be any bugs with this version of WordPress, so I’m trying this again in debug mode.

Well, I’ve finally migrated my site off a friend’s server. He was gracious enough to host it for a number of years, but it’s kinda nice to configure the OS, install packages and not having to worry about disk space. I still have to configure some things here and there with the stats packages I use, but for the most part, things are set up. It’s also been a nice learning experience going through the server logs and seeing what kind of attacks come from script kiddies out there. It seems a fair amount seem to be from botnets, as they often use brute force to guess at paths like http://domain/phpmyadmin and so on, and the OS that shows in the browser is often some version of Windows. Of course, there’s the usual robots – google feedfetcher, googlebot, msnbot, yahoo, ask.com, etc. as well.

In putting this site up again, I’m reminded of my good friend and coworker Brad that passed away last year. I put up a photo gallery of him, but realized I hadn’t really wrote about it. Hopefully, I’ll see him in heaven one day.

Christmas was quiet this year. We had dinner at a friend’s place, talked with family and relaxed at home. We’re over on the travel budget this year, with our trip to France and my brother’s wedding. Susan’s still recovering from a cold, too.