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Just Shelley

DoS Attacks on Servers

Linode, the company that provides the server I use for my sites has been under constant DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks for days. Right at this moment, I can access my site and the Linode manager, but the London servers are supposedly all down. Tomorrow, the Dallas servers may get hit, again. We haven’t heard why there’s […]

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Just Shelley Weather

Breather

Thankfully, the cold front dipped and we didn’t get all the expected rain last night. Because we had a breather, the load in the sewer system has gone down enough so we can use our plumbing again. Working toilet…hot shower. Seems so mundane, but no pretty jewel or cool electronic gadget is as nice as […]

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Just Shelley

New Incarnation

I always make major site changes during the Christmas holiday. Traffic to my sites is at its lowest, and it just seems a good end-of-year task. I wasn’t quite expecting that the Linode server where my site lives would crash right in the middle of the upgrade, but life isn’t exciting without the little challenges. […]

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Burningbird

Archiving Drupal…Hello WordPress

In the next week, I’m archiving these Drupal-based web pages, and switching over to WordPress. It’s simpler to just archive the old pages than to attempt to get two dissimilar data stores to work together. This post will be part of the archive, and provide a link to the main page for the new pages when finished. […]

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Burningbird

Drupal to WordPress…and Donald Trump

I’m migrating this site from Drupal to WordPress. WordPress makes more sense for my needs. And it’s not as complicated to make a static archive of a Drupal site as it used to be. There, I said it. I’m moving from Drupal to WordPress. It used to be when we made these pronouncements in the […]