Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

Since I now have access to cheap hosting and domain names cost me $8 I have way too much freedom to do silly things.
One of those silly things is create binaryblockssucks.com.
As you may know, Binaryblocks was a web hosting reseller that went out of business by not paying their bills. I had been using Binaryblocks, and had recommended it to friends and family. When they went out of business, they caused trouble & headache for me and thousands of others.
To give people a place to vent their anger and discuss solutions to problems, I created binaryblockssucks.com. I’ll post up a few documents later, but for now, I’ve installed a forum where people can post whatever they want.
On a side note, Michele headed out for a quilting expedition this morning at 4AM. She is going to be helping at a show and visiting her grandmother. Me and the girls are going to be having some fun until she returns on Sunday. We intend to leave clothes on the floor, play computer games, and not vacuum. Well, maybe I’ll vacuum just befroe she returns to avoid the wrath.

It appears we made it through the day without terror.
I feel lucky that while I am sad today, I was not directly linked to the horror a year ago. After watching a few hours of the interviews with family members I realized that I can’t even imagine what these people have gone through. Seeing a widowed husband talk about his young children and how they miss their mother was too much. I’m lucky I could turn off the TV. The victim’s families don’t have this luxury.
Life goes on and we pass this milestone. I can only hope that I don’t see somethign this terrible again in my lifetime.
The page I put up today is here.

If you can read this, you are reaching the new host.
Welcome back loyal readers!
The dust has almost settled and Cruft will be back in action soon enough.

Well, there are many, many people mad at binaryblocks.com. There appears to be a reward to track down Jason Piercy, the owner of binaryblocks. Check out the page, it’s hilarious.
I was surprised to see that if you do a search on ‘binaryblocks’ on google, my site comes up. If you find this site via google, I suggest you call cobaltracks to try to get your data off the servers or your site back up.
I’m getting close to moving this site, so stand by for further disruption.

I continue to have trouble with the great binaryblocks disaster.
Not time to post really. Between work and getting people’s site’s back up, it’s a pain. But it appears that Michele’s site is up and updated!

It seems that the webhost for this site, Binaryblocks, has not been paying their bills. As a result, today the company that actual runs the servers turned them off.
This has upset many, many people.
As a result, I am having to make arrangement to get this site and others I run hosted elsewhere. What a pain.

We just had an earthquake.
Everyone is safe. I predict a 4.2.
Michele was right, it was earthquake weather.

Brad and I have debating the cost of pizza dough via weblogs.
He wrote an excellent cost analysis of the store bought pizza dough versus dough made from scratch.
Here’s what Brad didn’t know…

For to many years, I played online games and found my calling fighting the players that tried to hurt other players. I wrtoe up many stories about these fights. After 4 years, I finally burned out on the nightly routine and decided to take a break. The grief players have not.
After 5 years, grief players have made the front page. I guess when the big money of Sony & Microsoft gets involved it takes on a financial risk. This morning’s LA Times has a front page article about online grief players. (You can use the username/pass of cpunks/cpunks to get in.)
Old habits die hard. The first thing I did after reading the article was get on the computer and try to track down the griefer, Kurt Frerichs, mentioned by name in the article. What I would do when I tracked him down, I’m not sure. But the urge to go after him with vengance was strong. I found a few things, but nothing that clearly tied the Kurt Frerichs mentioned in the article with the Kurt Frerichs I found via searches.

I wrote up a little page on How to make a up of tea.
Enjoy.