Kévin

I started to get my shit together during what is now the fifth week of being locked in a box my home and getting all my online stuff in order.

The idea was to use a pretty good domain I found on backorder, ynn.org, getting a three-letter .org would have been the masterpiece, but instead some dipshit domain guru auction site got it. So it’ll never be available again, forever full of ads to buy it which nobody ever will.

But I digress, after reeling in from my perceived loss of the situation, I got my brain working. Granted it didn’t work well, since one of my ideas was Downtown. Yes, I now own dtne.org because that made a lot of sense.

I got thinking again, later, looking for a few combos, then I started to link things, and looked for uldl, upload download. To be fair in the early 90s I used to do more D/L than U/L, but it read right and uldl.org was available. I renamed my WordPress from it’s temporary name Project X (pjx.mmn.on.ca) which it turns out you don’t do that because it fucks everything up. A few rules in CloudFlare later, it’s somewhat fixed but still not quite working with my S3 upload system.

I started to move my domains over, I imported my huge post history from lj.gl to this new WordPress Multisite install at uldl.org, asked the gods at Jetpack to move over the subscription and voilà we’re here now.

Using the redirect plugin for WP over at lj.gl I’ve got everything redirecting. There are still some issues, since WP crashed out if I tried to import the media library, which is irrelevant anyways since all the images still live in the same Object space, but WP doesn’t give a shit and broke all the images for the lolz. There also seems to be a loss of about one thousand articles, somewhere, no idea what since the import was successful, but as I find them I’ll bring them over by hand.

After this cacophonie of hell was completed I’ve started moving in other sites, I’m kind of halfway through bbs.ec, I got phlog.bbs.ec over with no problems at all. The decision on that, was to move it into this journal rather than being its own thing. Which makes sense, since I want to control more where I post things.

Although all the other network sites have their own blog parts, I keep my various personal posts at journal.uldl.org mirrored with my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal and the other stuff that is more related to the « not really a personal post thing » I put in the uldl.org news section. I’m also working on a better menu system to fluidly switch between the networked sites. There will be some weird-ass shit for a while, no lies.

Some of the other good things about this arsery is that this site is hosted on a dedicated server with DreamHost, so it’s more reliable than the previous place I hosted lj.gl. I also have centralised where I keep all the contact forms to uldl.org directly, so I don’t have to piss around with too much nonsense.

I’m heading back to the grindstone on this one to finish off bbs.ec and drop in the redirections.

The recent election is what we all kind of expected, Brexit was just the test the Conservatives to see how much lying they could get away with and still manage a win. If anything the cover photo says it all, in BoJo’s riding they had a choice of a bunch of fucking clowns and a labour candidate, they went for the biggest clown they could find. 👏

Then we have the bizarre world of « I can’t really stand Corbyn, so I voted Con » lot, which in itself is counterproductive, but hey, you do you.

Either way, I’m not going to dedicate an entire post to this consortium of shit fuckery, because I’d just be repeating what everybody else has been saying and that clearly falls on deaf ears. That and some bot will probably start attacking my blog, the usual things that happen when people don’t agree with you online. 🤷‍♂️

Side note : Grammarly seems to think this post is « optimistic », I think your AI is fucked chaps.

In actual optimistic news though, other than the Great Strike of 2019 griding France to a halt, I have got an upgrade on my internet. 10GB fibre, which has been so amazing. Granted I didn’t realise you had to request a specific IP type from my provider and I panicked a little when my Freebox started to refuse to let me use certain ports. But it was pretty easy to fix, it seems like a pretty solid security patch for those who have no idea what they’re doing from causing havoc in the IP range.

Another update on the news front is that oddly enough I managed to grab I domain I didn’t expect, I was trying to register something else, but Autocorrect did its thing. I went through the checkout and setup without even clocking it.

So here I am right now the proud owner of eu.sb 🇪🇺😂 I can’t say that I’m upset about this moment, but it for once autocorrect didn’t duck something up badly.

Yesterday I finally got most of my adulting things out of the way, getting keys copied, a hair cut, followed by giving up going to the shop and ordering food online. I feel that this could have been the top point of being an adult, I have peaked everybody. Incidentally, I had a bit of a shock when I realised I’m 2 years older than I remembered. Oops.

I guess I’ll finalise this post off with a shameless ad.

bbs.yt, ec.gy, frankenserver.eu, mono.mx, uun.nz, and zigs.eu are being shared via Free DNS, a dynamic DNS domain sharing project where members can setup, and administrate their DNS entries on their own remote internet-connected systems in real-time. You can register your own subdomains at ec.je/public/freedns/default.wct.

Also, if anybody actually still reads this blog I’d be interested if you dropped a comment in the comments, I might put it on my life plan to update more often if there are still lurkers.

I have managed to do two things in the last twenty four hours that I have been wanting to do forevers.

The first being, after many years of wanting to run my own version of the LiveJournal code, I finally got my shit together to do so. Granted, since LiveJournal has since dropped off the open source circuit, it’s a Dreamwidth install. But it’s forked off LiveJournal’s code.

I’m currently up all night due to last weeks great effects of la grippe, with my sleep patterns completely gone crazy, I figured a good long haul to the evening will fix things up.

To do this, I of course must be busy doing things, and things in this case is making sense of my various websites and my web presences.  I think I went totally OTT at one point since, there like be hundreds.

One of them which is going to come offline is vx.sg, it was the precurser to this blog.  My first use of Ghost as a blogging platform, don’t get me wrong, Ghost is pretty good.  But it lacks easy configuration, it was worth it to get my hands on it, but a pain to keep running.  There is of course also the fact it’s hosted on a DreamCompute instance which I no longer hold SSH keys for.  I will of course be keeping this domain, I have a fondness of it in the same sense as my other short ones #ILikeShortDomains.  I’m becoming a real fan of simplicity, I do love something complex to get my hands on, understand and discover, but in the long term those kind of projects I tend to abandon, since I don’t really have enough time to give them the care they deserve.

The next one to kind of start, is Signal Earth, this was a really good idea in my sleep deprived nostalgic mind.  I used to have a trashy AngelFire account which I posted all my young Alien related things, being a creative type, I used to create things out of plasticine take photos, scan them (as were the days) and create storylines.

This I really should have never got out of, it was fun, got me outside and even if nobody read any of it, I made it with my hands.  So since thar be a WordPress, I think this will fit in well with it’s own category.   Perhaps even throwing up the pics on nbcam.

Also on the new block, retrowa.re, I have an affinity for classic computing, it’s my main jam and I still run a BBS after all.  I want to get some of my classic games up on the BBS and file them in to various reviews.  I have a huge collection of Commodore 64 games, all on tape which would be amazing to save.  How I am going to present the BBS things, I do not know just yet.  I may possibly run another WordPress instance, but I will need to consider this heavily, as one too many of the same thing is pointless.

Speaking of the BBS, I’m considering bringing this up on to this site, it’s fitting I think.  But we shall see over the coming hours how this works out.

I set up a blog on my personal homepage a while back, however, I some how managed to crap it out completely.

So here I am sleepless again (with an early start) playing around with another WordPress installation. It seems stable, but I haven’t yet the heart to move it across.

The Out of Memory error is still freshly burnt in to my soul.

With all that has happened so far, I’m glad to report this is perhaps the least interesting drama I can come up with.

I think I’ll fiddle some more and write something actually interesting.

Well i was going to post to my wordpress blog but it seems that i forgot to renew the domain.

Doof!

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

I have now successfully set-up my WordPress blog and now it’s crossposting to LJ in theory, so in fact, one could determine this is a test post, no?

Originally published at Кевин. You can comment here or there.

Dear LiveJournal,

I’m about to import all my old posts because after deleting and reinstalling this blog I finally got LJ CrossPost to work, so er, I might double up on all my posts for the last two years :s

Originally published at Кевин.com.ua. You can comment here or there.