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.

Considering I have not much else to be doing here, you know, cuerentena, I figured I’d take some time out of my seriously busy day to write something about, well, anything at this point.

I took some time to start grabbing images off my phone, and updating some of my photo albums over at bbs.yt. One of the ones I did was the photos I took in Oslo, a very short-lived trip thanks to our friend Rona.

I’ve also been spicing up Miss Kaja’s garden in the evenings with a few candles here and there. She’s spending all her time out there as it’s quite warm, it’s very quiet, and she’s getting fed up of my existence in her space 24/7.

I’m still considering moving where this site is hosted, the server it’s on is rather slow, but then again WordPress is bloated so who knows. It probably won’t work out well regardless. Maybe I’ll check out DreamPress but it’s kind of expensive for a little blog that gets more SPAM than visitors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Otherwise, I got a Kindle, it seemed like a good idea considering that there is only so much of trying to find shit on Farcebook and YouTube to read and watch. It’s worked out, I’ve gone through two books and started a couple of new ones.

I kind of started 1984 in French, I’ve seen the film but never read the book. Figured I probably should after all, but the one I’m getting into now is Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson, I’ve previously read her first book many moons ago, but also not that many days ago.

I also during this lockdown got Disney+ and blitzed through Season 30 of The Simpsons. It wasn’t that bad.

What wonderful news, I can hear my inner 17-year-old self say. After losing my personal domain nrg-online.ca back in the early 2000s to the horrid Michael “Mikey” Yack from FerberleursSabings.com I managed to get it back.

Granted it took many years, but it’s the principle of it all. What do I plan on doing with it ? No idea, maybe make a homage to how much I detest Mikey Yack, but I already did that for a while on mmn.on.ca.

While it’s not a massive victory, by literally any stretch of the imagination, it’s kind of the same feeling I got when I managed to get MrMan.NET on a domain auction from Dynadot in 2014.

Let’s see all the old accounts I still have attached to my old email address now…

I found out about MarsEdit from micro.blog (which you’ll also find a Twitter-esque style micro blog at mmn.on.ca), so I’m literally just testing if it works.

I seem to have some issues with external clients with LJ.GL, thus one must try.

One of my favourite past times is doing updates and breaking shit. If anything it is the pinnacle of running any web app. Why wait for a h4x0r to take you down, when you can DIY.

BBS.yt is an installation of Chevereto that runs on DreamHost, since my one of my cloud storage spaces is DreamObjects, and Chevereto happily will use that to dump my pix in without any issues. Which is great since it’s better than dumping pix on Google.

A couple days ago I get a notification that Chevereto is needing an update, not a problem, click a link and let it do its thing. Except this time, dumb ass did it on his phone.

This is a bad idea since it timed out and spanked everything to a white screen hell. Not my best moment, but there you go, it happened. It took me another couple days to remember I shagged it completely and trying to figure out how to undo the mess I made.

Which is precisely what happened today, thankfully it was a success and now BBS.yt lives for another day.

As you can probably tell from the absolute boringness of this particular post, I’m aiming to do more journal writing (hem blogging) this year to improve my SEO Influencer rating to be less boring.

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.

Because it’s the weekend and I have some free time, I set up a news server for the BBS to give a bit more control of what gets pulled in.

I’m using some old school tech on this one, the old laptop that MMN used to run off, my Freebox, Hamster Playground and NewsProxy.

The feeds are pulled off two different servers depending on
availability, my ISP’s USENET server and AIOE. I will also get the
stats uploaded automatically at some point, but for the moment it’s a manual task. You can find the server stats here :

Let me know as usual if you would like a feed or run in to any problems.

Having been without a solid form of connection to the internet for the past while, I’ve realised the need to get one.  Seeing as I am currently lacking a CB means my iPhone is subject to constant disconnection for lack of payment.  Obviously this is a problem, but I figured that instructing a prélèvement to occur would some how make it be. 

Clearly that is never the case and I will continue to receive arsy text messages about non-payment before my payment date for the forseeable future. 

However, I digress.  Having previously battled SFR I decided it was best to select my own service provider, forgetting completely that France Télécom is always looming in a deep dark corner to ruin your day.  And with efficiency they did just that. 

The first appointment was only available about two weeks after I signed up, I started to receive random calls from nmbers you just can’t call back at awkward times demanding the name of the last person who held a line in the flat.  As I completely skipped names on the convienent drop down list of people I will never know personally to ask, I assumed it would be obvious that this information, much like the Glorious Leader Kim Jung-Il is dead and gone.  But of course the calls still came and I could never talk to them.

When the day arrived, I was jubilant in the knowledge I could soon be streaming hardcore pornography from Tumblr in no time.  That excitement soon died, when it transpired there is a locked room where FT keep the entire building’s wiring and nobody had a key.  These things happen of course, but having to pay 5€ for a phone call to rearrange, well that’s just mean.

My next appointment was equally as distant as the first and convienently placed between the hours of 8am and 10am.  Fairly bog standard for your office worker, but for I, a night bar worker, it might as well be in the middle of the night.

But I wait and see, perhaps the gates of Tumblr Titallation aren’t that far off.

Today we are talking to a crane and a bridge. This may seem slightly mental to you, but now that Hello Lamp Post has super charged the pulse of the urban environment with the ability to speak; it doesn’t seem so mad now.

I took the opportunity to interview a crane and a bridge.

Hello crane #32

Hello, human. All over Bristol objects like me are waking up and asking people about the city. I have a few questions for you. If you were as tall as me, what would you do?

I would sway in the wind like a sleeping Godzilla.

Thanks, short stuff. Someone else told me: ‘Lord over everything’ Another question for you. I can’t see you. Where are you standing?

I am peering over the bridge at your marvel.

Ah, now I see you. Give me a wave. Someone else told me: ‘I’m in the car on my way home now’ Here’s another question. Can you see the Balmoral? She’s a beautiful ship.

I can’t dear crane, for I am blind.

Interesting. I’ll let you go but check other objects for existing codes – almost anything can talk! Want to know why objects like me are waking up? …

That crazy crane was talking mental sticks, but that filthy bridge, well that’s another tale. Dirty bridge said…

I see. Someone else told me: ‘That depends on where you’re swimming.’ I have another question. How about a nice game of Poohsticks?

Yes, it wanted to play with Poo(h). Filthy! CALL THE DAILY MAIL!

Aujourd’hui j’ai fait la décision à changer mes serveurs pour mon BBS.

Maintenant le BBS est sur www.toronto.mmn.on.ca et les pages principale (portail) est sur www.mmn.on.ca (galeries et blog inclus).

Today I have made the decision to change my servers for my BBS.

Now the BBS is on www.toronto.mmn.on.ca and the main site (portal) est sur www.mmn.on.ca (including the galleries and new blog).