Server Update
The server is back up and running. Unfortunately all of the data was lost. We’re not exactly sure what happened, but it looks like we may have been hacked. Hopefully everyone will be able to get their sites back up without too much trouble. Of course I have to recreate everyone’s account, so hostees will get an email from me letting you know that yours is done. If you don’t have recent backups, one suggestion that may help you is checking the google cache. Just google your site address, and click on “cached” next to the search result.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Another Server Update
It looks like all the data is gone. My techs at the datacenter reinstalled cpanel and they’re trying to find out what happened. We may have been hacked.
Meanwhile, cpanel has been reinstalled, so I’m setting that back up, and I’ll be setting all user accounts back up, and I’ll help get everyone back up and running as much as I can.
If you have backups of your hosted sites, you should get them ready if you can. The main thing most of us will probably loose would be databases, (for forums, etc). I know I haven’t backed up most of my databases in a while, so I’m right there with the rest of you. If you don’t have local backups of your website saved on your hard drive, here’s a suggestion; make a new layout to use when you come back, and say your site is being revamped. This will help give you time to rebuild.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Server Update
It looks like cpanel needs to be reinstalled on the server. I’m still waiting to see if the data is lost or not.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Websites Down
For those of you who don’t know, all of my websites and those hosted on my server have been down for the past two days.
Initially I thought that the problem was just a simple matter of an expired domain name, but once that was cleared up, I began encountering a completely separate problem. I have been working to try to resolve it all day, and the technicians at the data center where my server is have done all they can to help. Initially we thought it was a simple connection problem and the server was power-cycled. With some more work I was finally able to log in via SSH but still couldn’t get into cpanel or connect via ftp. The problem may be worse than we realized, and the user accounts may be lost. I’m hoping that there’s some sort of mixup and everything can be put back to normal, but just in case we have to rebuild, everyone should get together what they do have and be prepared to set their sites back up again. I do not expect another message from them tonight, as it is midnight on a Sunday(here anyway). If this problem cannot be resolved promptly, I may have to buy a new server somewhere else. I am still hoping that we can restore everything on the server and get everything back up, but I am letting everyone know what is going on.
I apologize to all of my hostees for this inconvenience. I assure you that I am doing everything that I can to resolve this, and I will try to make it up to you all when we are back up.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)I *heart* Web 2.0
I do, I totally 
Web 2.0 sites, the concept behind them, community, open source, web-based content, no paper! hooray! So I’m attempting to learn to use Ajax in the hopes of being able to use it for my own projects. Yesterday I got to print my own check from a logo I made. That was pretty fun. It had all the thrill of printing my own money, yet it was legal. Normally, though, I try to avoid printing. My uncle is getting married next month, and although I’m perfectly happy to design things like invitations, the actual printing of said invitations is dubious. I can handle printing ordinary card sized invitations, I’m just glad I don’t have to mail them. Mailing is the true evil. I already intend on building my own website software to run my future wedding site including invitations and RSVP system and everything in the hopes that I will not have to use paper invitations with actual mailing involved. I hate mailing things. Plus it’ll be alot easier when my guest list is stored in a MySQL database. I used to think I’d have to mail to the few hold-outs without email… but I can’t think of any now. Hooray!
Oh well, I love Web 2.0. It seems that every day there’s something else new and shiny to check out on the various tech and Web 2.0 blogs. Does anyone have a Vox invitation? I really fancy having one…
Filed under Journal, Online | Comment (0)Pink Linux Box: Part 1
I’ve been wanting to put together a linux box for a while, and I’ve finally collected enough spare parts to do it. I decided to spice up the plain beige case I snagged from my uncle by also making this my first pink P.C.
Yes, I am a girl. 
So, here’s the case I’m starting out with. Just a plain beige case, but pretty nice.
[img]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2153/370/320/IMG_1255.jpg[/img]
One of the main things that I was confused about was how to get the front off of my DVD drive so that I could paint it. Thanks to the helpful members here, I figured it out without much trouble after the tip that you need to open the drive
[img]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2153/370/320/IMG_1261.jpg[/img]
Here are my primered components
[img]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2153/370/320/IMG_1259.jpg[/img] [img]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2153/370/320/IMG_1258.jpg[/img] [img]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2153/370/320/IMG_1260.jpg[/img]
Next stop, pink paint!
Filed under Online | Comment (0)High School Musical DVD is Out!
I totally love this movie. Expect a slew of graphics and things from the DVD. :thDance:
Filed under Online | Comment (0)New Linkroll with Ma.gnolia
I used to use blogrolling for my linkrolls, but for quite a while I’ve known that it was insufficient. I recently read an article about how great the Ma.gnolia API is and I decided to check it out. I’m glad I did because it was very easy. If you want to try it, just register go to Ma.gnolia Addons. I just used the Link Roll Generator and made one roll with a special tag for my “friends” list, and one with a special tag for my “links” list. I put the bookmarklet in my browser, so when I want to add a link to one of my rolls, I just click the bookmarklet and tag it with the correct tag. It’s very easy to style to match as well.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Feed Icons are Pretty Now!
I’ve made a few of the now standard feed icons in some nice colors.
I also have been seeing that new itunes commercial lately. I don’t know why, but I just loved it, and I made some animated icons/avs it. There is a full and an under 40k version of each.
Some Website Recs
I’ve been joining more and more “web2.0″ sites lately, and there are a few newish ones or ones I’ve just recently started using alot that I’d like to mention.
First of all, there’s Birthday Forever. This is especially important since my birthday is coming up in about a month!
It gives you countdown graphics to your next birthday like these:
(click to go to my birthday site!)
That alone would’ve been enough for me to use the site, but it also lets you add a wishlist including import from Amazon, add contacts and send them newsletters, and add photos(presumably birthday photos). It even has fun facts about your birthday on the front page.
I’ve also been using Stylehive alot. It’s social bookmarking for shopping! It works similarly to delicious. You put a bookmarklet in your browser, and when you see a product you like at an online store; from purses to furniture to electronics, you just click the bookmarklet and tag it, plus you can pick the picture to represent it and add the price and even send your pick to a friend.
Another I’ve been using lately is Last.fm. I’ve known about it for a while, but what really made me start using it was the mashup site combining it with Pandora, PandoraFM. It tracks the music you listen to and you can find other music that you might like based on what you’ve played. You can also get an output of your recently played songs for your website or forum signature.
Filed under Journal, Online | Comment (0)A Big Collection of Free File Hosting
Collection of 50+ free file hosting from 10MB to 2GB that do not require registration, with detailed of file size limit, download limit and file life. Keep it for future reference. I think my favorites from the list are TurboUpload for smaller files and Up-File or MooLoad for larger files, but check them out for yourself!
Filed under Online | Comments (55)Easter Soundtrack
Easter is coming up pretty soon, so I decided to make an Easter themed mix. There are 18 tracks with cover and back art.
get it here
Web Server
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged alot lately. This is partly because I recently got a dedicated web server, and have been working on getting all my sites transferred. Some have been more complicated than others. For some reason, some of my mySQL databases don’t want to transfer all nicely. Ah, well. It seems to be working alright otherwise and my domains are propoating all fast.
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Are You More…
01) One who will buy twice as much discount beer/wine/liquor or one who will buy half as much premium beer/wine/liquor? I suppose I would buy half as much premium (note: I am applying this principal to chocolate)
02) A fan of self-help books or a person who thinks most of the self-help industry is based on scamming? most self-help books are fairly lame
03) A meeting lover or a meeting hater? well, they’re not my favorite thing ever
04) Hockey or soccer? what’s not to hate? one is thrust upon children at a young age, one involves ice. I like the mighty ducks movies, though. That’s really the only point in having hockey.
05) Basketball or football? fairly equally unpleasant. both are cause for “school spirit”, but I suppose I’d have to say that football is worse.
06) Baseball or golf? there’s an interesting one. golf is quiter… but baseball makes the best sports-related movies. I mean, who doesn’t love The Sandlot?
07) Golf driving range or batting cage? both sound fear-inducing. I suppose the cage aspect would make the balls more contained, though
08) Potentially disapproving of a person’s lifestyle or potentially disapproving of a person’s attitude? lifestyle. I’m a bit more outspoken there I would think.
09) The funniest among your immediate family or the craftiest? probably more like funniest
10) Apt to disbelieve a politician until they prove themselves truthful or apt to believe a politician until they prove themselves untruthful? I’m pretty trusting I guess
Cross-posting Madness
I recently added livejournal cross-posting on my blog. I’ve used livejournal for a while, but I only used it for communities and didn’t blog on it, so it looked pretty sad. I thought it was pretty neat. A few days later; I’ve never used myspace before, but I have a couple friends(including my childhood best friend and sister) that use it. I thought, if I could crosspost my blog entries to myspace as well it would be worth setting one up. I started trying to hack my blog script to crosspost to myspace yesterday. I asked my friend who’s an actual programmer about it, and it took a while, but tonight he finally got it figured out and now, so here it is. I’m posting this entry to my blog once, and it’s getting posted in three different places. Woohoo!
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So great
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The ABC’s of Anne of Green Gables
I have claimed Anne of Green Gables over at ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
abc_icons and this is my project base. I’ve only got a few done so far, but here is my layout and everything.
( A is for Anne... )
Filed under Online | Comments (2)Sky High trailer caps
I know, cheesy. But I saw the movie this weekend and it was totally cute. 200+ caps from the trailer.
teaser:
( samples, zip file and gallery )
Filed under Online | Comments (5)Narnian Icons
Narnian icons from the Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe trailer. I made some of these, like, the day it came out but then I made lots of bases but for some reason I had trouble customizing them. In the past couple of days I came up with a bunch of nice stuff, so here it is
teasers:
( roar of love )
Filed under Online | Comments (5)1 Assassins, 3 Wicked ringtones
These are the full audio ringtones, each about 30 seconds long. There are two formats, the first is the mp3/mid format which I know works for my LG VX7000 phone with verizon. I hear the VX6100 also uses the same format. The other is the “purevoice” .qcp format which seems to be used by alot of sprint phones. If you don’t know what your phone uses, I suggest just experimenting. If you want to preview the ringtones, you’ll need to play the mp3/mid format.
( to use the mp3/mid format ringtones )
( using the qcp format ringtones )
right-click/save
Assassins – Everybody’s Got the Right [mp3/mid] [qcp]
Wicked – What Is This Feeling [mp3/mid] [qcp]
Wicked – Popular [mp3/mid] [qcp]
Wicked – I’m Not That Girl [mp3/mid] [qcp]
Narnian colorbar
I made a Narnia colorbar
Narnia is Magical Love
made by speakingsoul
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrob teaser trailer caps
378 640×268 pixel caps from the first LWW teaser trailer. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author, and Chronicles of Narnia is, I consider, one of the top coolest things ever. I’m really looking forward to this movie, it looks great. if you’d like to watch the actual trailer, you can find it here.
teasers:
( samples, gallery, and zip this way )
Filed under Online | Comment (1)TV colorbars
1 Kim Possible, 1 Smallville
Kim Possible is Unstoppable Love
made by speakingsoul
Smallville is Love
made by speakingsoul
Movie Colorbars
1 Anastasia, 1 Romeo and Juliet
Anastasia and Dimitri are Love
made by speakingsoul
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespearean Love
made by speakingsoul
Cory/Topanga music video
Crush right-click/save
Song: Noise Ratchet – Crush
a Boy Meets World video featuring early Cory/Topanga
Rory/Logan music video
Nothing Better right-click/save
Song: The Postal Service – Nothing Better
a Rory/Logan video – the almost breaking up, but then ending up together video, thanks to last night’s episode.
Veronica Mars minibanners
banners in two different sizes
teasers:
( I LoVe Veronica Mars... )
Mini Banners
mini fan banners in two different sizes
teasers
( Smallville, Gilmore Girls, Anne and Gil, Desperate Housewives, Disney )
Filed under Online | Comment (1)Gilmore Girls – Life and Death Brigade – Dive In
This is an E.P. for The Life and Death Brigade
( In Omnia Paratus )
Filed under Online | Comments (6)The O.C. icons
icons from The Rainy Day Women episode of The O.C. These are snaggable. Please comment.
teasers:
( champagne supernova in the sky
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Kim Possible caps: 201 – Naked Genius
over 1200 caps!
teasers:
( sample caps, gallery link, and zip file this way )
Filed under Online | Comment (0)Wizard of Oz banner
( Someplace where there isn't any Trouble )
Filed under Online | Comment (1)The O.C. Icons
icons from some recent episodes. mostly S/S and some R/L. These are snaggable, please comment.
teasers:
ipod icons
6 ipod ad icons. These are snaggable. please comment.
teasers:
( hello, hello )
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