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New Year Randomness
A few things for the new year:
- Congratulations to those in New Hampshire for being another state allowing gay marriage. It’s a crime that it’s not globally recognized, but we’ll get there eventually. I guess I wrongfully assumed that the phrase “…all men are created equal.” in the Declaration of Independence actually applied to ALL men.
- I was bad during the holidays and ran very very little, however I was able to at least maintain my weight, which is as good as one can hope for.
- I have removed the CAPTCHA from my site. Apparently my WordPress upgrade last week broke that plugin.
- I am fixing the RSS feeds as they apparently haven’t been updating since about July. Oops!
Have a great new year and I’ll post again soon – hopefully later this week.
Server went for a lie-down
Well, it looks like sometime either late Wednesday or early Thursday the server that my sites are hosted on wanted a rest, so it took one. The RAID array that it’s located on had major issues and failed to rebuild twice which prompted my host to replace hardware. They ended up building a new server and are currently in-process of restoring the data from last week’s full backup. After the restore is complete they’re going to try to restore from the broken RAID but that’s almost definitely going to not work. However, as this is a blog and I don’t update it often, all the data is stored in a database on a different server completely.
Anywho, all my sites are currently running on a backup copy of the data until the full data is restored, which should be sometime Sunday or earlier.
New Theme
Once again, KeithMcD.com has changed themes. This time, I’ve decided to change to a theme that’s easier to read, not as chaotic and is more professional.
Previous Site Layout
To the left is a screenshot of the previous KeithMcD.com layout. I’ve decided that I’m going to start taking a screenshot of previous layouts to be able to see how the site progresses over time.
Enjoy the new theme and let me know of any issues/concerns here!
Editorial Content
As it stands, KeithMcD.com is quite the boring little spot on the Interwebs. As much as I like my current setup, I think that I may soon shift my thinking for this site.
I’ve got a few web programming projects that I’ve been putting off that will now take center stage in my personal time. Once those are complete, I’m going to try my hand at creating content for this site that has some actual depth and content, rather than the rare post that is more a rant than anything else (although those will still remain).
Also, despite my love of my tagline “None of the content, all of the hype”, which I came up with when I first started this site years ago, I may look at changing it to something more in-line with where I want the future of this site to go instead of where it has been in the past.
Thanks and look for more information soon!
Quick post:
Steve Dahl, the radio legend, has been twittering for some time. About 20 minutes ago, he started following me on twitter! I know, it’s nothing big, but considering that he’s got 25,000 followers and less than 1,000 followees, I feel pretty good about that. 
Go steve and it’s great to still get the comedy despite not being able to hear it on the air.
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Recent Tweets
- I bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 Top apps worth $260+ for only $20 and got 3 great bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it
- ran 7.03 mi on 3/9/2010 at 5:34 PM with a pace of 8'44"/mi http://go.nike.com/1dd3g41
- ran 6.01 mi on 3/7/2010 at 3:13 PM with a pace of 8'43"/mi http://go.nike.com/3c5f73i
- Finally added a new post on my site. Go read it. http://keithmcd.com/2010/03/06/purdue-5k