Well I got an email tonight that the server was down, checked my phone to see if I somehow magically missed a page, report was okay, so I tried to login to the server, worked, hit the two sites the customer had issue with, worked. The issue? SMF 1.1.1 - it posts a phpsessid to the URL and thus triggers mod_security, well recent tweaks to the intrusion system I flagged a configuration option which reads the mod_security log, and blocks on its fails. Thus the customer’s IP was banned via the firewall.
I think I may be getting overly exhausted, I do that now and again in the middle of big projects and various things looming, I really need to take a photo day, heck maybe even a nap day to follow that 
but something is definitely not quite right, found myself today around 12:30 just dead tired, I took a nap till 2:30, then woke up, made some calls, helped Sam over at Fluxar get some PHP magic happening, then hung out a bit doing laundry, and I was exhausted again, laid down and woke up at 10pm - so just tired tired tired, going to try crashing out here again in a minute.
Got another project today, meeting a Photographer on Thursday @ Starbucks to go over some plans for her website, already jotted some notes from our call, and our previous talk at the wedding, but I think it should be fun, I have a server migration to plan, and I imagine in a day or so once all options are exhausted I’ll be getting a call from a site to look at an issue they are having, which leads me to spare cash.
Granted now I have some bills to pay, the big server setup a few months ago wasn’t what I’d call “cheap”, and some other expenses came up, so I have bills to pay, but I have been wanting to pickup a 80GB iPod 5G as well as a 35mm lens for the E-500, so I have both items sitting in my cart @ Newegg, just trying to hold off if possible, I know I could live without the new iPod, however I’d love to pickup the E-510 body (not the kit) and the 35mm lens, expensive, but it’d give me two 4/3 compatible camera bodies, 3 lenses - aka - lovely. With a wedding or two this fall season I’d love to get some time behind the lens and the E-510 before, but Newegg only has the E-510 kit, granted it comes with one lens I don’t have, but if I got that, I couldn’t get the 35mm also.
Anywhoo… I feel sleepy, so I am going to try sleep again, hopefully it comes, and hopefully the night is mellow. Night folks, prayers appreciated for my health, and if anyone feels overly generous to donate a 80GB iPod, E-510, 35mm lens, or even just some cash, let me know 
So I got bored… was looking over stats… here’s what I came up with:
What a day what a day. It started at 6am, and progressed, got some research done on some Credit Card processing matters (no real progress, but new info), went for a MySpace advertising pow-wow, watched 3 kiddos, then came home to deal with a customer who got not 1, not 2, not 20, but 6459 pieces of spam in one day - ouch, then followed that up by going to the store for food.
Needless to say, I am tired! But I did get a odd email stating I sold a t-shirt. See long long ago, I took and made some t-shirt designs over at cafepress.com in which I only had 2-3 sales - but today I sold one. One of the #cmcentral shirts to a lady in CA - crazy stuff, but in the time since I started it I have sold a shirt or two, and with CMC stuff I sold a CMC bear or two to the site’s owner for his use at GMA week - but just odd out of no-where I sell a WOMBAT shirt.
I am slowly passing out here, so I am not going to drag this on, but tomorrow is a new day, and I need sleep - have a wonderful Friday folks.
59 MySpace spams/friend requests for porn sites later, the flow has slowed/stopped - sometimes I just want to remove my profile and think happy thoughts.
Posted on 22 April '07 by Chuck Brown, under you hurt my brain. 1 Comment.
Well after crazy weeks of servers, taxes, drama, deconstruction, reconstruction, and a hiatus from WoW (I’m surviving) - I finally as of last night, just passed out. I did it again today, had a day planned, and suddenly I was tired beyond anything, laid down again, and was out till about 5pm, nice to finally relax a bit, and I really have been trying to, thus why I had my little project this evening which let me put Linux on my old Tungsten T3, its not “ultra useful” but it works I suppose, charging up the battery right now so I can play a bit on the couch.
Tomorrow (granting I can stay awake) I plan to get started on cleaning my mess again room - its half done really, I do have the couch in here now, and with the TV Tuner I just snagged from Woot.com, I hope to have it all setup and where I can enjoy TV in my room from the Media rig, get to see if Windows Vista’s Media Center is any good - so hopefully so, I was excited to not pay $105 to get a tuner, but rather $35 - it looks like it could do good, but time will tell, if nothing else, a nice thing to hold me over a while.
I enjoyed the first disc of the first Season of Doctor Who (newest series) and enjoyed it very much, I have the entire first season in my queue on Blockbuster.com - so it should slowly come to me this week a bit, have a stack of Charity DVD’s to take back, she went with me to trade in my DVD coupons for her movies - but I have 3 onlines so I can trade out tomorrow I’d imagine… just need more popcorn.
Some things coming up, for instance the widget on the side, Heroes returns next week, a wedding next weekend, so pretty pumped up, the wedding should be fun, going to of course take in my camera, probably txt the bride this week and see if she wanted me there in any official capacity (if so a good excuse for a 4/8GB card) but either way, a wedding I am looking forward to, feeling so crazy, might even go buy a pair of pants (i know i know… be still your hearts)
Anywhoo - off to a evening of wild and crazy sleep (or at least loafin to some movies) Night All!
And I kind of liked it
I crashed out finally around 10am, a good time for a nap if I do say so myself, got a few hours in and woke up a bit ago to a phone call from again, being clever SeanVT about de-admin’ing my account on CMC - which is usually done after I complete an upgrade of software, but he didn’t want me to think he as angry/upset/against me - gave him some of my own feedback on the situation & noted a post or two - but I think the site needs to do something I suggested long ago, but I guess it seems cool to have a person with the title - oh well, life goes on, I’ve put in my two bits, what’s done is done.
Taxes are e-File’d - I thought about it, knew I’d be tired today and just hit “File” and off it went, so I am waiting for ‘confirmation’ that it was received, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t be - so another thing off the todo list on the wiki, it is looking a lot clearer - actually have things in the completed sections on both sides - so pretty jazzed to have that monkey off my back, and now another one just crawls on up - namely my Uncle’s computer - it’s done, finished it around 645am and it runs smooth, AMD 2500+ with 1GB of ram and a 80GB drive with XP SP2b - probably in the next hour or so swing it by with a 17inch CRT I have lying around I don’t use anymore.
So the week has begun! One day down (more or less) onto the next one!
What a whirl-wind week. A few servers jumps coming, doing some nameserver re-arranging, syncing, etc. should help normalize all clients, plus a fresh batch of IP’s to help get some folks out of blocked lists on hotmail etc. but this week may continue on and on and on and on and on it seems - but I think all things said and done, it’s getting better each hour, heck maybe as far to say every minute.
Tonight was a little crazy, helped the kMan at the office, worked on getting a few installs going, let him actually crash in his chair for about 20-30 minutes, then he said “Time to go home Chuckles” - which is a funny thing lately, folks have all sorts of nicknames for me, my brother’s is probably my favorite “Chuckles the Destroyer” lol - not sure why, or how he came up with it, but its just plain awesome.
Some possible good news, a job. Not a contract gig, but a real life job, making a salary a month, which while could keep me busy, also allows me to re-vamp their system, and really balance out my work with their work, and gives me a nice steady pay-check - so prayerfully that happens, because it would help on another for-sure good news, got a invite to the land down under and my friend said she’d go with me, heck by the end of the day the office was all “let’s all go!” so Jon, we may need a few tents for the lawn lol - but seriously I am definitely looking at that, because it would be neat to actually leave this continent and also take pictures on another chunk of land.
What else, trying to empty my brain here so when I lay my head down, its a tad more empty, had a talk with the kMan about random things, nothing serious, just chit-chat of his obersations of me, kind of interesting, but as usual he’s supportive of me, heck he said “lets get the pizza and go” at dinner when my server alert came in and said “DOWN” so he’s a good friend, always has been - and I do what I can to give back, thus I was helping with his backlog of PC’s even though I am a mostly mac user these days, I still know my way around a PC and was able to work/diagnose/repair work on a few, some we had issues which are calls in the AM but all in all a lot done I think.
Well, today when I wake up, i think I am going to head out first (granting its not noon) and get some shots, and have a bit of a photo Friday, I am thinking of actually doing city scape’s vs. wide open spaces, granted got a AWESOME moon tonight, and possibly clear tomorrow, might be fun to wander the crazy city I live in for some inspiration and camera hijinxs - so maybe simple and in-town, but the day will tell, plus I have a SBC aka AT&T rep coming tomorrow between 8am-5pm - so I am going to need to stop in now and again, but hopefully that fixes the line up, a lunch with Courtney and Jake, since me and Courtney keep giving Jake a hard time about lunch breaks, he gave in, tomorrow were eating at the Antique Mall then exploring the top floor or the lower level, not sure yet
Speaking of Courtney before I forget, keep her in your prayers, her fibromyalgia was acting up, bad headache and such, so she could use your prayers, office has been a tad bit of a mad-house with her boss out on a big job, she’s sort of been thrown into power, but still not knowing the boss man’s set of rules/how-to’s and secret handshake - so with the computers backing up on the bench she had some mildly irritated folks, but hopefully my help tonight will lessen some of those calls and have lots of happy people in the AM.
Anywhoo - thats all I got, server just blinked again, but came back (during which time the server was still active) so I am calling it a night, hoping tomorrow will bring photos, servers, fun, and of course with a Friday, a end to a week and a start of some easy going relaxin.
Night folks.
