When ICANN announced that the top-level domains available would finally get past the old .com, .net, .edu, .org (plus the national domain names like .ca, .uk, .cn, etc.) it seemed like it could be such a cool thing. I mean, first, it can be terribly hard to find a domain name anymore. In so many cases,...
Panic Status Board is dead… Long live Castor! In July of 2013, I wrote my first blog entry on this site. It was about a Panic Status Board compatible CSV file script for Postfix mail queues, something I wanted to have to be able to track my mail servers. I could watch them while Status Board ran...
I’ve decided to join the 21st Century and move busymind.net to a virtual server in the cloud. Specifically, after a bunch of experimentation, I chose Digital Ocean and set up an Ubuntu 12.04 and moved the site on Saturday. I found it relatively painless, the server creation only took a minute, then about an hour...
For the last few years, I’ve been gradually looking for ‘that’ domain. A replacement for the old ‘voxmagis.com’, which was set up as an inside joke for a World of Warcraft guild, not as a permanent website/email server. Vox Magis, which ROUGHLY translates to ‘Cry More’ in Latin, was fine, but hard for people to...
