Howard Greenstein: Random ThoughtA juicy tidbit of randomness from Howardgr.(Untitled)- March 20, 2003 My new hosting provider, ipowerweb.net, has helped me through some startup issues. The tech support on the phone was quite good. Only compliant was that one of their web-based help forms didn't work - when filled out it went to a '404' page. But they took that info on the phone and hopefully will fix it. Good deal so far.http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/20.html#a284 War starts- March 20, 2003 Watching ABC on TV, where Ari Flisher announced that the President will make an annoucement at 10:15 EST. ABC is showing a fixed camera shot of Baghdad, with the sky lightening over minnerets. You can hear occasional explosions and bangs in the background. The full quote: "The opening stages of the disarmament of the Iraqi regime have begun." (thanks CNN)http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/19.html#a283 (Untitled)- March 20, 2003 What if someone took everything on my website and replaced it with an exact duplicate (munged from Stephen Wright) Welcome to my new hosting provider. The last one had one too many outages, and I've upped and moved everything to here. Still some uploading issues, but I'm sure we'll get past those soon. Really, I mean it.http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/19.html#a282 (Untitled)- March 15, 2003 B8 d++ t+ k s- u f i o x-- e l c http:travis.kroh.netarchivesblogger_decoder.html will decode it, and then you'll know my innermost secrets :-) I guess I do follow some of the net Memes. Whatever.http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/15.html#a281 Digital Identity Loss- March 12, 2003 Update: 5:00pm - Problem Solved. Cool. But still a mystery as to why it happened. Today, at about 1:42pm Eastern Time, I lost my oldest digital identity. My AOL IM account was suspended. Looking for more information got me to a page that told me either I violated terms of service, or that I have to verify my age in some way. I try to follow the links, which get me to some other pages that force me to log into Netscape.Net's home page. Netscape.net doesn't seem to have an issue with my ID.http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/12.html (Untitled)- March 11, 2003 CNN: House leaders change the names of "French Fries" and "French Toast" to "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom Toast". In a related statement, kids at George H.W. Bush High School in Amarillo, Texas, declared that they would no longer be caught "French Kissing" between classes. "Freedom kissing is much cooler!" declared sophomore Jane Lewis. Salad Bar owner Joe Fisher, of Houston, said he would no longer serve "French Dressing," rather, he would serve "Russian Dressing without relish."..http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/11.html#a279 Free Speech Outage- March 4, 2003 Yesterday this Weblog was off the net. Not many people noticed, but I did. So was my email. It seems the hosting provider I used was under a denial of service attack. In other words, some little reckless "cyber terrorist" was using one or more PCs or servers to hit my ISP in such a way that their servers, or firewall, or network equipment literally could not keep up. The service went down and was unusable for 6 hours or more.I don't just look at this as a denial of "service." Email and...http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/2003/03/04.html |