from the desk of stinkpot

you might have noticed that a bunch of links around here no longer point to stinkpot.afraid.org … they point to desk.stinkpot.org.  i’ve finally bought a domain name: stinkpot.org. i finally gave into buying it when the free service [freedns] supplying my domain went down last week.   some idiot(s) decided it would be a good idea to DDOS freedns’ DNS servers to death.  it makes no sense, since those servers weren’t being run for profit; what could the guy controlling the botnet possibly want?

in any case, i picked up a domain so that i would no longer be at the mercy of a domain supplier.  www.stinkpot.org and stinkpot.org now point to my site.

(of course, i still had the problem of setting up a dynamic dns, since my server lives here in our apartment.  and, you guessed it, i still use freedns to do the dynamic dns.  no other free service makes dynamic dns as easy.  so no, i still haven’t really solved my reliability problem.  but, at least i don’t have to give out a long-winded stinkpot.afraid.org:8080 whenever someone asks for my website address.)

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ok, gotta run – we’re playing hookie today to go camping in rhode island!  we shoulda left much earlier, but we stayed up late last night catching the first showing of snakes on a plane.  (well worth the money.)  it was the first movie i’ve seen in a theatre in a year … and due to the crowd, probably the most entertaining movie i’ve ever watched.

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