A Cajun-Asian View

A graph of the number of hits I got in the last week after getting linked by Shamus from Twenty Sided.

It seemed Go Daddy was having some DNS problems earlier, which prevented any of my sites from resolving correctly. It also affected a few friend's sites that I know are hosted on Go Daddy for some time. In any case, I logged into the Go Daddy site and checked up on my domains. When I reset the hosted nameservers, it seemed to have changed to new servers. Waited an hour or so, and my sites are back up again.

Sigh, I should just host my own DNS. And since most of my sites are on the same server, if the DNS went down, all of my sites are most likely down too. I'll just have to find a way to setup a secondary DNS server somewhere (Heck, that would also provide a convenient backup mail server that I've been needing too).

UPDATE: Ah, this looked like was the cause: GoDaddy whacked by DDoS attack

I've complained in the past that the web-links package wasn't available yet in Drupal 5.1; well, as of February 16, 2007, a web-links module was released for Drupal 5.1. I have just replaced my hand-made version of the Blog Rolls with this one. One of my biggest annoyance about the latest version of Drupal has been relieved! Yay!

Also, I'm testing out the Coolfilter module. Let's see how well it works...

More bitching! Yay!

This time, its about the lack of a web-links package that can create blocks for Drupal 5! Ok, so this not a problem with Drupal at all; I'm just annoyed.

Well, I've simply created a couple of blocks containing the links I want to add in an unordered list. Later on, I might see if I can use the API from the Links Package to organize links.

Well, I got the basics of a personal site up right now. I wished to splinter off my anime weblog from the rest of the topics I might talk about. If you wished to access my anime weblog, please change your links to http://anime.nickistre.net instead.

Thanks,
Nick