Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries for August, 2008

All a-twitter in the media

If you happen to pick up a copy of today’s Messenger-Inquirer, on the front page of the Venue section you will find a story about Twitter, complete with my ugly mug which also accompanies this blog post. I met on Tuesday with Beth Wilberding and Jenny Sevcik and spoke to them about Twitter, what it [...]

New beginnings

So, suPHP stopped working on my server, and I couldn’t upgrade WordPress there for a while. However, fear not, for I have seen the light and found a new way to update WordPress through Subversion, and I don’t know why I didn’t do that in the first place. suPHP still does not work; I have [...]

Elastic in nature

My lack of sleep over the past two days caught up with me today. I passed out for a good 12 hours or so and was finally up at about 4:15 this afternoon. It’s like embedding a basketball into a wall, attaching it to your head via bungee cord, and then walking away from the [...]

We can rebuild it. We have the technology

I finally became fed up with Apache responding with just the 200 OK header and nothing else when browsing my web sites. Earlier, I built and configured Apache 2.2.9, PHP 5.2.6, and suPHP 0.6.3 from source on this server, and after several hours of tweaking, configuring, and recompiling, I think I have things just about [...]

Interesting search terms

I (generally) monitor my site statistics with Google Analytics. I’m just curious to know how people get to my site and blog. My blog visits via search engine are going up, and just like Godwin’s Law, as you get more visits from search engines, the likelihood of seeing some very odd search terms approaches 1. [...]

Wal-Mart is so busy

A lot of people must have been paid today. The check lanes are loaded! American consumerism at work. I’m considering just writing quick little things just to stir my blog. Should I keep doing this?

Being broke sucks

I have $7.36 in my wallet, $4.56 in my checking account, and about $13 in my savings account, which I am not touching. I applied for a job in Louisville and I don’t even have the gas to get there. This is starting to suck. I did some work last week and I’ll get something [...]