attemptry.com

Just a quick update. I spent some time futzing around with attemptry over the last couple evenings.

• Upgraded to drupal 6.2
• Upgraded my modules: Google Analytics and PathAuto
• Added the Trackback module.
• Fooled around with rewrite rules to get http://attemptry.com to redirect to http://www.attemptry.com:
  

    # attemptry.com -> www.attemptry.com
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^attemptry\.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.attemptry.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
  

• Fooled around with rewrite rules to point my feed to feedburner:
  

    # feeds
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.attemptry\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner.*
    RewriteRule ^blogs/gerad/feed$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/gerad [L,R=temp]
  

• Got backspace to work correctly in emacs (but it still doesn't work right in less):
  

   tset -e ^H
  

• Switched to the $15 GoDaddy SSL Certificate I bought. No more SSL certificate warnings. Yay!
• Figured out the cause of slowness. Apache is spawning lots of processes that take up all my memory. I haven't figured out how to fix it yet.

I took a look at Wordpress, but shied away from installing it for some reason. Perhaps I'll get to it at a later time.

Not sure why I'm writing about all of this. Sometimes it's just good to put pen to paper though. I need to get started on more intelligent posts again. My next one is about not needing a co-founder. I'm also noodling on one about the secrets of life.

Gerad