It's kind of cool to have a safe 'sandbox' again: there's some work in development using Adobe Atmosphere (stay tuned) and some of the first code I've written in years... it's like the old days of the Net where you could just put stuff up without worrying about hacks, spambots, DDoS, worms and virii et al. I really wish I had more time to play...
Comments 9:06:37 PM    

So I can tell Radio to write all of the old pages out with the new template that includes the Reblogger perl comments server, but all of the old comments go away (actually they're already gone). I can alias magellan to my gulker.com hosting service, but I don't think my service provider offers Frontier hosting.

Another strategy might be to rent one of Comcast's 'persistent IPs' - Comcast won't assign public IP addresses for some strange reason known best only to behemoth cable monopolies. They give you an IP address, and then make you change it every 6 months... go figure. Anyway, I could put magellan in the firewall DMZ and forward requests to the comment server's port, which is 8080. But then I'll have to change DNS every 6 months... what a pain. I guess we'll do the full site re-write... maybe I can park archived comments somewhere...
Comments 5:55:33 PM    

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