Don’t forget to be careful of what you write in your blogs, myspaces, etc Express your opinion and interests, but be careful not to give away enough information that criminals can use it against you. Don’t talk about vacations ahead of time or what time you get off work normally and other such things. It’s hard and I’m sure I’ve made a mistake or two, but keep it in the back of your mind and the your time on the Internet will be much more pleasant.

After months of neglect, I’ve completely redone my homepage. Check it out at http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com

I don’t know wtf is going on with Google, but according to my web stats, 66 of you came here looking for info on anime conventions (this month alone). I’ve never talked much about them except to put up a picture of someone from an anime convention. It was this one or two:

Apparently there aren’t too many other blogs/sites out there talking about it or I wouldn’t get so many people coming here looking for it. The above pictures are probably responsible for the 32 people coming here looking for cosplay. (The second top search term) Another one that brought about 20 people here is the Order of the Engineer, which I blogged about the day I got it. Since then I haven’t mentioned it until today.

Today I was looking back through my original blog, It’s A Binary World (now 1.0), and it was interesting to see what I was writing about. I found some really fun posts. Here are links to the posts and some highlights.

When I started up this server and blog(of course it was on an old Fedora Core 1 machine back then):

Why does technology excite me so? I think because my knowledge of technology frees me from the slavery of others. I can run my own server with as much space as I want on it. I can post any content I want (as long as the goverment doesn’t shut me down q;o) and I can be free of paying for software that doesn’t work right out of the box -> by switching to Open Source alternative. Also…I’m a bit of a geek. q;o)

Sorry about yesterday. Apparently my dynamic DNS hostname decided not to be dynamic. So, after about 30-40 minutes of checking and rebooting my machine (which had 65 days of uptime! - I think a power outage occurred two weeks ago), I realized the problem. If you can read this, it has propagated to your DNS server.

If you click on any of the blog posts you will see two new things - related posts and links to tag my blog in digg, redit, etc.

I will be working on getting it showing on the main page too, but it’s not a big priority for me right now.

Had a small outage last night after I switched to a new router. Took some time for the DNS tables to catch up.

So lycos died today and they provide the name servers for my blog. So my server, all tripod, and all angelfire pages were inaccessible today. Didn’t see anything about it off their home page, but the roughly 6 hour outage was annoying as heck!

Glad to be back!

Well, after fixing it up the first time to deal with the fact that I had uploaded my videos to Vimeo, I found that the site looked a bit clunky. So I revamped the opening page and fixed up some of the organization of the content pages as well. In some cases I deleted references to obsolete things (such as 56k modem download times) and in others I added information about the Creative Commons. I also added a “legal” page where I discuss the Creative Commons and some of the legal implications of remixing my clips.

Now that I have begun uploading my videos to Vimeo (and intend to digitize my portfolio) I have revamped my video production site to be much better organized. I will be adding new content in the next few months. A lot of it will be in my “Early Work” category as I upload videos I created during my High School years. If you haven’t seen any of my work, give it a shot. There’s stuff in every category from silly to serious!