Hi all! Hope you’ve been doing ok. It’s been a while since I posted anything and it may be an even longer period before I do so again but this one has to do with my decision to convert. Heh, not to a specific religion or even back to Windoze (shudder). No, nothing like that.

I’ve decided with this latest round of exploits with Wordpress that it would be a good idea to convert everything here into a static format for better safe-keeping. It’s not like this site ever got Dugg or anything but from my stats, I do see that there is still a lot of traffic to some articles and that leads me to believe that they still have some worth to them still. So, in place of running constant backups of databases plus content and the XML file, all I will need to run is one backup for content. Much simpler.

So, in the near future, this site will be converted from a Wordpress powered one to a static HTML version. The domain will remain the same. Same thing with most all of the categories and links. The major change will come in the way the information is presented. No more comment forms, no RSS feed (might install one later) no real time interactivity so to speak (sorry spammers )….just good ‘ol HTML that you can bookmark and link to if you need or want to.

The format will be easy enough to follow. By clicking a category, you’ll be presented with a page listing what all is available to view in that category. I might code in a drop-down menu later on but for now, I’m following the KISS principle.

Anyway, that’s about it. You take care now and keep the faith!

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Life is a funny ride sometimes. It takes you to highs you never imagined and some lows you wish you could forget. Either you hang on with all your might or you get left behind in the dust.

As many of you know, things are tough all over the world right now with this damn economy messing with us left and right. People are out of work and losing their homes…their families are out on the streets with no place to go, nothing to eat. It breaks the heart of anyone passing by or hearing of yet another family’s plight. The experience is both unimaginable and one of life’s most horrible lessons of us trusting the government entirely too much.

This blog has ever been all that popular. I had no illusions that it would as it was just a place for me to write about my experiences with Linux, web hosting, applications and several more topics. I learned a lot during this time and most of it was from others who shared their knowledge with me. To those of you that did, my undying gratitude.

I won’t be writing anymore posts for the Mystic Bird due in part to my attention now is being more focused on other interests such as family, health and enjoying life as much as one can for as long as one can. Purely selfish reasons quite obviously but for another reason as well.

I’ve decided that it’s high time to pay it forward so to speak for all the favors, sharing and what not that others have bestowed upon me all these years. My time is now to return the favor.

I’m going to be working with my wife’s school to help educate the kids with things like computers, GNU/Linux, websites, etc. The point is to show them that there is something else out there besides drugs, gangs, crime and fast money. That last one may be a hard one to beat down but all one can do is try, right?

So, the site will remain for as long as I can keep it updated and some can find a use for it. Other than that, it’ll stay pretty much stagnant unless someone feels the urge to jump in and run with some articles for it.

Again, thanks for the sharing, the good times and best of luck in life to you!

Sounds pretty damning doesn’t it? Well, read on and see why Linux is showing itself as more secure than Windows like never before. This story takes place at a local company with no malicious activity occurring.

Several employees play Fantasy Sports at work. No big deal really. Lot’s of folks do and it can be fun…especially if you’re winning, right? Well, seeing as some only have the opportunity to check scores and such from work for a variety of reasons, the office computer is the one that gets the use.

Said computer runs the nefarious Windows XP Professional operating system with Symantec getting the nod from the company’s IT department for security duties. The system is up to date and has had no known issues affecting it to my knowledge.

Around 3:30am CDT this morning, I was called on the radio to visit the office. After doing so, I was asked to have a look at the computer screen and see if I had a clue as to what might be happening. One look was all it took as the popups were many. I asked what happened and was told that during a visit to Yahoo Sports, the machine began to act strangely with screen freezes, kicking him off the site, and then an onslaught of some strange anti-virus program trying to get him to click several different pop-ups to download an updated database, activate a new anti-virus program, etc. more…

Seeing as FaceBook has just bought out FriendFeed and I have no real love for FB, I feel a privacy issue forthcoming and a new Micro$oft emerging. FB has had their own issues with privacy lately so this is an expected reality for FF in the very near future.

Since FB has issues with most all of the social networking sites out there and instead of just trying to improve their own lot, they instead decided to buy out the competition. FF is the first. Who’s to say who may be next…Twitter? Either way, I’m sticking with Twitter only for now and have deleted my FB and FF accounts. Not that I used FB too terribly much, mind you but I just don’t feel all that warm and fuzzy about them having FF under their control now.

Another one that fell by the wayside is MyBlogLog who was scooped up by Yahoo a short while back. We all know who has Yahoo by the short hairs now too, right? Anyone seeing the pattern here? Guess if ya can’t beat ‘em, just buy them out and assimilate their technology as your own.

Hmm, wonder where Jon Luc Picard is with the Enterprise when you need him? The Borg are running rampant on the internet lately!

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