I have been looking for a service to monitor my website for hacking for a while... my previous searches did not turn up anything... today I finally tried again and found this service http://binarycanary.com that will monitor five different websites/URLs for $60 per year.  It works by opening up each of your websites every minute and checking to see if certain things have changed.  I will check out the service and report back.

Just testing out a plug-in for my WordPress blog that automatically finds appropriate pictures on Flickr and inserts them into my blog posts. Let's try it out by trying to find a photo of the San Juan Islands: photo credit: riNux And now let's try to find one of the Americas cup... photo credit: EverJean... couldn't find anything on the America's Cup. Let's try something else. How about surfing in Bali... photo credit: Marc oh!that worked okay... how about Kodiak Alaska. photo credit: timpeartriceseems to be worthwhile.

I just started using a service called "steady offload" which claims to speed up your websites by offloading pictures, CSS files, Java script files, to their servers. They have a WordPress plug-in that handles everything for you. Everything worked fine yesterday however when I try to post a new blog post today the photos in the new post are not showing up... as you can see from the below screenshot I just have little red x's where the images should be. This might have something to do with the fact that I am testing out a client-side blogging tool called "RocketPost." More details when I figure out what the hell is going on.

While registering for an account at this website… http://www.behance.net/Sign_Up?sent=yes I went through the little tour they have and was impressed by how much content they fit in to a small blue “Take Tour” button. It’s nice that the whole tour is loaded without having to change pages. Everything seems responsive and “light”. […]

I just googled for “how to delete .old folders on dreamhost” no decent results.  So I tried to search for “how to delete folders that are not empty ftp which gave me some older results from 2005 to 2007 suggested that I install “Putty” and give my FTP username shell access from the control panel. […]