Sunday, January 01, 2012
I had a busy day, yesterday. Started early in the morning. I got up around 6:00 a.m. and went to bed after 10:00 p.m.-- working and thinking almost every minute of the day. By the time I went to bed-- I felt I had been dragged through an obstacle course.
- Developed a Zillow interface and posted about it.
- Macbook monitor came to life for about 30 minutes-- so researched more into this problem. Based on the research [InsomniaX usage], removed an application [SystemEvents] from my login process. This note-- in case this allowed external observers a means to access my system.
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Found problems with several interfaces [either removed or looking
for a work around]:
- Trulia
- Dictionary
- iTunes Search
- iTunes Top Ten
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Updated Sites
- QiSoftware Main-- 5 pages.
- Products Catalog-- 13 pages.
- WiredPages-- 16 pages.
- Hosting-Q-- 6 pages.
- Remix Business Blog-- all pages and posts, automated through Thingamablog custom tags.
- It's Personal Blog [this blog]-- all pages and posts, automated through Thingamablog custom tags.
- Backed up both sites [qisoftware.com, hosting-q.com]. QiSoftware.com's site about 500,000,000 bytes zipped-- and that's with the www directory [main directory] also zipped within the gz file. Hosting-q.com about- 50,000 with the main directory zipped within the gz file.
Quite frankly the problems I found yesterday, with existing interfaces caught me a little off guard-- however for whatever reason did not anger me.
I spent most of the late afternoon researching the cause of the problems. In the case of iTunes, I sent an email to the affiliate manager through LinkShare. In all cases-- access is being blocked to the hosting-q.com hosted interfaces. In most cases, moving the interface to qisoftware.com would solve the problem, however not an option I will use. I am hoping new procedures have been put in place [new year?] and the providers of the data-- think the access is through the wrong door because I signed up via WiredPages [qisoftware.com sub-domain] but use an interface hosted on hosting-q.com.
The email I sent to the iTunes manager basically explains this-- and also provides hosting-q.com is a channel under my Linkshare account-- so it should be easy to confirm what I am saying.
I wasn't demoralized. I went to bed-- knowing I had worked hard and this morning I got up and took a ride around the area. I went by Arundel Mills to check the progress of the new casino. I went by Dunkin Donuts and didn't stop. It was quiet and just the way I like it on Sunday mornings. Me, my thoughts-- the early morning road, mostly all mine.
When I used to travel the Washington area's daily gridlock, one of my favorite things to do was get up first thing Sunday mornings and ride around Washington. The Capitol, the monuments, etc. Washington is beautiful first thing Sunday morning without the people and traffic...
I am going to have a good year. None of my problems are insurmountable. I would rather have me- searching for solutions than anyone else. FBI-- I am going to need you-- to insure others hear no. I said no.
