In Which the Ringmaster Learns Enough to Become Dangerous

This morning, thanks to a quiet week at work, I sat down and learned how to set up a "cron job" on the server! A Cron job is a way to have the server automatically execute a script at a specified time. Why is that worth blogging about?

Because that should activate the TechBo AD server! Yup! I've got an ad server to embed in all the Techno Bohemia web pages!

"NO, sweet Ringmaster! Tell us you have not fallen to the dark side of commerce!"

Nope. Just shameless self-promotion. The only ads carried will be Techno Bohemia cross promotional ads! There are so many specialized sections of the site, the ads will allow me to promote videos in the music section and the whole site on the history site. I mean, if anyone wants to give me money, I'll run any ad they want, but I'm not expecting advertisers to bust down my door.

It will be an hour before I know if I entered the data correctly. Fingers crossed!

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In other news, I fixed my busted computer with a vaccum cleaner last night! I looked in the case with a flashlight and saw that the heatsink over the processor was caked with dust! The computer had been overheating and shutting down, so being the big bad tech guy I am, I popped the fan off, vaccumed the heatsink out, and boom, it's fixed. I wish I'd looked at it in April when it first started shutting off. duh.

Anyhoo, not having to worry about it shutting off will allow me to make graphics for the site once again and probably tinker with lots of new features that I've been putting off. It's amazing what a comfy chair can accomplish!