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I recently brought my Hivewiki project back online. It is my own .NET based wiki farm. While Confluence is cool software, I can't afford the $10 a year, and 756MB of ram required per decent sized wiki instance (for example Bobsgear), multipled by all 300 of my domains. Even if most ran in the default of just 256MB of ram, that is still about 100GB of ram, requiring me to probably have at least 5 or 6 decent sized servers. I don't think so.... Maybe using something like Resin, or something other than standalone version would help, I don't know.

My own wiki farm software was designed to let me manage a lot of domains, and subdomained based, wikis out of a single installation and configuration.

I had no idea that it has picked up so many wiki sites before the server went offline. List of hivewiki sites on 2010-03-14. I no longer own some of the domains, but I will be looking to bring as many of these back online as possible. Stay tuned.

Some of my more interesting sites I built in the HiveWiki are:

• The Literature Evangelist - Learn about literature evangelism
• Natures Health - All about natural health, especially using foods and medicinal plants
• Sleep11 - The sleep wiki, goes with my classic My Sleep Center site all about how to get a good night's sleep
• Art Bell Radio Show Wiki

Another site, not part of the HiveWiki, but still interesting, is an introduction to working as a literature evangelist: http://intro.theliteratureevangelist.com/

I was walking into Wells Fargo, and I thought I saw a sign about "Banking without walls".

I thought to myself, "hmmmm, that doesn't seem very secure. How would they keep the money inside?"

I looked around at all the signs, but I couldn't find one with that phrase on it.

There was a skill testing labyrinth on the way to the tellers. I asked the tellers if that was one of their slogans, and none of them thought it was. None of them seemed to realize the irony in the phrase.

• More about Banking without walls

Also heard today: Bill Maher on the Popes Funeral

If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Sarah Palin" in the subject line, do not open it. It might contain a virus.

If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton," do not open it. It might contain nude photos of Hillary Clinton.

Comments:

• LMAO! I'd rather get the virus...
• Bill Clinton: "I feel your pain .............. and hope not to get the Hillary email too".
• Here is the link to the virus removal tool.... Note that it does not fix the problem of getting Hillary Clinton's nude photos....
• thanks stocks...i was kind of thinking of downloading and framing the portrait of our ex-First Lady in color and in full length glory (hopefully wearing natural furs).
  • Would that turn you to salt or strike you blind, jb?

The other day I was tracking my diet for a couple of days, and discovered some big deficits of certain vitamins.

A friend of mine is a wellness doctor. I asked him for his opinion on vitamin supplements. Does he think vitamin supplements are useful, or are they a bunch of hype?

He said he feels they are very useful. The vitamins we have the most problem not getting enough of are:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin C

I asked him what he thinks about the U.S. RDA numbers for vitamins. I've heard that they are set just above the minimum to keep you from getting diseases like scurvy, but not high enough to give real health. He agreed.

What about vitamin B-12? My doctor friend said that is very important for vegetarians and vegans to supplement.

I told him I had some trouble finding a vitamin supplement without extra iron. He asked if I cook with an iron skillet. Cooking with an iron skillet is a great way to end up with extra iron in the diet!

He takes 1000 mg. a day of Vitamin C, 1000 mg. of vitamin D. He said we have a problem with having enough vitamin D because we don't get enough sunlight.

My doctor friend said he had learned about the importance of vitamin supplements from watching a friend of ours, Dr. Merton Shelton who lived into his 90's and was a big believer in taking vitamin supplements.

Related pages:

• Problems with vitamins

Hmmm... Almost a year since my last blog posting in this space. That's the problem with having too many places to post things at.....

What have I been doing in the last year?

• Learning how to make beads and glasswork, lampworking, and when they don't turn out right, melting them down into marbles!
• Doing further development on the Hivewiki software. It's now running on another server also, with a more up to do date version, Webmill.us.
• Reading books:
  • Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich - Working on cliff notes and a wiki version of it
  • Journey Round My Skull - Story of survivor of one of the earliest open brain surgeries
  • Do Cats Think? - Delightful book that answers "Of course they do!"
  • Health Power - Health By Choice, Not Chance

Think I've finished some others recently too, have to come back here and update the list.

In a search on Amazon using AWS or the Amazon website itself, for

    web site content

Link #13 is:

The Longing (2003) Plot Synopsis: Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and their friendship with each other. Plot Keywords: Male Frontal Nud?ty | Homos??ual | Murder | Nud??y | Redemption | S?x | G?y | G?y Interest | G?y S?x | Cybers?x | Search For Parent | S?x On The Beach

What in the blazes does this have to do with website content? How did this happen?

I am very disgusted that AWS would return such an obviously out of place piece of garbage in the middle of a site about web design! What do I need to do to filter such trash out of the results I am getting from Amazon? I am trying to run sites that are family and child friendly, not sites that push this kind of stuff in people's faces when they aren't looking for it.

Even more stupid, this garbage outranks Net nanny. Here is the AWS descriptions in order for this search:

The Longing Jürgen Brüning $19.99(USD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ready for an admittedly tawdry but s?xy melodramatic romp through sun-drenched Brazil with two h0t men? Does Saved by the Bell s A.C. and Zack locking l??? and l???? on a white-sanded beach turn you on? (Editor's note: Yes I obscured a couple of words. The actual description is about twice as long and much more graphic.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Nanny 5 Web Site Filtering Blocks Adult Content $39.95(USD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filters allow you to block objectionable material on the Web, while enabling access to everything else. For parents, this means you can reliably manage what Web sites your children see. Kids need to be able to access much of the Web for its informational, educational and entertainment content. However, a lot of sites out there are inappropriate and potentially damaging for children, featuring illicit content or promoting hate and violence. Get a monthly updated block list of inappropriate Web sites. Know exactly what your kids can and cannot see. Fully view and edit block lists. Create a "whitelist" of certain Web sites so that only those sites, and no others, may be visited or viewed. Create keyword lists to filter out inappropriate, vulgar or sexual terms on Web pages, in chat rooms and in emails. Use pop-up blockers to keep your screen from filling up with advertisements from adult sites and other over-zealous advertisers.

Maybe someone has an idea how I can run AWS search results through Net Nanny to keep my sites from displaying this trash and getting banned.....