Testing the photoblog on the new hosting.

I’m no longer on 1and1. There was just too much I wanted to do that couldn’t be done there. I got myself a reseller account at Servercove, so now I have plenty of space and bandwidth and can host many domains. I’ve read mixed reviews of them, but figured I’d give it a try and see how it goes. I can always cancel if I don’t like it. I’ve already contacted support twice, and gotten quick and satisfactory responses.

One thing I can do here that I couldn’t at 1and1 is set up my e-mail the way I want to. When I moved the website to 1and1, I left my e-mail at my old host. Hopefully, I’ll cancel that hosting soon, and get both of my brothers to move their sites here and cancel theirs, too. I’m going to wait a month or so on that, to make sure this hosting holds up for me.

I finally got sick of playing microlimit at PokerStars, so I deposited $100 back at UB. The whole “break from poker” thing didn’t last very long. Today, I played in four $10+1 sit and gos, and took first in three of them (didn’t cash in the fourth). Very quickly, I more than doubled my $100 deposit. Hopefully my luck will keep running that way. I also played in a few $5+.50 multitable tournaments, but didn’t do very well in them. I cashed in one for like $15, but didn’t do anything worth noting in the rest of them. I also tried a little bit of .25/.50 limit hold ‘em, as that’s the highest I should play with $100 bankroll, but decided I just can’t play with players that bad. I know, in the long run, if I can deal with the suckouts, it’d be good, but I can’t. The players at .25/.50 at UB were worse than the .02/.04 and .05/.10 at PokerStars. It was painful watching them (and losing my money at the same time).

After I cashed out, my brother decided to do the same. He accidently left himself with $1 at UB. After a little bit of .01/.02 NL, he had $5.50, and bought into a multitable tourney. Several hours and a second place finish later, he had $690 in his account. All on the same day he cashed out the rest of his money. Some cashout curse.

1and1 has a fairly low limit on memory available for scripts, it seems, and my AWStats runs out of memory trying to update from the log files, and gives a 500 Internal Server Error (I assume also from lack of memory) trying to display the stats. I considered writing my own log file parser, but it’s against 1and1 policy to use MySQL databases for that sort of thing, which is the way I would have done it. Also, there’s no real reason for me to think I can use less memory and have it work as well.

If anyone has any suggestions, I’m listening.

The summer leagues have ended, and the regular leagues have now started. I’m bowling in three (3!) leagues this year, because I’m insane. I’m still in the two I was in last year (Monday and Wednesday nights), and in an additional one on Sunday nights. It’s not as competitive or serious as the other two, and only lasts into December, instead of until shortly before the summer leagues start. It was created to give people who didn’t want to commit a full year a chance to join a league, and looks like it’ll be fun.

The Wednesday night league started last week, and my team managed to take all four points. I bowled very well, finishing with a 618 series. Yesterday, we had a meeting for the Sunday league, and bowled three games, but they didn’t actually count for the league. I did even better, with a 631. Tonight was the first night of the Monday night league, the most competitive of the three (and it’s a half scratch, half handicap league). Of course, this was my worst night of the three. My first game was good, a 207, but the guy I was bowling against threw a 244. My second game wasn’t awful, but I took only half a point when I tied with my 182. The third game was terrible, and the fourth game I lost by 1 pin, 184-183. The rest of my team didn’t really do any better than I did. Hopefully, we’ll all bowl better next week.

Sometime in the past year or so, Google has changed their AdSense policy to allow personal sites, or my site has enough content now that it’s acceptable. Anyway, I re-applied last week, after reading Michael’s post over at Cruft, and they approved me. I currently have the ads running on my individual post pages, and on my terror alert page. I don’t know if I’m going to leave them on the blog itself, as I don’t think it will bring in much of anything. The ads on the terror alert page, though, seem to be doing pretty well.

In other site related news, I now have my posts in categories. All the old posts should have the categories set fairly soon. You can click on the category link below a post to see all posts in that category. Soon, I’ll probably have links to all the categories on one of the sidebars.

From just off the bike path.

So, I said I was cashing out of all the online sites. That was true, I did. The main reason I did it was because I was getting bored with playing and playing hands I shouldn’t because of it. I was, obviously, losing money because of that. I cashed out, and figured in about a month or so, I’d put some of the money back in and start it up again.

Well, PokerStars wouldn’t let me completely cash out. They left me with fifty cents. Last night, I turned that fifty cents into $4.41 playing .02/.04 hold ‘em. For some reason, playing at that level, I was more patient and disciplined than I have been in a while. I guess it helps that no one else there is. I still don’t want to play as much as I have been, because I’ve been spending too much time on it, but my new goal is to see what I can do starting with just $0.50. I’ll keep you updated, unless I get bored of it, in which case I won’t.

Most of the news I’ve watched this week (besides the Daily Show), has been Fox News. Just so I, too, can be fair and balanced.

I especially loved the part where Bill O’Reilly told Sean “P. Diddy” Combs he should be a Republican, because he was a self-made man. Because, as we all know, Republicans, like our President, are all self-made men.

I’m sure everyone’s heard about this by now, the cop in NYC who was assaulted in the middle of a protest group. There are some things people might not have heard. First of all, the guy who was later arrested for the assault was not a member of the group protesting. Let me repeat that. He was not a protester. He was just some guy with a long arrest record, who found his way into the group of people, and decided to beat the cop up. The people were protesting peacefully.

While no one deserves an assault like that, neither does anyone deserve what the police officer was doing. First of all, he was a plainclothes cop, so no one knew he was an officer. With that in mind, take a look at this video: link (Unfortunately, you need Windows Media Player for that.) How would you react if someone in plainclothes, that didn’t identify himself as a police officer (he may have, I don’t know) was riding through the crowd on a scooter and running people over? He didn’t deserve the beating he got, but I certainly wouldn’t be upset if people tried to get him off the scooter and stop him, if only in self defense.

And let me state again, for the record, that the guy who assaulted him was not part of the protest group. It was not a politically motivated beating. Unlike, say, this one. Now, there’s no excuse for what these protesters did. I’m not at all supported them making their way into the RNC when they shouldn’t have been there. Still, that’s no excuse for what was done there. Wonderful advertising for monster.com, too.

As for the rest of the police in New York City, they don’t seem to be doing such a great job, either. It’s nice to know we’re not living in a police state, where people can get arrested for just walking down the street. Er, I guess that’s only when the Republicans aren’t in town.