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Finally

For years I’ve been trying to get the teachers at school to utilize the school website. Hell I work hard enough at it, each teacher is given an email address and last year I set up a bulletin/blog which I update when necessary and offered access to the teachers to post homework assignments and/or reminders.

E-mails have NEVER been used, teachers figured they’d get inundated with questions from parents (exactly the point of it if you ask me, easy to send a quick email than spend 10 mintues on the telephone – parents check email, how many of us read those damn fliers sent home?). None have ever requested access to the blog, they feel it’s the student’s responsibility to write down the homework when it’s posted on the board at the end of the day, if they don’t then tough shit.

FINALLY, two teachers have expressed an interest and already the 7th grade teacher (my son’s teacher :) ) has posted the homework assignment for this evening – my son is not amused. No longer will he be able to tell me there’s no homework when there is homework since now all I have to do is log onto the website. I’m pleased.

Cleading hdd

In the hour or so I found free yesterday (both hubby and babe sleeping and parents relaxing) I cleaned up a portion of my hdd. Mainly stuff I’d downloaded, trial versions of programs that have long since expired, games I no longer play. There were so many zip files dotted around the place, I got fed up of opening them to see what they were, God forbid I label them with something I can actually recognize. Of course the random deletion of zip files is sure to bring a blog post within the next month or so screaming about how stupid I was to just delete without checking first.

Why am I doing this you ask? I have this feeling of impending doom that my pc is gonna go poof. It’s about 3 years old (or maybe 4, can’t remember) AMD XP1800 and it’s a workhorse. Been a trusty machine, and there isn’t much it won’t run and still speedy. But I have this feeling…

So I also started burning my documents, and photos, and blog stuff and anything of importance to disc, just in case. My efficiency frightens me.

Rewrite rule

Exactly what does this do?

# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite1.com.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite2.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite3.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite4.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite5.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite6.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?spammersite7.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*$ http://www.some-other-website.com [R,L]