Moore Works

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Bicycling the streets of San Antonio for the last two decades I've noticed that sometimes motorists appear startled that I'm there. It's like I was invisible then suddenly I was visible to them. Perhaps this explains some of those startled looks.

San Antonio's own "Bicycle/Pedestrian Transportation Planner" Lydia Kelly shared this lovely bicycling article with me. I was surprised to learn that you are safer on a bicycle than on your sofa.

Now go get on that bicycle.

rsync gets:

root@QnD:~# rsync -r . /mnt/1/DaleQnD/
rsync: readlink_stat("/home/dalem/.gvfs") failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
skipping non-regular file ".byobu/.ssh-agent"
skipping non-regular file ".cache/gnome-system-monitor.dalem.2622870866"
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (965 bytes received so far) [sender]

Two different almost the same systems with ASUSTeK F1A75V Pro motherboard get different behaviors, though both fail with the new drive. System A CMOS SATA access speeds cut from 6Gb/s to 3Gb/s got reliable operation; on System B this didn't help. But System B worked when SATA-3 (6Gb/s) cables were used.  

I'd really like to reliably use my new 3TB WDC WD30EZRX-00M SATA HDD.

I may have to update my ASUSTeK post here.

You might have come here looking for Mooreworks the communications design company. They are located here and you can contact Alley Moore, the principal of MooreWorks.Com, via email to AM@MooreWorks.Com.

Founded in 1990, the studio provides graphic design services for print and digital media, architectural sign systems and museum exhibitions. Mooreworks specializes in communications design, providing visual solutions that make complex information clear, aesthetic, well-crafted, and useable. The studio works with companies, institutions, universities and colleges, publishers and museums.

Alley Moore is principal of Mooreworks. He founded the company after graduating from Yale University with a MFA in graphic design. He has 22 years of professional experience and an educational background that combines graphic design with writing and editing. His work has been exhibited at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, selected for publication, and awarded the gold medal by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Mooreworks
P.O. Box 738
19 Martha's Park Road
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Voice 508.696.1919

I find it interesting that Google's search division punishes other Google divisions when they try to "game" the search engine division to increase their page rank trying to show up closer to the top. I wonder "what would be the 'proper' way to increase my page rank?"

1. Write interesting blog articles on your site. Encourage your associates to participate and add comments on your articles. Fresher content will increase your page ranking. 
2. Ask your associates to link to your website. Links from other websites will increase your page ranking.

I suggest you spend one morning a week adding content to your website. Plan to spend the time and get back increased website traffic, activity that will improve your page ranking.

I keep thinking this is a good idea, or maybe I just want to go to a movie at the Zoo.

I enjoyed watching Charlie Rose's segment A look at the film "We Bought a Zoo" with director Cameron Crowe and actor Matt Damon here (Wikipedia, IMDB, RottenTomatoes, trailer.) Cameron and Matt's enthusiasm for their idea of bringing some joy to the world convinced me that's a great idea. My partner, Joanie, and I have been members of the San Antonio and Austin (FB) Zoos and enjoy taking our grandchildren to see the animals. It occurred to me that it might be nice to go to the Zoo at night. I don't have any particular animal or activity in mind; I just figured it would be a different experience and I'm betting there's some different nocturnal animal activity to experience. Somewhere from that mishmash of confused thinking bubbled to the top "Movie night at the Zoo."

I wonder if it's a good idea to go see the animals at night?

I wonder if the powers that be behind "We Bought a Zoo" would make it easy for Zoos to have a Movie night with their film?

I wonder, sometimes, if I'm an idiot.

What do you think?
Dale

I suggest you never give Medco your money. For the last year every month or two Medco calls my cell phone from 800-903-3589. They leave a "dial 1 to talk to somebody" message on my voice mail. When I call their number back they have no idea who I am or why their computers would be calling my cell phone number. 

Today they called and I actually had time to answer the call. They wanted Toby Fry. I have never know anybody named Toby Fry, and; when I called their number back they don't know who he is either.

I suggest you never give your money to Medco.

I learned in November that my web host GoDedicated.Com was ending business 31 Dec 2011; this was a big concern because I hosted my primary domain, MooreWorks.Net, there along with numerous other domains. I went looking for alternatives and settled on a novel solution; I'm using DNSExit.Com, SolidMistake.Com and ispConfig.Org. I didn't want to disturb my users and planned to have 0 interruptions of service so pre-cut-over testing was very important to me.

WC Spenn, with Dove Data Systems, has been a friend for decades and suggested I consider using SolidMistake.Com and their ispConfig.Org web hosting management software. Some time ago WC had suggested DNSExit.Com to serve my dynamic domain names and I have been pleased with their services; so his new suggestions seemed like good ideas. DNSExit.Com has one other advantage over my current domain name server GoDaddy.Com their cut-over times are in seconds instead of the days it takes GoDaddy.Com to make DNS server IPA changes.

My son, Josef, says "Trust but verify!" I planned to test everything before going LIVE. 

For testing I needed a separate domain to resolve to the new web host. I still have domain MooreWorks.Org from when I tried out Google Apps and realized it did not meet my needs. So I used sub-domains of MooreWorks.Org to test the new web host before cut-over.

I now had the pieces I need to make this work, hopefully without disturbing my different domain users.

1. I moved my static domains name servers and my hordes of sub-domains to DNSExit.Com; cut-over will be fast!
2. I created MooreWorks.Net at SolidMistake.Com with ispConfig.Org.
3. I used rsync to copy my website to the new host.
4. I built mysql databases, restored data and revised DB connection strings.
5. I created email accounts.
6. I created an alias domain MooreWorks.MooreWorks.Org with ispConfig.Org.
7. I pointed MooreWorks.MooreWorks.Org at the right IPA with DNSExit.Com.

Now I could test with MooreWorks.MooreWorks.Org. I browsed, emailed and tried to break the new sites; but, happily everything worked perfectly. (Well, I just finished the cut-over so I might be counting some chickens early.)

The cut-over was easy; all I had to do was change the IPA for each domain at DNSExit.Com.