I can’t sleep at the moment, so thought I’d take this opportunity to post something that’s been on my mind. (Shamelessly stolen from the Bard.)
LXXXVIII
When thou shalt be dispos’d to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side, against myself I’ll fight,
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The injuries that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right, myself will bear all wrong.
You remain foremost in my mind.
I love you, Dana. Sleep well.
I thought I had this ironed-out a day or two ago, but it turns out I was wrong. Seems that a machine inside my local network (well, DMZ) can’t be accessed by other hosts local to it (i.e. on the same LAN) in the same way as hosts external to my network (i.e. coming in from the internet), without
- Split-horizon DNS, or
- PF trickery
I tried the DNS route, but had issues with resolving hosts in my same domain yet external to my LAN, so I went with pf trickery instead. All local hits to my httpd server appear, thanks to traffic rewriting, to come from the same host - but I can live with that, since it’s unlikely that anyone but myself will be accessing this page from within my internal network.
On a related note, I’d like to both thank the maintainers of OpenBSD for an excellent OS and recommend that anyone in search of a simultaneously-robust-yet-at-the-same-time-no-frills firewall OS give it a shot.
I’m not 100% certain, but I think I’m done with this blog’s configuration. There are so many customization options for WordPress, I’m not sure
- Where to start
- Where to end
- What might accidentally make this site look like something a “W00t bitches! Look at my web site, I’m so cool!” myspace-user might put up.
I’ve settled, for the moment, on the “plaintxtBlog” theme: it’s simple, clean, effective, and hopefully won’t get in the way of the site’s content. WordPress and its themes make site design so simple. I recall agonizing for so long on the layout and consequent CSS coding on a past web site that I eventually just gave up in disgust. Now, I can let that slide, and worry about what I’m going to write!
I finally got around to setting up an Apache server & WordPress!
Now the world can read of my gripes, nuances, foibles, and momentary lapses of reason!
Huzzah!