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OCMS 3.0 in the works

Alan McCloskeyJul 2, 2009August 25, 20141

I previously had written about my dilemma about upgrading the engine that OCModShop uses. The OCMS 2.0 CMS engine was written by a friend way

How Michael Jackson Affects OCMS

Alan McCloskeyJun 26, 2009August 25, 20141

I’m working on publishing some new articles, and to do that I have to go to other sites for resources… but some of them are

Quick Articles FTW!

Alan McCloskeyJun 25, 2009August 27, 20140

I tend to procrastinate… and I’ve accumulated quite a bit of hardware that has yet to be reviewed. One of the reasons these things pile

With my rice I like to have some cow cow cow

Alan McCloskeyJun 23, 2009August 27, 20140

A long time ago I heard this weird song on X-play and it has been stuck in my head ever since. Every time I make

Reason for the lack of updates

Alan McCloskeyJun 1, 2009August 25, 20141

Some of you may have noticed (ok, a LOT of you have noticed, based on the emails I get) that OCMS hasn’t really been updated

dot com Pho

Alan McCloskeyMay 18, 2009August 25, 20142

Last week I went to lunch with John Chow and several others in the Seattle area who run successful and profitable websites. Joining me for

Getting stats…

Alan McCloskeyApr 25, 2009August 25, 20140

Of course, one of the best things one can do when running a website is compile information about your website. This not only helps you

Mac Bloggers Bashing Laptop Hunter Commercials

Alan McCloskeyApr 17, 2009August 27, 20146

I’ve seen a few technology bloggers immediately start bashing the Microsoft “Laptop Hunter / it’s a PC ” commercial. They say that it’s like comparing

Finally imported banished IPs

Alan McCloskeyApr 10, 2009August 25, 20140

There is certain traffic that I don’t want to be able to see any of my websites. There are certain countries (which will remain nameless)

Extraterrestrial Bike-Reflector Dance Party 2003

Alan McCloskeyApr 9, 2009August 25, 20140

I was going through some of my old articles, and sometimes I don’t even remember writing certain stuff. It’s like that part of my life

Riddick in the Hizzouze

Alan McCloskeyApr 8, 2009November 28, 20140

So, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena came in today. The PR firm sent it out as soon as the game was released,

I took out an ad on the bus

Alan McCloskeyApr 1, 2009August 25, 20140

I was presented with a pretty good deal lately. In exchange for donating some of the leftover lab computers, I was given free advertising on

The lights went out in OCMS

Alan McCloskeyMar 31, 2009August 25, 20140

My wife just informed me that the electricity went out on the block… but she was still able to IM me… meaning that the UPS

DNS Servers Crashed Hard

Alan McCloskeyMar 23, 2009August 25, 20140

In case you hadn’t noticed, OCModShop (and all its sister sites) were unreachable at about 5:30 PST. Apparently the DNS servers I go through went