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• Up at 4:40am taking pain meds. My face hurts. #
• Very upset at IX Webhosting. My domains have been down for over 24 hrs due to data center move. It should have taken less than 6 hrs IMHO. #
• Enough pain enduced ranting. Back to lala land with Vicodin. #

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• Today I got God’s favor for getting up early to feed the homeless. I was able to aviod traffic jams caused by five car pile up on I-26. #
• @propellerhead1 We cook breakfast at the family shelter over at Crisis Ministries off Meeting Street. They call us FTD (French Toast Dudes) #
• That was another perfect 140 character tweet! #
• Solo night with my three boys. MrsOzz is at a Godly Encouragement for Moms meeting. (GEMS) #
• Riley and I are having breakfast dinner. Grits, homemade biscuits, and sausage. Yummy #

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• Just finished a late night OTC meds run to Walmart. Caden (http://hoei.com/caden/blog) was running a fever. #
• @terrystorch At least Clinton’s responses to questions are not chocked full of uhms like Obama. Dem debates have been like comedy shows. #
• @tspencer Whose your cuz? BTW I found you by way of the Seacoast super geek @tracep. I was curious of his gender and weight guessing today. #
• Switching laptops. No charger upstair for this one. Surfing/working from very comfy horizontal position. #
• Back online with the MrsOzz’s $100 laptop. #
• Just published a post to http://GrowingKids.org on Potty Training and Bedwetting. #
• @gpittman Chances are really good that we know them. We are pretty active in the local ministry. #
• @problogger Advance posting can be done by way of Twitter Tools plugin using "Create a tweet when you post" option. Tweets when published. #
• @problogger I just tested the advance tweet with my most recent post on "Blogging Loop caused by Tweeter Tweets" on http://hoei.com #
• Now I have to delete the extra posts caused by the blogging loop on http://hoei.com #
• Sigining off. I am already on thin ice with MrsOzz over being up so late/early. Which is it at 3:25am, early or late? #
• taking way longer for Caden’s appoint at Charleston ENT than expected. #
• Has anyone else experiences blogging/twitter loops like this http://tinyurl.com/2m93rw ? Mine seem to be fixed now. #
• @Cantalyssa Sorry for clogging the aggregator with my mess. Hopefully all is well now. #
• @Cantalyssa I actually have some interesting content coming down the pipe. Stay tuned until I get off my rump and get it published. #
• @flowerdust Sorry, but I am not impressed with name calling of spouse in public even in jest. #
• @tst Define poor and financially secure. #
• @tst I was just giving you a hard time about the definitions. I would pay and have paid a healthy price to keep my opinion(s). #
• Using my Dave Clark H10-13 S aviation headset to listen to Brent Rowan "Bare Essentials" to drown out office chatter. http://snurl.com/22oc1 #
• Ahh…That last one was another perfect 140 character tweet. #
• My detailed review of an 18 page techncial document has me drained. I am looking forward to Friday’s dentist visit after that task. #

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I have been furiously testing Twitter gadgets just like a slew of other folks. Live happened and I did not blog or tweet much for a couple of days. However, this blog and my Twitter home page did not get the memo to stop the presses until I returned. Below is what happens when you tell Twitter Tools to “Create a daily digest blog post from your tweets?” and at the same time telling Twitterfeed to post tweets for all new posts.

And here is the Twitter end:

The way I stopped the loop was to disable the feed for this one domain in Twitterfeed.  I have activated the “Create a tweet when you post” option in the Twitter Tools options.  We will see how that works out.

• New from HOEI - Twitter Tweets 2008-03-24:
  New from HOEI - Twitter Tweets 2008-03-23:
  New .. http://tinyurl.com/2bvlnn #
• @tracep Trace, is it that time already? We will be praying for all today. Please call if you need anything. #
• @tracep Thanks for the updates. I called Sherry with your update so she could join in praying too. #
• Just got a call from MrsOzz. It appears that lil Ozz3 (Josiah) has just cut his third tooth. That explains the fussiness last night. #
• @tracep It’s a boy…7 lbs 2 oz. #
• @bradsingleton I don’t know Brad…I think she is delivering a little early for the mid 8s #
• @bradsingleton I hope you tweet your 1st time dad experience. That will be a good read. #
• @bradsingleton BTW..I had a friend in TX tell me that they loved our use of the Internet Campus. It’s in this post: http://snurl.com/22l4j #
• @loswhit Keep tweeting as long as your fingers will move. I am looking for encouragement for my dental surgery on Friday. I will tweet it. #
• @tspencer That’s one of the coolest series I’ve seen. I will have to do one. Where did you get the idea? #
• Retweeting @tspencer: "it is finished" I’m not talking easter story…I’m talking HATS http://tinyurl.com/ysrk6t #
• @loswhit I classify most southern drivers as dehydrated morons. Just add water and it gets infinitely worse here in Charleston. #
• @tracep CONGRATS! Sorry I have to ask this, but is that a boy Stacy or a girl Stacy? I have known both genders with that spelling. #
• 7 min count down to our http://GrowingKids.org class begins. #
• MrsOzz and I are presenting a live teaching tonight on temperments. #

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• New from HOEI - Twitter Tweets 2008-03-20:
  watching problogger live Q&A on http://www… http://tinyurl.com/2nvo3s #

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• watching problogger live Q&A on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/problogger #
• Mrs. Ozz just taught me a thing or two about recovering a lost web site. Read about it at http://tinyurl.com/29vxhk #
• Creating a template page for the GFI National Conference on http://GrowingKids.org #
• New from HOEI - Recover a Lost Web Site: Mrs. Ozz is a genius! Tonight she asked me, &#8220.. http://tinyurl.com/2ef385 #
• Just finished some edits to a Wikipedia article. It was my first time ever editing an article. #
• Trying twhirl for the first time. Hmm? #
• Monetizing my feeds on http://hoei.com #
• New from HOEI - Twitter Tweets 2008-03-19:
  @gpittman I just saw your message to me under m.. http://tinyurl.com/2dkx66 #
• Headed home for a three day weekend. YEAH!!! Taking Good Friday off for a day with the family. #

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• @gpittman I just saw your message to me under my replies. How did I miss it? I added you to my following list. Glad to see you too. #
• @problogger Darren, I have blog running on WP 2.5. I can give you an admin account to take a look under the hood if you would like. #
• new from LoO Meet the Osborne (Ozz) Family: From left to right: Sherry (aka Mrs. Ozz or Mommy).. http://tinyurl.com/2xn8th #
• new from BCC History of this Blog: I went to a conference back in July 2007 where I helped kic.. http://tinyurl.com/yodtln #
• from HOEI WordPress 2.5 Upgrade: I have stepped out on a limb and upgraded one of my production b.. http://tinyurl.com/3xset5 #

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Mrs. Ozz is a genius! Tonight she asked me, “what happened to Lowcountry Christian Community School web site?” As you can see from that link, there is little to see on their web site right now, well at least until I complete the instructions I am about to share with you. I told Mrs. Ozz that the LCCS administrators had let their domain registration and hosting service expire. This resulted in the hosting service deleting all of the HTLM files for that domain to free up space for the next paying customer. I told my wife that the school administrators had asked me to help build a replacement site which I had promised to do when I got some free time.

The next thing out of my wife’s mouth made me feel REALLY stupid. She asked, “can’t you just get a copy of the site from one of those online services that saves everything automatically?” My response was, “You are a GENIUS! I have not even considered that.” She turned a couple of shades of red as I proceeded to follow her advice.

What she is talking about is something like the Internet Archive WayBackMachine. As a result of her suggestion, I have been able to recover about 90% of the content from the original LCCS web site as it was last displayed in August 2007.

To recover the site I did the following:

1. Searched archive.org for the LCCS site
2. Clicked on the most recent copy of the site (Aug 2007)
3. Using Firefox - selected File - Save Page As (making sure to choose type “web page complete”)
4. Navigated to each subpage and repeated step 3 for each
5. Edit the content and FTP it into the new site location (In Progress)

That’s it. Now I have a pretty solid copy of the content from the school’s site prior to their domain and hosting service expiring. I can use these HTML pages to create the same look, feel, and content that they had prior to the expiration.

By the way, you have not heard the last of Mrs. Ozz. She has got the itch to do a little blogging. She will be joining me on The Land of Ozz(s) and she may actually jump into the mix over at GrowingKids.org as well.

I have stepped out on a limb and upgraded one of my production blogs (Riley’s Page) to WordPress 2.5 RC1.  Well, it is sort of production in that it is still live.  I plan to shutdown Riley’s Page at some point and consolidate all of my family blogging into my personal blog.  Here a couple of additional notes about this upgrade so far:

• Riley’s Page was running on its own MYSQL database instance
• It was a direct upgrade from WP 2.1 to 2.5
• The blog uses the default WordPress theme (the theme folder was not upgraded at all)

Others are blogging about this today and recommending a little more cautious approach than what I am taking.

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Invitation: I am inviting all of my blogging buddies to take a look under the hood of WordPress 2.5.  If you know me well enough to have my personal email, then drop me a note and I will hook you up with an admin account on the back end of Riley’s Page.