Brett Reilly's Blog

Well it’s crappy day outside today, it’s been raining since I got up this morning so what else is there to do but write something here.

This month I have been doing nothing except paying bills, watching tv and getting some exercise, as well as writing a few articles for my websites!

I started a new website psyspiritualforum.com slowly building it though it is up and running, it is a psychology and spiritual forum which is loosley based on spiritual psychology, woke up one morning with vivid dream on doing this so I did!

Yesterday I found my car smoking inside the car it’s exhaust gotta find $300 to fix it! GRRRRR!!!!

Got my car exhaust fixed, replaced the front six spark plugs on my car just have to book in to get the back ones done as it is way to much work because I am lazy, that is it on the car department.

On the websites have changed a few things on 7 meditations and started a monthly newsletter, found out that AOL was blocking the resolvers and to which blocks the ip that the website uses to communicate, got some seo sorted on all the websites as per the Google guidelines and all whitehat seo techniques we will see if it all works over the next couple of months.

Got me some Pearl Jam tickets to the concert in November here in Melbourne, can’t wait but I have to it is a time thing.

Got my Kitty Cats spayed and all is good with them, they were a little upset at first but now they are over it.

I am doing this a bit early but I am a bit bored was going to go out and take some pictures today but decided to finish cleaning up the house, there is always tomorrow right, will update if anything new happens.

Well Am a bit late been trying to set up a new server of my own its working, but no email or ftp is working so getting that sorted soon, decided to pay someone to sort it out for me I have given up as my eyes are blurry and sick of reading crap on the Internet that in no way benefits my goal or even the instructions suiting the program so much outdated stuff online for server management.

I am using virtual-min and have upgraded to pro to hopefully make it easier though it has just given me more settings to stare at and go ummmmmm> (scratches head) clicks on description (only tells me the basics of what it does) for more information I type in search words for subject matter and get someone Else’s problem that has nothing to do with mine through google and I am in the same boat as before.

Any way enough on the server stuff, I am trying to teach the baby kitty Marble to speak shes one of the ones who popped out of mummy (Tarsha) last year (see gallery), she can say mum or mom,  when mum isn’t around she repeats it over and over again, she can say her own name in short Marbs in a cat meow kinda way, now I might try to see if I can get here to say Brett, bit of fun, but she thinks the bath is here toilet don’t think I will ever get her out of that habit anytime soon.

I have switched from Cow to Soy in the milk department and I feel so much better, more energy and it actually tastes great.

Bought a book on Reiki going to start studying the art and do a weekend tuning course, then start practicing as soon as I get the hang of it.

Winter has hit cold weather for the next 3 months but it will give me some time to get some website stuff done.

I think that’s about it, see you in about 20 something days unless I have something to say in the meantime.

Maybe might start the Friday Video again…mmm..

Well my holiday ( 2 weeks off. ) is nearly over only 2 more days left, I got a lot done in that time, if your a regular reader, the look of the site has changed which will be tweaked over time I ended up finding a ready made one though I still may change it down the track for something more original, all my site have been moved over to the new server as per previous post and I went to Echuca along the degraded Murry river for a few days.

I am also working on Beyonddirectory.com (directory) and conspiractrader.com (classifieds), on Beyond Directory I have changed the structure of the directory to be more in the original Idea I had and with conspiracy trader I have decided to go with something I have not tried yet, classifieds, which I have decided to make it geographical in categories which is going to take some time.

And am thinking about a counseling service for lifehassles.com but am still unsure about it.

If you ever go to Echuca get a massage here.

I am also addicted to Gloria Jeans Coffee now.

In the last couple of months I have just been watching TV, catching up on movies and trying to keep the websites up and running due to a poor choice in hosting providers.

As per the previous post on getting  my car fixed it works great.

Had a lot of down time on the servers over the last couple of month due to an unreliable hosting provider, they told me I had to restart the server software my self on a managed VPS server, which was going down each and every day while I was at work or asleep, all they did was restart the containers as I started doing, though I asked them if this could be fixed I just got it’s up to you to keep your VPS server running, so I had enough and changed hosting companies, went back to reseller hosting for the moment until I can do some more research on reliable web Hosts.

Though I think a lot of the problems were from upgrading from a reseller account to the VPS as some settings were not changed in the process and this caused a lot of problems, the support was just useless the 30 tickets I place were answered, what do you want me to do about?, which really is not good for there business if that,s how they treat there customers. ( The company I was using was Netlogistics. ), Spending most of my time worriing whether the website was up or down stopped me from doing much at all to my websites.

Then the transfer of the websites to a couple of others finding the lack of support even worse was just astounding, a little tip: contact there support before you sign up to anything just to see if they answer and there response to your questions can tell you the quality your paying, I eventually chose a company I used a while ago for a small experiment fairly cheap and extremely reliable and great helpful support, Hostgator I have found to be simply easy to get along with and they have a great FAQ system setup, so less you have to contact support for and when you do, withing 20 minutes your  problem or request is done and no shrug of the shoulders no, it must be your fault, it’s plain English and fixed, not that I have had any problems with Hostgator yet but have contact support a couple of times.

Well that’s what has been taken up my time, plus work this last month or so, now I can get something done instead of restarting servers constantly.

Yes its true after nearly 7 months with out a car I am getting it fixed just before winter hits, I hope to have it back by the end of next week. With it costing a minimum of $2000 and if there is any damaged components or worn gears it could cost more.

The fun of having a semi automatic transmission from Mitsubishi, the part we suspect that was the problem is a small electronic sensor, that apparently costs around $25 dollars but to get to it the whole transmission has to be disassembled.

Who was the intelligent engineer that designed that?