Alan’s Blog

I'm not sure how this would be in a cave but it looks like it could be fun in the open sea.

I want one!

Navy Seals PowerSwim

I am looking at getting a dedicated web host. A small machine with a Gb or so of Ram. I, with my partner Michel Hollands will do all the admin... backups etc.

As this is pretty pricey, to offset the costs I can offer simple web hosting accounts to friends at typical hosting prices. About $5 a month.

This is not a business and I really don't want to deal with people I don't know. If you currently have a host and are not satisfied with the service, or have been thinking about buying hosting, then it could be a good option. For the same price you get service you can trust and a lot of flexibility.

Michel and I know what we are doing and will offer python, ruby on rails etc. The host will be Linux, most likely centos

if you are interested contact me at mail@alanformstone.com

I searched long and hard to get this to work and eventually found a solution.

Build both python and cx_oracle as 32 bit. I will describe the full process for this some other time , but for the moment there quite a few post about this out there already.

this bit was puzzling though :

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While Puerto Aventuras missed the category five winds of Hurricane Dean. There was a lot of damage along the coastline due to pretty bad storm surge.

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