Sunday morning (the 21st) Tamara linked to my post about concealed carry changing the political and legal culture in the U.S. It wasn’t an Instalanche but it was more than half of one:

Thank you Tamara.

My post about OSHA is going after ammo manufacturers got a link from Instapundit last week. While the number of hits weren’t as great as some people; with total of 6,975 page views in one day it is much better than the first time I got one. And it is the most page views I have gotten in a single day since I switched to Word Press in December of 2012 and perhaps ever.

Here is a more visual view:

A big thank you to Glenn Reynolds and especially the anonymous caller from the ammo manufacturer.

One of the plugins for this blog prepared a review of the year.

The most interesting things to me were:

• The most viewed post was The gun is all used up.
• The top referring sites were SaysUncle.com, PaGunBlog.com, and BooksBikesBoomsticks.blogspot.com. Thank you Say Uncle, Sebastian, and Tam.
• There were visitors from 147 countries.

The Department of Homeland Security likes the same post as the CIA:

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I wonder why they think this post is so interesting. And they both came here via a post at DirectorBlue.blogspot.com.

Earlier this month I had a visitor from the FBI.

Today it was the CIA:

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I’m honored to get attention from such special people.

I always enjoy my visits with the FBI. We have such interesting conversations. But when they come by I would prefer they at least say hi.

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This Tweet came out this morning:

From: The Original SPQR ‏@SPQRzilla

#FF @TamSlick @LawSelfDefense @monsterhunter45 @AdamBaldwin @BruceNV @LosFelizDayCare @iowahawkblog @HRatAOSHQ @JoeHuffman

I can’t begin to say how honored I am to be placed in such company.

A few minutes ago I discovered you would be redirected from my blog to a URL that looked like this:

http://x.vindicosuite.com/imp/?l=169943&t=h&u=&r=&rnd=75008735

Where the query string item ‘rnd’ had a different value each time you tried to visit my page. It appears to have been some sort of malware associated with Sitemeter. I remove Sitemeter and the problem went away.

Sorry about that.

But this may explain the complaints I have occasionally received from readers about popup ads here. There should not be any here. But if someone was able to infect Sitemeter’s scripts then such a thing is possible.

The domain registration info is as follows:

Registrant Name: Lee Sautia
Registrant Organization: Vindico LLC
Registrant Street: 245 5th Ave., 21st Floor
Registrant City: New York
Registrant State/Province: New York
Registrant Postal Code: 10016
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.6468332940
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: domains@vindicogroup.com

Using vindicogroup.com as an URL redirects to http://vindico.com/. This website claims they do behavior based video advertising. I would like to inform them that it is not surprising to me that such slimy behavior as theirs originated from someone in New York City and my behavior is to have nothing to do with them.

Because he sent this shirt to me, I took a long time to thank him for it, and he said, “THAT’S NOT THE SHIRT I SENT YOU!!!!!!1!!1!!!!”.

Update 8/25/2014 @1:32 PM: After much anguish, many partial restores, lost DNS records, out of RAM issues, orphaned databases, corrupted files, and I’ve lost count of things, I think the blog is working again with only two minor comments lost.

Update 8/25/2014 @3:52 AM: The move is back on.

Update: The move has been postponed due to technical difficulties in the exporting of the content. You may comment and post as desired until further notice.

Commenters: I’m moving my blog to another hosting provider. Any comments you make while this post is visible will be lost.

Co-bloggers: Any posts you make while this post is visible will be lost.

For months people have been getting 503 errors from my websites including this blog. They would all go bad at the same time and come back at the same time. My hosting provider was of almost no help. Ry suggested I try something and it sounded better than anything anyone else suggested so I have implemented it on the more important domains.

It may take an hour or so for the changes to drift your way over the “intertubes” but should you see strange behavior or errors on my websites after about 2:15 PDT today please let me know.

Update: I’m still getting the errors. Don’t bother to tell me about them.

Yes. My blog, and all my websites, have been delivering a lot of 503 error codes recently. When the error appears on my blog it also means that boomershoot.org, modernballistics.org, xeniajoy.com, scottfamilyplace.org and others are all doing the same.

When I last talked to tech support about this they said it was because I am getting more than 500 simultaneous connections. My logs from just the first four days of May show over 3000 “GET” requests for “wp-login.php” from nearly 1000 IP addresses. I read this as my blog is under attack.

I’m not convinced my logs are showing me everything.

I’ll investigate more this week.

I’ve added a new “partner” to The View From North Central Idaho: GunSafes.com. They offer free shipping on a large line of gun (and other) safes. They are almost a neighbor being physically located in North Idaho.

I’m not so sure about the Mesa Hitch Hiker Vehicle Safe even if it is kinda cool. I wish they had a console vault for one of my vehicles.