Your Fear will set you Free

To give an idea of how big a project this was, essentially the old server was running on 15-year-old software. I had to upgrade ubuntu, apache, mysql and php to near-current versions. Php and mysql tightened up a lot of things for security reasons, so a lot of the work was changing the codes so it won't throw errors.

The thing that I'm happiest about is the polls are working. As long as you have a login to the directory you should be able to do the things that you used to be able to do. One thing I discovered is there were a lot more people adding amusing answers to the polls than I realized. I thought about 90% of it was parrott 😄

The functionality of what's on now is working, constrained by the fact that a lot of the data still needs to be updated. Salem Media in particular has been hard hit – Charlie Kirk was murdered, Michael Medved has left, Dennis Prager had a disastrous fall in his bathroom – he has done a few podcasts but he's not ever going to come back is a regular 3-hour day show. Hugh Hewitt has moved for mornings to afternoons.

The download from the FCC is mostly working, however they have done something that limits my server's ability to grab the entire license list. However, it works okay using my tablet, so my workaround is I download the data to my tablet and then I upload it to the server. There are still about 400 significant license changes that I still have to research.

I'll keep adding to this post as I have more information.

I put off right in this because I didn't know for sure if anyone would show back up.

Google does not seem very interested in indexing the side, so the chance of new people showing up is not good.

I'm currently struggling with the registration process. The web server was sending emails through Google but it appears that Google has routed my messages to a black hole. With the help from Gemini I was trying to establish a more legitimate email service using AWS, but that's not working.

The server is under significant distress by a botnet that probably originates in China that's just hammering everything. Some of the functions I've had to put behind a login requirement. That's your problem since people aren't going to be able to register.

This blog is on the new server but the other older blogs are stuck on the old server for now because of a failure to be able to migrate the blogs to the current version of wordpress.

If I haven't mentioned it before, the countess and I were divorced at the end of 2019. She returned to New Jersey where she was comfortable.

That's about the time I moved to Greensboro North Carolina and bought a condominium. It has three bedrooms about 1400 square feet, an attached garage and no steps. It was built in 2006 about 20 years newer than the place I was living in Charlotte.

In March 2025, I finally got around to having total hip replacement on my right side. It was severely arthritic as a result of a car accident in 1986. The people in the emergency room said if you live long enough you're going to get arthritis. I did, and I did.

There were no complications, and I no longer have to deal with the pain or lack of movement of my leg. Having said that, because that's not my only problem, I am resigned to remaining in my electric wheelchair. The physical therapy people from bayada were not comfortable with me trying to walk unless somebody else was here. I donated my 2001 Oldsmobile intrigue to the radio station at Wake Forest University.

My helper Margaret had to let me go because of her own health problems. I texted her a couple times just to see if I'd get a response and there's nothing. The last I knew she was taking ozympic which was helping her with her heart problems.

With a lot of help from Gemini (google) AI, I’ve been mostly able to bring the website online. A few things may not work and you may see a few warnings that you don’t need to worry about, but it’s back!

The downside is I haven’t done any maintenance of the data for 2 years so the information is horribly out of date. Whether I want to spend 3 months dealing with that is the future question.

A number of the things that were keeping me interested have turned to crap. So I think I’m going to make one more attempt to revive streamingradioguide.com with some help from AI

With all the events going on I thought it might be interesting or useful to revive the blogs and the posts. However my transition plan has failed. Currently I can’t get the updated system working correctly so temporarily at least, this is the old system before I broke it

I went today to grab information from the FCC database, and they have turned it off.

Please brer rabbit, don’t throw me in the briar patch ?

Well, it has been a grueling experience, but most of the hard stuff is complete.

The production server is now running a near current version of Ubuntu (operation system), MySQL (database), php (scripting langauge) and Apache (web server)

The one thing that isn’t converted yet is this WordPress blog. This is still on the old server and you can go ahead and sign in and make changes. Before I do the final move, I’ll synchronize the blog posts so we don’t lose anything.

The list of current blog posts on the main menu page is not going to automatically update as I create new posts.

It’s possible you’ll still see a few random warnings about functions not wanting to be passed NULL ?

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-valley-university

Charlie Kirk, Radio show host on the Salem Network, and co-founder of turning point was shot dead by a single bullet at an event at a Utah University. This is a breaking story. President Trump has confirmed the death and a suspect is in custody.