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# David Spencer

Sacramento Website Consultant

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [Greatest Crisis of our Lifetimes?](https://www.recneps.com/greatest-crisis-of-our-lifetimes/) - I was thinking today about what the people of my generation (tail-end of Boomers) has gone through. We've experienced some once-in-a-lifetime events: 9/11, the COVID-19 Pandemic. But then again, I would say that the Vietnam War was a pretty dramatic life-changing event. Then again was the Black Friday stock market crash. And the Great Recession
- [Mobile App Development and Learning Something New](https://www.recneps.com/mobile-app-development-and-learning-something-new/) - Just over a year ago I decided that I was going to take on the final frontier of application development: mobile apps. The reasoning was simple: for some time now, more than half of the devices accessing the Internet were mobile. That meant a growing market for those services. And developing mobile apps paid well
- [Guns and Abortion](https://www.recneps.com/guns-and-abortion/) - Artificial Intelligence is currently a media darling. When they’re not talking AI, the rest of the news is dominated by abortion and guns. I wanted to write a learned essay about the similarities in the arguments for both. But then I thought that it might be better to let AI do the work for me.
- [WordPress Week](https://www.recneps.com/wordpress-week/) - I host all my WordPress clients at DreamHost. This offers me a number of advantages. First, there are two platforms available to me: shared hosting and my own VPS. Shared hosting works fine for low-volume websites that are mostly static pages. If I front them with caching from CloudFlare (or something similar) then no-one can
- [The SacBusiness hub of websites](https://www.recneps.com/sacbusiness-hub-of-websites/) - I've been faced with a difficult problem. Originally, I ran this simple blog site as well as my SacAutos business website. Then I decided to try and capture some WordPress business, so I created the SacWordPress website. Of course during the pandemic I was building the SacBusiness directory website. Then Steve decided to retire and
- [I Finally Turned Off Registration](https://www.recneps.com/i-finally-turned-off-registration/) - After running this blog for a number of years, I have finally caved to the annoyance of all the random subscriber registrations. I really didn't want to do it. But I have obviously been deluding myself. Somewhere in the back of my mind I must have been thinking that my occasional commentary on the state
- [Some of my favorite albums](https://www.recneps.com/some-of-my-favorite-albums/) - Those people who are closest to me know that I love music. At one time I must have owned a thousand record albums and still own around 700 CDs. (Though I have ripped them all to MP3 files now and manage them via iTunes.) Many publications and people have published their greatest albums list. Why
- [PageWeavers returns](https://www.recneps.com/pageweavers-returns/) - The other day I got a call from my old business partner at PageWeavers. He wanted to take me to lunch. So, over a sandwich, he told me that he was tired of being in the website business and wanted to retire. He offered me the chance to take over PageWeavers. In case you haven't
- [Website taken to the next level](https://www.recneps.com/website-taken-to-the-next-level/) - I had an epiphany the other day in the shower. I have this website. Why aren't I using it more? So, after a year of no updates, the website has been dramatically expanded. And that's not all. Look for more updates with this site as well as SacAutos and SacBusiness as we close out the
- [09/04/2007: How to “fix” the WNBA - a modest proposal](https://www.recneps.com/09042007-how-to-“fix”-the-wnba-a-modest-proposal/) - (This isn't the first time that I've made the case that the WBNA will ultimately fail unless they make some fundimental changes. However, this is my first "public" attempt at making my case outside of letters to the WNBA and ESPN. I originally wrote this in 2007 and am finally now posting this as a
- [The National Republican Party must be destroyed to save our nation](https://www.recneps.com/the-national-republican-party-must-be-destroyed-to-save-our-nation/) - Let me begin this rant with the declaration that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. My official party affiliation on my voter registration is “Decline to State.” When I was affiliated with a party some twenty five years ago, it was with the Libertarians. As an outsider, don’t attempt to paint me as
- [Initial Impressions After Switching From AT&T U-verse to AT&T TV](https://www.recneps.com/att-u-verse-to-att-tv/) - I’ve been an AT&T cable TV customer for about ten years. When we moved to our current community, we gladly dumped Comcast’s cable TV service that we had at the time. It’s been so long ago now that I don’t even remember the specific issues that we had. But we were pleased overall that U-verse
- [How to destroy a TV show](https://www.recneps.com/how-to-destroy-a-tv-show/) - One of my favorite shows on television is one that appears weekdays on ESPN. It is called Pardon The Interruption, or simply PTI. The show began broadcasting in 2001. I’ve rarely missed an episode. The format is simple: two veteran sportswriters sit at a table and talk about the sporting events of the day with
- [Maxim Dadashev Died Today](https://www.recneps.com/maxim-dadashev-died-today/) - A boxer named Maxim Dadashev died today in Maryland. I'm not a fan of the sport but I've seen a lot of fights from my youth. It used to be that boxing was a big deal in America. There was a televised boxing card every Friday night. Men like Muhammad Ali were national figures. But
- [Three years??](https://www.recneps.com/three-years/) - OMG! I just looked at this WordPress site because version five is now available. It's been three years since I last posted something. Jeez! Not that the world has been beating down my door for nuggets of wisdom or anything. But wow, looks like I've been busy. On the other hand, perhaps it's been a
- [MyHosting.com Nightmare!](https://www.recneps.com/myhosting-com-nightmare/) - I have a customer that has a large auto dismantling business. They provide an online car part search function (that I created) on the site based on a third-party database. Periodically I reload the database with refreshed data. That data comes to me as a Microsoft SQL Server database backup. I crack that file open by
- [CIA Torture Report](https://www.recneps.com/cia-torture-report/) - This morning I downloaded the Select Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture. The entire document is 525 pages. However, the forward and executive summary are considerably smaller and a manageable read. Reading what had been done in the name of the American people - in my name - brought me to the point of
- [My Second Chance Year](https://www.recneps.com/my-second-chance-year/) - My wife and I started playing the California lottery on a regular basis shortly after we got married some seventeen years ago. No big prizes yet but we’re always hopeful. :) I’m always the one who buys the tickets. We play the same numbers each time so I use the “advance play” option which means
- [Disappointment with 1&1](https://www.recneps.com/disappointment-with-1and1/) - It seems that all I write, when I write, is about bad customer experiences. I've got another one to detail today. But before I do so, I'd like to make the point about why I write these reviews. First, I can get this aggravation off my chest. I've had to take action that I didn't really
- [The Concussions Must End](https://www.recneps.com/the-concussions-must-end/) - I was watching a football game the other day. One of the players that was on my fantasy team got knocked out of the game early. I was bummed. Then I got what I thought was a brilliant idea. Why can't they get some of those accelerometers that they use in cell phones and put
- [HostGator Survey](https://www.recneps.com/hostgator-survey/) - On August 2nd, the network switches to the Ace Datacenter in Utah went down, taking out millions of websites managed by HostGator, BlueHost and many others. The majority of my customers were on a dedicated server at that Utah facility. The outage was massive and an entire day of business was lost. Along the way
- [It's time that cable television admits that YouTube exists](https://www.recneps.com/cable-tv-rant/) - Like most of America at one point, I have a cable television box. In fact, the service that I currently use is AT&T's U-verse. It's actually a good system. I've previously had Comcast and Dish Network. The service is adequate, easy to use and has plenty of channels to choose from. In general, I'm pretty
- [A speed limit for guns](https://www.recneps.com/a-speed-limit-for-guns/) - Like all Americans, I was horrified by the killing of so many innocents in the recent Newtown Connecticut shootings. I'm very Libertarian in my views about most things. However, this tragedy has pushed me past the limit. Something must be done about the unfettered access to weapons. Predictably, there has been an almost immediate and
- [Did I mention how f***ed up the iPhone IOS6 podcast app is?](https://www.recneps.com/did-i-mention-how-fed-up-the-iphone-ios6-podcast-app-is/) - Here's the deal. I actually like how podcasts were moved out from under the wing of the music player in IOS6. Listening to a podcast is an entirely different experience than listening to music. Having different controls is a good idea. Kudos to you Apple for figuring that out. Having said that, I'm really mad
- [Parallels Plesk, Backups and the Cloud](https://www.recneps.com/parallels-plesk-backups-and-the-cloud/) - In 2011 I made a major change in my website hosting business. Up to that point, we had owned and operated our own servers. Finally, though, we reached the crossover point where it got cheaper to retire our gear and go "into the cloud." (A wonderful euphamism this "cloud." AWS really operates such a thing
- [Thoughts regarding iPads and education](https://www.recneps.com/thoughts-regarding-ipads-and-education/) - A lot has been written already about using iPads (or similar technology) for education. But nonetheless I'm going to make a few points that I feel need to be said. First, I think that starting with the second grade children should all be given a tablet. If every child gets one, there's no jealousy over
- [More Parallels Plesk ranting](https://www.recneps.com/more-parallels-plesk-ranting/) - I just spent four days of my life trying to restore a lost domain from the external backups stored on another server. I figured out most of it but just couldn't get it completely right. So I bit the bullet and plopped down $75 to open a support ticket. Eventually I figured it out but
- [My recent experience with Parallels Plesk Server software](https://www.recneps.com/my-recent-experience-with-parallels-plesk-server-software/) - I've recently been having a lot of trouble with email since the "upgrade" from version 8.6 to 9.0 of the Plesk Server Administrator control panel. I'm very angry about this situation and I feel the need to explain why. First of all, the reason I'm angry is not because qmail failed to work properly with the new update.
- [These guys deserve biopics](https://www.recneps.com/these-guys-deserve-biopics/) - Two of the funniest men who ever lived, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, are unknowns to the current generation. In their primes, they were at the top of the entertainment industry. Isn't it about time they were reintroduced to America? I've already figured out who should star in these pictures. For Benny, I can't imagine
- [Welcome to the 20th Century](https://www.recneps.com/hello-world/) - Well, I finally did it. After 12 years of having a personal website, I finally got around to starting to use it. I imagine I'll be hearing from the media any moment now... Meanwhile, now that I have a blog, it causes me to reflect on why I registered a personal domain in the first

## Pages

- [About](https://www.recneps.com/) - Thank you for visiting my personal page. My name is David Spencer and I am a Website Consultant. You may find me through SacAutos, SacBusiness or PageWeavers.
- [Hire Me](https://www.recneps.com/hire-me/) - Consider the example of one of my best clients ever: the Niello Company. Niello hired me early in the gestation of the Internet to be, for the lack of a better term, their Internet Handyman. I registered their domain names. I built their dealership websites. Provided email addresses. Added spam filtering when it became an
- [Highlights](https://www.recneps.com/highlights/) - The Niello Company Back in 1996 my business partner and I had joined the Metro Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of promoting websites for members. Roger Niello was the President of the Chamber, so I created the first dealership group website for the Niello Company. Over the next twenty-five years, that simple website grew
- [Websites](https://www.recneps.com/websites/) - Not only do I build and manage websites for my clients, I own and operate a number of websites of my own. Here's a list of the important ones: SacAutos SacAutos is my primary business website. Currently it is a portfolio website for my Website Consultant business. However, it is my plan to make it
- [Skillset](https://www.recneps.com/skillset/) - For about the last twenty years, I’ve been professionally building websites using what used to be called the LAMP stack. That’s Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Of course things have evolved a bit since that term was first coined. Yes, I still rent and manage Linux (CentOS) servers. But that also entails a lot more

## Categories

- [Blog](https://www.recneps.com/category/blog/) - Thoughts, comments and announcements