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Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address

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If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. – Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address

Apologies for the Downtime

My server was down for a few days because I shut it off. I attempted to connect to my server one morning as I always do, when I realized that my SSH connects were not working. Unfortunately, I have been working for several important auditions these past few weeks, and so I didn’t have any … Continued

So Little Time

If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely? – Paul Ford With so many blogs … Continued

test broken link #2

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I am testing the Broken Link Checker Plugin with this test link here.

Kingfishers Catch Fire

A really awesome concert band piece by John Mackey. Here is a YouTube video someone created of the first movement: And here is movement two (this is what gets me excited): It’s available on his website for listening and ordering.

Nothing This Sunday

There isn’t really much to say about what went on at aidanmontare.net this week, since nothing really happened. I have been spending a ton of time practising for both flute and trumpet auditions, so I haven’t really worked on my website much. Some things coming soon: Building a mail server. I need one so that … Continued

Table of Contents

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When I build this site, I set the blog widgets to only appear on blog pages. That way you see things for finding blog stuff when you are reading my site., but not when you are reading the rest of aidanmontare.net. For a while, there was nothing on the other pages. Now, I finally finished … Continued

Automated Backup Script

I wrote a backup script for my server. It’s rather crude, but it works, and saves me a lot of work when I do a weekly backup of aidanmontare.net and code.aidanmontare.net You can view the script here.

Broken Link Checker Now Works

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I was able to get the Broken Link Checker WordPress plugin working on my site. I had to add exceptions to some of my security software for my server’s IP. I am quite confused why localhost would not work, but none the less, I now have a method of checking for broken links on my … Continued