I was told that today not once, but TWICE. I host my various web sites on a Virtual Private Server. Â Since I never come close to using the bandwidth allotted to me every month (No, dear Internets. Â That is NOT a challenge.), I host sites for a couple of friends as well. This afternoon, I
I’m posting this from my new iPad. So far, I really REALLY like it. It’s an incredibly fun new toy. I don’t know that it would ever replace a laptop for me, but WOW! It’s a solid little device for a first generation thing. Go get one yourself: Zagg iPad Giveaway
I have a new favorite number. It’s a little more complicated than “lucky 7” or “3 is a magic number.” My new favorite number is: 999999999999999999999949999999999999999999999 I know it looks cool, just sitting there all by itself. That many nines all put together like that makes the number look really really big. The 4 is
I found a new WordPress theme and I really quite like it. I hope that you do too. As a matter of fact, I found a hundred free themes.  You might like some of them. If you’re looking for a good WordPress theme, this site is worth a click!
What am I dealing with? Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Yes, the spambots are getting feisty these days.
Last night, I finally had some time to help my younger son with his iPod. He wanted to put some more movies on it. I didn’t think that would be such a big deal. When we connected his iPod to iTunes, it told us that there was a software update available. We decided to update
Douglas Adams understands Software Engineering. In a quote in this post he explained software engineering pretty well. But here’s another quote that explains software engineers pretty well: I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to
I’m writing this post from a new computer at work. One of the things I work on is a Software Development Kit for Linux, UNIX and Mac. From that and the title, you can probably guess that the new computer is a Mac. It’s an iMac to be specific. I’ve always been of the opinion
The lag is really gone. REALLY. The site has been up and running without a reboot for more than a week now. Swap in/swap out statistics look perfect: 0 and 0 respectively. *whew!*
The settings I tweaked for the database server? They were only part of the problem. They were just the beginning. My VPS has only 128 megabytes of dedicated memory. No, that’s not a lot of memory, but for a simple web server, it’s sufficient. At least, it’s sufficient IF some settings are right. Unless you