Category Archives: meta

Few days ago I got dugg for the second time in my life. Last time this happened it was smooth sailing. This time around, diggers literally buried my server. I’m guessing part of it was the fact my post included … Continue reading →

Oh man I’m getting hit hard. Digg already killed my server once today. I’m hoping to get this post in before I go down again. If this site phases in and out of existence all day, keep in mind it’s … Continue reading →

Every time I try to post something on Twitter lately I see this: Either that, or an internal server error. I have been twittering less and less in the last month or two – but at this point I hardly … Continue reading →

Must be this time of the month. The site was down most of the day today because of some issues at dreamhost. Sorry about that, but these kind of things are out of my hands. It seems that they resolved … Continue reading →

I noticed today that all the Live Journal feeds I subscribe to via Bloglines have a red exclamation mark next to them. This essentially means that Bloglines can’t read the feed, and thus no updates will show up for it … Continue reading →

Wohoo! I just got my first adsense check in the mail. It’s a free $120. :mrgreen: With what I pay for hosting this site, this check will almost cover the whole past year, not including the domain name registration fees. … Continue reading →

I entered the crunch time for my thesis work. If postings are scarce here over the next few days, it’s because I’m loosing sleep, putting final touches on the thing and generally and freaking out. I’m defending on the 24th. … Continue reading →

I added Gravatar support to this site. If you don’t have a gravatar account, go sign up. You give them your email, and upload an image. Nice part is that this pic will not only display here but on every … Continue reading →

If you are following me on Twitter you probably know this already. If not let me tel you – I got flooded. Not much mind you, but only because 6 people were working on stopping the watter, and carrying buckets … Continue reading →

Do you nod in agreement during conference calls? This is something I noticed today. I was sitting in at a table in a conference room along with bunch of other people listening wand watching a live demo of an online … Continue reading →

If you visited this site in the last 2 hours you might have encountered the default wordpress database error message. My host was experiencing some issues tonight, and while the server where all my files live stayed up, the database … Continue reading →

I just added some new features for your convenience. I added “quicktags” to the comment form, so that you don’t have to type HTML in the box anymore. And you can easily post a link, without having to type out … Continue reading →

Everyone seems to be really loving Tumblr these days. It is yet another Web 2.0 service that lost a vowel to gain the cool factor. So I decided to make my own Tumblr blog. Feel free to check it out … Continue reading →

Anyone out there using Twitter? Do we have any twitterati (is that the correct term?) in the house? Come on, let me know. I just signed up, and I like it. My only complaint is that I can’t get up-to-date … Continue reading →

The site was down between 3 am and 7am EST today. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this was beyond my control. My host was doing maintenance in their data center, and had to shut the power down in their … Continue reading →

As you may have noticed I removed the amazon ads from the main page and individual blog posts. The reason was two fold – first, they created visual clutter, and second, they were completely useless. At least adsense tries to … Continue reading →

I did two things today – I opened up registration for this blog, and created the /forum/. I figured that this might be a little bit more interesting than a shoutbox. Or not… What do you think Travis? Note, you … Continue reading →

Anyone knows what in the hell is going on? Do I still get revenue for clicks and page views while their site is down? Because Google adds are still showing up on my site… Was this scheduled, or did one … Continue reading →

Dreamhost is having it’s monthly hiccups again. I swear – it’s like clockwork. I’m starting to wonder if maybe they are using a cron job to reboot my server every 20 days or so. :P They seem to have resolved … Continue reading →

So far the most efficient task tracking, and scheduling tool I have found is a notebook. This is the truth. The thing about online calendars and todo lists is that I can’t get into habit of using them… Ever. I … Continue reading →

I’m currently being hit by some sort of Zombie swarm averaging 20-30 posts a day. They are all coming from different IP’s and trickle in at different times. There are maybe 5-6 different patterns that repeat over and over again, … Continue reading →

Over the next 2-3 weeks posting here will likely be scarce. I’m planning to invest most of my free time into finishing up my thesis work, so that I can hopefully defend it before the semester ends. So if you … Continue reading →

You may or may not know that I used to run a Gigi Edgley fan site. It was long time ago, in ancient times, back when you could get good quality web hosting for free (unlimited free hosting and badnwidth … Continue reading →

This morning I decided to upgrade my wordpress version to 2.0.5. The whole thing went smoothly, but several of the plugins which require you to actually edit some of the WordPress files broke. I think I fixed all of them, … Continue reading →

I was coming back from work last night, and I noticed a long winding line in front of my local BestBuy store. For a second there I was confused, until I remembered that today was the PS3 launch. I wanted … Continue reading →