Tuesday 03rd August 2010
Sunday 25th July 2010
Thursday 22nd July 2010
I think Google Reader is punishing me for perennially having (1000+) unread items! I like that word, perennially. Not really appropriate for this discussion as blog feeds don’t grow. Or do they?
This morning the site reported I had unread items, even when I went through and read them all. This means I’m seeing the same stories being reported as new, despite having already read them!
Has anyone else been having this problem? Given this is Google I’m fairly confident it’d be fixed in a few hours, knowing me I’m just an anomaly in their database that’s wrecking havoc or something. I have that effect on people, you see.
Tuesday 13th July 2010
Everyone hates splash screen advertisements that take up your entire browser window, so why do site owners still employ them?
Friday 04th June 2010
I’ve been running Fedora 13 Goddard on my ThinkPad X40 for the last few days. Aside from some rendering and install issues, things are pretty smooth sailing.
Saturday 29th May 2010
In late April, my webhost SegPub informed me the specific webserver causing problems for my site and the sites of many other people was in the process of being fixed. It’s now almost June and the problems are still persisiting for all of us, if the newsgroups are anything to go by.
Thursday 06th May 2010
Okay everybody, calm down. CALM DOWN I SAID! Everything is going to be okay, just CALM DOWN!!! Repressed memories from 2007/08 flooding back! CALM DOWN EVERYONE! But I don’t think I can sir. AAAARGH!
Thursday 29th April 2010
Finally some good news from Segpub regarding the timeouts and slow response times (3 minutes, 38 seconds for a plain HTML file?!) that have been sporadically plaguing my poor sites for months. From a mailing list email addressed to folks on my server:
The issues with [your server] unfortunately are related to search bots and a mix of other nasty traffic. We’re working really hard to get ontop [sic] of these and are pretty close to having everything resolved and back to normal.
Nasty traffic? That’s not a nice thing to call my Nonsense section! ;).
The problem is, because my sites slowed down to a crawl but still eventually loaded, they don’t count these problems as downtime which means they won’t be providing me any free months as stipulated in their uptime guarantee. Sneaky.
Thursday 15th April 2010
In our efforts to clean out our apartment here, we decided to put a bunch of old home entertainment equipment up on eBay. I’d forgotten just how maddeningly frustrating it could be!
