You may or may not have heard of a man named Daniel Robbins. There might be more than one Daniel Robbins, but the one I’m talking about is the founder of Gentoo Linux. There was quite a stir around 8 months ago when he announced he was leaving Gentoo to work at Microsoft in their Linux lab. There was quite another stir just the other day when he quit Microsoft. Continue reading
OK, I’ve got quite a few updates about this site here. First off, there’s a problem with running out of RAM on our hosting. I’ve fixed it by adding more swap space, but that is far from an ideal solution. There might be a short downtime between now and the end of March when I upgrade to a better hosting package.
I gots me a new car. Say goodbye to that 1991 Ford Tempo. Say hello to my copper red 2006 5-door Mazda3s with moonroof and 6-CD changer. Let’s just say it’s teh hotness. I plan to take good care of this car and make it last for many many years. I also plan to give it the full geek treatment. It’s already got my Super Mario dice installed.
Sorry if you were disturbed by the unexpected downtime. The server ran out of RAM and decided to stop the database server to free some up. I am currently working to make sure this does not happen in the future.
I am a big fan of the blog BoingBoing. It is, as it says, a directory of wonderful things. And the editors of BoingBoing are very intelligent people including the likes of Cory Doctorow and Xeni Jardin who I have much respect for. They often put up links to some of my favorite other smart people on the Internet like Douglas Rushkoff and James Randi.
You may or may not be aware, but there is a genre of music known as eurobeat. It’s not music that’s meant for everybody. You either love it or hate it. If you have seen the anime Initial D, then you have heard Eurobeat music before. If not, then I can only describe it as very high energy techno/dance music. Empasis on the very high energy.
So I upgraded this blog software up to WordPress 2.0. What does this mean for you? Absolutely nothing unless you happened to visit during the 30 seconds of downtime. Perhaps the site might be a little faster, but I don’t notice it. What does it mean for me? It means that blogging is ten thousand times more awesome.
Carry on.
