The other day I decided to start migrating this weblog to Wordpress. Installing WP is easy enough: download, untar, chmod a few things to world-writable for my future convenience, add a new MySQL database in Plesk, point my browser to the install script, clickety-click, tweak the settings to my liking, check out a few new […]
Archive for November, 2005
Scaling via Acquisition?
29Nov05When Six Apart acquired Danga / LiveJournal, my first thought was that they were buying the expertise they needed to scale. The fine folks at Danga had published a wealth of information on building scalable services and open sourced a bunch of helpful tools, such as memcached. Now we see Joyent buying TextDrive to bring […]
Things Worth Keeping
26Nov05Things I purchased this year that didn’t suck:
Homebrew Media Center PC: Dual tuners. Online spotlight. I have not missed my Tivo for even a second.
My own dedicated server: Technically I made the purchase in October 2004, but I didn’t move my sites over until March. Full root access with gobs of RAM, disk, and bandwidth […]
Things I’ve Returned
26Nov05The end of the year is nearing, seems like a good time to make a list of the things I purchased and returned (or wish that I had) this year:
Motorola A630: I got this in December and sent it back in January. Awesome form factor. Lousy UI. Limited software. Crippled network service from T-Mobile.
Vizio P42HD […]
Russell Beattie says if you’re not using Yahoo! advertising, you’re losing money. Since switching from Google AdSense to Yahoo! Publisher Network he’s trippled his advertising income. Wow.
I tried YPN on Autocross Addict for a little while. Almost all of the ads were for VOIP, broadband, mortages and real estate — completely irrelevant. I see the […]
Black Friday
25Nov05Today marks the start of my quasi-exile from all retail establishments. I figured out a few years ago that I don’t actually hate the holidays — it’s the traffic, long check-out lines, and the rampant commercialization subverting all meaning from the holidays that I hate.
Spend! Spend! Spend!
Until late-January I put a clock on all retail […]
Starting Another Weblog
20Nov05Lately I’m not so sure what this ‘blog is supposed to be about, but I’m pretty sure it’s not about cars and autocrossing. One nice thing about having my own dedicated server is that it takes just a few minutes to register a domain and get a new weblog started: www.autocrossaddict.com. It’s still a work-in-progress.
I […]
Google Frees Urchin
14Nov05If you’d been wondering what Google planned to do with Urchin, now we know: Google Analytics. It looks like the successor to Urchin 6 On Demand, now free with no limits for Google Adwords account holders and up to 5 Million page views per month for anyone else. Prior to the Google acquisition this service […]
