Now with CDN Goodness

October 29th, 2009

Portions of the site now come through the Coral CDN. That should ehlp the page load faster.

Quieter Updating

October 28th, 2009

I tweaked the settings on the plugin that notifies Facebook, MySpace, and other sites that I have posted a new article. They should now only post new status messages when a post is published or updated. The notifications that a post is started or saved should no longer occur.

Friendship

October 26th, 2009

Over the past several weeks, I have been working at a full time job on the other side of the city. When you add the commuting time to the time at work, I am gone for about eleven hours of the day. When I return home, I can feel tired and just want to lay down. Something I have missed in this though is friendship.

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Deadlocks in Internet Explorer

October 25th, 2009

I have been encountering deadlocks in Internet Explorer according to the Windows 7 Resource Monitor. More than likely, this is related to some sort of extension that I added recently that is not written correctly. Anyhow, I will be receiving Windows 7 Ultimate soon and will be reinstalling so it probably isn’t worth diving too much into debugging what is going on. The Analyze Wait Chain functionality is nice though for determining why a program is not responding.

A third and hopefully last test

October 25th, 2009

This is a test using a different plugin that updates social network statuses through Ping.fm. This plugin seems like a keeper for now.

Second Test

October 25th, 2009

This is a second test of a Facebook notifier plugin. I decided I did not like this plugin.

Testing Status Updates

October 25th, 2009

I installed a plugin to push status updates to Twitter and Facebook and so forth. This is a test to see if it is configured correctly. I decided I did not like this plugin.

South Harmon Institute of Technology

October 24th, 2009

I just watched the movie Accepted. The premise is that several students are rejected from traditional colleges. They proceed to form South Harmon Institute of Technology, what some might think of as a fake college. Its authenticity is challenged, and the students founding the school go before the board of eduction to make their case for accreditation. This reminds me of my own thoughts on education.

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Technology Dreams

October 24th, 2009

Every now and then when I see a poor practice of programmers, I think about the possibility of a world where such mistakes do not happen. I think about what I can do to make that future a possibility.

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Long Trips to and from Work

October 22nd, 2009

For a while, there will be long trips to and from work for me. This is all due to a propane tanker that exploded along the route to my work.

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