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Is this…progress?
It’s only been a year, but I’m looking at my website again going, “damn, I can do this so much better.” Guess I’m just discovering the shortcomings of CodeIgniter, especially when it comes to caching. Not to mention its url rewriting capabilities.
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The Shirty Japanese
When I first encountered it, I thought the Japanese term Yシャツ (Y-shirt) was a typo. The second or third time, I went and looked it up. The translation: business shirt.
The heck? I thought. Where did THAT come from? I finally figured it out the other day when I saw the unpunned version, which is written ワイシャツ (wai-shirt), which itself is the ( Read more... ) -
Quiet thoughts for a Friday afteroon
Drunk on piney scents drifting through the halls at work. Mmm, happiness. There's also a gigantic tree in the lobby of my building, quite tastefully decorated. I need to take a picture. Actually, much kudos to the decorators of my building's lobby. They do some of the most beautiful orchid arrangements I've seen ( Read more... ) -
Hosting headaches, pt. 2
Site back up along with a dire warning from the hosting company I'm using too much of their resources and that they'll pull the plug if the high resource usage continues. (Trying not to be sarcastic here and mention that I was running on a 3-year-old Dell with 1 G of RAM. Wait...oops.) It doesn't look like a security breach, thankfully. Apparently ( Read more... ) -
Hosting headaches
I'm having a problem with my hosting company right now which is compounded by a distinct lack of information and access. Self-hosting might be constant low-level stress with occasional spikes, but I'm beginning to think lack of control is worse. I know, it's not like I have anything earth-shattering or heck, that important in the universal order ( Read more... ) -
Ranty fresh
Huh, I just realized that I spent pretty much the entire weekend working. (My dad calls it “building my house.” :) ) Now that most of my day job is spent on the Linux system side, (and how did THAT happen?), it felt good to be doing website coding again. Also, to be working for my old team, because I don’t know if I’ll ever stop missing them.
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Tell me something that’s not already eating up my life
Mercedes Lackey, who gave me one of my favorite characters ever, is advocating fanfiction as a way of getting the creative juices flowing for her NaNoWriMo pep talk.
I LOL’d so hard, in the “it’s either laugh or cry” sense.
(Thanks, waffler, for the heads-up!)
Mirrored from Bridge into a Dreamer's Mind.
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As a member of the SMS club…
In other, not quite so techno-end-of-the-world news, I learned that it’s really, really easy to email an SMS to someone, because pretty much all of the most popular cellular companies have email->SMS gateways. Tech Recipes has a list of them. I tried Sprint and Verizon, and it worked like a charm. <3
(Now why aren’t we all inundated with SMS spam?)
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This is not a drill
There’s an interesting story by a New York engineer about trying to warn people about the dangers of using websites such as Facebook over an open Starbucks connection, now that Firesheep has made it so easy to steal identities to popular websites.
The author of Firesheep also has a great post with his thoughts on network security, the technology ( Read more... ) -
Actually?
I’m going to bet that Jim Butcher is a Buffy fan himself. I’m pretty horrible at spotting these things (totally missed the Spike-Halfrek connection until I read “Old Wounds”), but I did find these awfully familiar names:
Faith - Restoration of Faith
Ragged Angel Investigations - Restoration of Faith
Spike - Storm Front, Fool Moon
Alison Ann Summers ( Read more... )