BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Chris writes: My buddy Rick, one of my oldest friends and dearest, has been in Bali for a few weeks. My mate the Bearman got an email from him a couple of days ago, and apparently Rick was partying it up in Kuta last Friday night. The bomb went off on Saturday night, […]
I just posted the first chapter of Practical RDF to the book review weblog. I plan on posting 2-3 chapters every day until all chapters are posted. I cancelled family commitments as I need to have the chapter reviews finished by the end of the month — I’ll be losing my web server November 4th, when the end […]
According to my statistics package, I had over 25,000 visits from Slashdot the last few days. I do know that my server felt the strain Friday night, but held together. I learned an important lesson from the experience — don’t save your pages as ‘php’, unless you really need the PHP functionality. As Mark said, Ouch! In addition, […]
My father is an extraordinary man. He came of age in the depression, working in any job he could get — from timber camps in Alaska to being a railroad man. In fact, he was working for the railroad when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At the train’s next stop, he got off, found the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My server is surviving the increased activity. Considering that the page getting hit is photo intensive and PHP-based, not to mention the strain the Perl-based comment system is adding, I think the server — and my host, Interland — came through nicely. There are some great comments at the Slashdot site, as well as […]