Updated: March 3rd, 2010
From time to time my, still curious, mind accumulates a variety of questions and concerns which it has to spill onto the pages of this blog. How random are these? Pretty damn random, and I need to see some answers, quick. Oh, and I’m deliberately not searching Google, as I want to facilitate discussion. What fun would it be if I just looked up all these?
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As Matt Cutts (Google's SEO and search quality expert) wrote in his blog entry a few days ago, Google PageRank updates are underway. Google updates PR (Page Rank) quite rarely – every three months or so, and it's the most important thing a website operator should be concerned with when it comes to site promotion…
Updated: July 26th, 2008
One of my most favorite movie series is not over yet. This is excellent news!
Producer Frank Marshall revealed plans to begin shooting a fourth Jason Bourne movie next Summer, for release in 2010. Universal announced the project back in February, with director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon set to return. Marshall also confirmed that they will probably be creating an original story for the fourth film.
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So the Comcast installer just left, and I'm sitting here in my new house, on the floor, with no furniture, testing how fast the internet actually is (because who really cares about other stuff?). Comcast Blast is supposed to be 16mbps down and 1mbps up (2 if you're extremely lucky). I'm still collecting my jaw all over the floor though, because these are the speed test results:
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If you're like me, most of your Wordpress plugins are checked out into your plugins directory from the official Wordpress SVN repository or some other one. I haven't updated any of mine for about a month and wanted to sync up everything quickly (including SVN externals). Here's a short command I ran to achieve that:
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cd YOUR_BLOG_ROOT/wp-content/plugins; find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec |
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One thing that still springs to mind when I think of the MySQL User Conference last week is Sun's opening keynote. While talking about Sun's market penetration with open source software, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, slipped in a short mention of the mobile market saying something along the lines of "Sun is going to be entering the mobile market later on this year". He…
Updated: June 16th, 2008
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svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5 |
and Beer Planet is on 2.5. There were no problems with the upgrade itself or any of the plugins. Great work on the new clean interface and multi-file upload, Wordpress!
Info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.5 (short) and http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/ (more detailed)
Christmas Tree in Kharkov, Ukraine 2007-2008
YouTube – Новогодняя елка в Харькове 2007-2008
I've never seen a tree this cool, even in US. Makes me kind of proud of the city where I grew up. Check it out.
Updated: December 17th, 2007
An adorable group of orphaned baby owls have been adopted by a silly-looking stuffed toy owl, after they were found on the brink of death in the wild. You have to see the photo to believe it – you will die of cuteness!
Are you dead yet?
I've recently installed eAccelerator on the web server that hosts this site and I wanted to share some of my impressions after a few days.
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According to some news reports, Comcast is increasing upload speeds for its 6 and 8 mbps cable customers (like me). Today I was extremely pleasantly surprised to see that my upload speed had doubled. Considering that the site is hosted on the same Comcast connection, it's probably good news for everyone, as it will load faster. Here's the result of a speed test I ran today: …
If you like 5-30s load times, go with Dreamhost. Chances are you won't find a host that's worse (although I can't complain much about the $10 a year deal that they have every once in a while). Well, all that is over now, because Beer Planet is now hosted on a dedicated Linux server with a private connection. Hopefully you will see the speedup. So, all in all, don't ever…
Updated: January 27th, 2007
Taken from http://www.thesimpledollar.com.
When people discover a problem with their credit score, they often act rashly, doing things that seem as though they would improve your credit, but actually damage a credit score. Before we get into the ten mistakes to avoid, let’s first look at what makes up one’s credit score, as defined by Fair Isaac:
Although the exact formulas
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Updated: July 15th, 2006
Well, the site is fast again (as fast as it can get on Dreamhost). As many Dreamhost users know, sites hosted with them are often slow to load with a high initial lag. I'm hosting 3 sites with them, and there are speed problems with all 3.
So after looking into it some more, I discovered that the problem is not the servers used (they are actually dual core 2+Ghz…
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