Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
This just angers me. A student used a cell phone to capture video of teacher yelling at student, and then posts the video on his Web site. What’s the school district do? They punish the student, and leave the teacher alone. Asinine? Dang right it is.
The video in question is below…
Please, think about their modest needs in this time of crisis. Just listen to this fund raising advertisement and don’t tell me it doesn’t make you feel sorry for them (linking on my old server, which is still alive for another couple weeks — will mirror here when that site goes down or if it runs too slow).
They hold some ugly grudges. I probably would, too, if my sole purpose in life was to produce or become food or clothing for a human.
Raju Shetty’s attempt to adopt an inventive method to enhance sexual pleasure landed him on the surgeon’s table yesterday.
Inspired by the fad of body piercing, the Pantnagar (Ghatkopar) resident substituted a ring with a metal nut and pushed it around his penis. Problem was, the metal stayed stubbornly stuck to his organ for over two hours.
It gets worse — the metal was too thick, so they couldn’t cut it off, so they had to gradually pull the thing off over two hours. And if the guy would’ve delayed any more getting to the hospital, it would’ve developed gangrene and they probably would’ve just cut the thing off.
If you’re trying to get something special from that special lady of yours, make sure that nobody can hear you.
As many of you may (or may not) know, Conan O’Brien used to write for The Simpson’s (back in their glory days, in my opinion). Now that he’s got his own show, he had some of his former co-workers on the show — Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer and many other characters) and Harry Shearer (voice of Mr. Burns among others) — and it’s amazing to watch voice talent like that in person.
We used to always get a small-ish phone book from other companies, but I always used the big ol’ Dex phone book as it was more complete, had more local info, etc … . The small ones I’d either throw away or put in the trunk of my car in case I needed it.
Now I get my Qwest/Dex/Whatever phone book today, and now they’re bundling a small phone book with it. (I also noticed that they printed an advertisement directly on the bottom side of the book, on to the side of the pages — I’m sure that ad was cheap.) I wondered if this was some sort of supplemental phone book with more info, but no: It’s just another phone book for people to keep around that has less extraneous stuff in it and Bend is just the latest market to get one.
This NES ROM hack has pretty much scarred memories of my childhood when I used to love playing this game.
I got a few hours of sleep last night, but I can’t say the same for the person who helped me migrate all my sites over to the new machine. But 99% of the work has been done so UtterlyBoring.com as well as most of the other sites I manage has been moved to a nice meaty dedicated box in the Savvis datacenter.
Thanks go to Karin at Door County for making this possible. She stayed up all frickin’ night (while I got a few hours of sleep) to make sure things went smoothly. I’ve dealt with Karin several times as she was a support tech with my last two Web hosts. She had an extra box that she was just running a few things on, and hooked me up with it. Karin, I’m eternally grateful for all your help, as I know I couldn’t frickin’ do this alone.
I still have to move my main domain, as well as a Dada install (that should be fun), as well as re-setup all the hacks I had implemented before. But this site should run a pile faster now, even if I get hammered with traffic again (my load was pushing 14+ all day yesterday on the old machine).
Update at 5:00PM: So far so good. Got the mailing list all setup again, got orty.com all transferred over and going, and everything’s good to go. I just need to get some security stuff installed and configured (mod_security, clamav, logwatch, some exim hacks, chkrootkit, etc…) and this thing will be good to go.
The new server (a Fedora Core, Intel P4 2.8/1024MB/2x80GB HD) is a speedy little bugger. The load with a top command hasn’t gotten above .2 all day (while my old site was running at 14 or above for most of the day). I managed to push 11 Gigs of data yesterday on my old server, however, so it still hung in there just fine, considering it was getting hammered (e-mail me if you want details on my previous VPS host — they’re good folks, I just outgrew it). I usually push about 230 megs a day here, tops, and the amount of traffic I did yesterday (9,000 unique visitors, 50,000+ page views, 19,000 Google Ad impressions) is more than I’d usually get in a month.
Again, thanks to Karin (who really needs to update her blog now and again) for hooking me up with this server to play with, and helping me out with my stupid questions along the way. Hopefully this site will load fast for all you folks in the future, and will be able to survive an onslaught of traffic a bit better now.
Meanwhile, regular blogging to return tomorrow — I need to get some sleep tonight (was up far too late last night).
As mentioned earlier, this site is running a bit slow because of a link from a major gaming site (that was later picked up by a pile of gaming forums — welcome to you all!). I’m in the process of moving this site to a meatier server (probably will make the move tonight or tomorrow night). That should speed things up quite a bit, and I’ll post more details about the server and such after everything gets moved properly.