Archive for 'Blog Stuff'

Site Functioning Normally

Posted 12 March 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Asides, Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery | No Comments

According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to “IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.” Things are fine now; let’s hope they stay that way.

Site slow today…

Posted 12 March 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery | No Comments

Every page on my site is taking for-flippin’-ever to load. What’s the deal?! Sent support request to Dreamhost… 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked wp-cache and enabled FastCGI, but still no joy. Are all the rants about Dreamhost right?

Thinking Before You Comment

Posted 24 April 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Blog Stuff, Talk | 3 Comments

I know I’m not the first, but a recent experience taught me a valuable lesson:

There is no “undo” button when posting a comment to someone else’s weblog.

Stumbling upon a post offering what I thought was a bad piece of advice, I felt compelled to inflict my personal opinion on the site owner. While in a [...]

Linkto: Rushi’s Weblog Client Review

Posted 18 April 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Asides, Blog Stuff, Geekery, Links, MovableType, WordPress | No Comments

Rushi quickly reviews a couple of weblog clients, or “blog editors”.

Back Up del.icio.us Bookmarks

Posted 11 April 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress | No Comments

Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this:

It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post.

This is a “no-hassle” solution done completely through [...]

Redirecting WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner

Posted 22 March 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress | No Comments

If you want to simplify delivery, management, and analysis of your site’s feeds, FeedBurner is a great solution. This page will give you a quick summary of what FeedBurner is about. One of my favorite features (complete list of features) is SmartFeed™, an option that provides a subscriber-aware version of your feed to an aggregator, [...]

Performancing for Firefox

Posted 05 January 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Blog Stuff, Geekery | No Comments

Cool extension – Performancing for Firefox