May 25
2011
The new version of Fedora was released today sporting gnome 3.0 integration (with completely redesigned UI), much improved btrfs support, and the latest versions of much of the other standard linux packages that make this distribution fine. It’s far from my personal favorite (I never really liked RPM/yum myself and many of the system files aren’t where they belong on a normal linux system), but it’s a huge improvement over previous iterations.
May 12
2011
Hello everybody (the whole 1-2 users who actually take a look at my site every once in a blue moon)! I apologize for the recent outage.
Upon upgrading to the new Ubuntu 11.04 distribution, VMware Server (which is the main operating platform for my web and database servers), refused to compile the kernel modules necessary for loading virtual machines, and thus, the web and database servers couldn’t be booted. After about 2 weeks worth of research, I discovered others were having similar problems and there is now a clear solution to this particular problem (located here if anybody is having similar difficulties).
And now we’re back!
With any luck, the next long batch of downtime will be for the conversion of this site to wordpress (with articles intact hopefully)… Stay tuned for additional information on that.
Apr 11
2011
There’s a new version of Ubuntu linux (my personal distribution of choice) just on the horizon!
Mar 21
2011
I have successfully switched ISPs for site hosting and things are *much* more stable now. you should note a pretty large improvement in site responsiveness overall and I will probably be expanding a little here and there again!
Feb 5
2011
The OKCupid mobile app team have completely outdone themselves with a complete rewrite of an app that was already quite good. The redesign includes a much more user-friendly interface that displays all the same information in a much more easily navigated format, especially for users of smaller touch devices like the iPhone, while also improving the interface responsiveness by leaps and bounds. I have seen very few iPhone social apps with this level of polish and I really hope they keep up the good work over there at OKCupid. (read more for details!) Read More >>
