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Chatty Eva

For those who want to see what Eva's been up to lately, here's a little video:

posted by Kyle | 08/15/08| 03:52:05 pm| Home and personal| Leave a comment »


Bite Me Dreamhost

DreamHost Blog » Just Your Average Happy DreamHost Customer

(Early this morning, one of our shared web servers ovaltine started crashing. We quickly narrowed it down to nastialiukin.com. At her website manager?s request, we moved her temporarily to a different shared server with nobody else on it. It also kept crashing!

So, we switched her (static html) site from Apache to lighttpd and immediately the load dropped from 200 to .2 (unfortunately, lighttpd is really only good for static files).. but then the network port started to saturate!

To deal with that, (again at her website manager?s request) we turned off the auto-playing flash mp3 streamer on the front of her site (who wants those anyway), and then things were finally under control!)

So when a famous customer of yours' site has issues you totally go out of your way to fix everything. When a non-famous long time customer of yours' site causes server issues you disable their account and send cryptic messages offering no help. That's super. Don't be fooled, people.

posted by brendoman | 08/15/08| 11:59:07 am| Rants and Raves| 2 comments »


Last Short Friday

Today's the last short Friday of the summer (we get half days but get paid for full ones). I think we all subconsciously were aware of this when we dressed ourselves this morning, because about a third of the office dressed in mourning apparel. One coworker and I both said we had put on two other shirts this morning but decided to go with black. Our boss also brought in donuts to soften the blow, and another coworker brought in hot apple crisp.

At least Black Friday (the first long Friday) next week won't be so bad, because we'll be having our closing ceremonies at lunch on Friday.

posted by Jeri | 08/15/08| 11:03:51 am| work| 4 comments »


Kevin Smith Has Watched The Watchmen

Myspace.com Blogs - NC17 No More, Toronto and Crazy 4 Cult! - Kevin Smith MySpace Blog

I saw "Watchmen." It's fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off.

Remember that feeling of watching "Sin City" on the big screen and being blown away by what a faithful translation of the source material it was, in terms of both content and visuals? Triple that, and you'll come close to watching "Watchmen." Even Alan Moore might be surprised at how close the movie is to the book. March can't come soon enough.

I believe he also saw the new Star Trek. Color me jealous. If you're going to be in the L.A. area on August 22nd you can come hang out with Kevin (and me) at the Crazy 4 Cult 2 art show featuring some awesome cult film inspired artwork. We had a blast at last year's show and this year will be even bigger and better.

posted by brendoman | 08/15/08| 10:26:57 am| Movies, Comics, Kevin Smith| Leave a comment »


WTF of the Day: Red Dawn!!

the Sad Geek Blog - tech tips and tutorials: Russia invades Georgia(US): Dude doesn't see the tanks, should he be worried?

Found on Yahoo Answers:

Even if it was posted as a joke, it's still pretty darn funny.

posted by brendoman | 08/15/08| 09:52:16 am| Funny Stuff, WTF of the Day| Leave a comment »


posted by Kyle | 08/15/08| 05:06:36 am| Video| Leave a comment »


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