Okay, the scaling stuff is done. (Well as done as much as you ever are done with scaling.)
Sooooo much good stuff in the queue to get to now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character is everything."
Importance of Pinging
We may have introduced a bug that was preventing the proper pings getting to Ping-O-Matic, which in turn made it hard for services like Technorati to keep up with the updates from WordPress.com. This post is testing that we fixed it.
Hint hint
Check out Donncha's WP.com blog. Notice anything different? 🙂
Woo! Another Database
One of our primary databases has been offline for weeks thanks to some hardware problems. Thankfully we've been able to run without it, but the existing hardware was beginning to reach its limits, like driving a car on three wheels. The good news is: it's back. And over the next month we have a lot more hardware coming along spread across the country.
You guys did over a half a million pageviews pageviews yesterday, not counting any admin activity. Whew!
Pandora Sidebar
Andy suggested I check out Pandora and I've been enjoying it quite a bit lately.
They have a RSS feed for things you mark as "favorites" so I've added that to my sidebar here using the nifty new widget stuff.
SxSW Wrap-up
As always, South by Southwest was the real conference highlight of the year. I tell people that if they can only go to one conference in a year, SxSW is the one to go to. It’s hard to match the sheer quantity of amazing people in one place anywhere else in the world. There is definitely a strong San Francisco contingent, but what really makes it fun is the people who come from all over to participate, thanks to the conference being so cheap. Also there is always a nice vibe with the film and music part overlapping a little bit, brings a little more diversity into the mix.
This year was certainly bigger than any other year I’ve been, and I can only imagine it’ll continue to get larger at least as long as our economic boom continues.
Not much blogging
The wifi is awful here, so not much blogging being done.
Creativity Panel
I was just in this panel on creativity and it was fantastic. The sole panelist was a yoga teacher of some sort and had a really interesting perspective on how posture, breathing, stretching, etc can have dramatic effects. It was probably the first (only?) panel I’ve seen that actually got people to get off their laptops. Everyone was up and stretching and yelling at it was great. Good to see more diverse topics at these sorts of things.
At SxSW!
Here at SxSW, it’s looking good. Just caught the tail end of Andy Clarke’s and Andy Budd’s panel. Quite good, amazing slides.
Paris Metro
I loved the signs they had there:
Web and Email Woes
As you may have noticed, photomatt.net has been down along with mullenweg.com, which means that I can’t blog and I’m not getting any email. It’s very rough! There seems to be a hardware problem with the server, so hopefully the people at the DC can get it sorted soon enough and I can get back to falling behind on my email.
In the meantime, if you send me a message it may be a bit before I get it.
