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stats and comments are awesome

Two summers ago, I lost everything. One day in July, the day I began my new job, someone pulled the plug. My web host went under without any notice or word. I was hosed. I had no backup of anything on my web server. It was gone.

Luckily, after a few days of waiting, the host decided to flip on the switch for one week, enough time for us to download everything we were hosting. Talk about wiping the sweat off of my face…

After a quick and fierce search online, I decided to shack up with Dreamhost. It’s been a love/hate relationship since then but mostly I’m satisfied.

I’ve only had two lingering things bothering me since I made the switch. I missed my awesome statistics software and my comments have been kinda screwed up. Well, I’ve mostly fixed those problems and now must optimize and customize what I have fixed to work great. So, please feel free to register and leave comments. It’s very easy and it’s spam free! The best part about my comment integration is the amazing functionality that it allows with my bulletin board. I will hopefully get around to more customization since I have time on my hands that I didn’t before.

These changes are two years in the making. You don’t even know how relieved I am right now.

blackout

Much of Los Angeles “went dark” yesterday during the middle of the afternoon. I have to quote this phrase because, well, the sun was shining brightly. But for much of the afternoon, power was off for nearly a million people. Luckily, and strangely enough, we had no interruption here in Santa Monica. People were affected a few miles east of here. By the time I left work, it was like nothing had happened. I got back to my room and the clock light was flashing.

The biggest pain about this power outage was that my web host provider Dreamhost went down for a few hours. In fact, my e-mail was out all day and didn’t get back up until about 9pm or so. I hate losing access to my e-mail like would frequently happen at my previous webhost. But, according to another DreamHost user, this is the first time something major like this has happened since 1998. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. In fact, Dreamhost stated they had backup generators in place, but their network providers also went down and they were forced to evacuate the building.

You may continue spamming me now.