Bradezone

Spurred to action by my web host’s recent spate of problems, I have attempted several measures recently to speed up my website. Upgrading from PHP 4.4 to PHP 5.1 and adding FastCGI support seems to have helped. (I am running PHP as CGI instead of an Apache module to facilitate one-click web-based installs of WordPress and the like.) I also made sure my third party software is up to date. I do appreciate Dreamhost’s honesty about and detailed explanation of the hellish debacle they faced during July, but I expect it not to happen again. Methinks a discount on next year’s hosting might be an appropriate conciliatory measure towards their customers as well.

But I still want you to check mine periodically.

I want to give “madd propz” to the dude who figured this out. Because of this we have image links in the top right that will show up as text if one is not using CSS, and without the usual hackneyed method of indenting my text 5000 yards off the side of the screen to “hide” it.

But I suppose this news item will receive less national coverage than the “battle of the gridiron” taking place this evening betwixt the Seahawks and Steelers. I for one am rooting for Seattle, given their somewhat hapless sports history to this point. I had the privilege of Shaun Alexander’s presence on my fantasy football team this season, which finished… in 2nd place. Well, let’s hope he comes up big tonight then, so he won’t have to settle again.

Also, shout out to Sigs for his graduate art show today. Get the inside scoop at his blog. I’ve already signed up for one of the pieces, and it possesses a French theme no less! Hey, not all of us Americans have it out for them… Not all the time, at least.