Jhanvi and I spent the weekend with friends at the 2010 Andersonville Midsommarfest where I got to see Funkadesi live (for the second time). And they were rocking as usual :). I got to get some snaps with the artists and also record some video (apologize for the poor quality).
Funkadesi’s Valroy Dawkins
Radhika Chimata Pavithra Anand
And finally the opening of Makhna ve Makhna 🙂
Your site goes down 🙂
And traffic to the site drops!!
Things have been a bit crazy at work recently, so I didn’t get a chance to fix the site as soon as it went down (due to an error I still haven’t figured out). And as a result, the traffic to the site dropped.
I finally took the chance to move the site to a dedicated server running on the RackSpace Cloud services. Am putting together a post on how I handled this migration and will publish it soon.
The bad news is that I have lost traffic to the site that I have built over a period of time.. the good news is that I am the master of my own house (website) at last :).
For my records
I don’t have a Facebook or twitter account and that surprises a lot of my friends since I am such a geek :). And the reason I keep (kept) giving was that I want to be in control of my destiny. In this case, destiny being content. While Facebook and Twitter provide you with a easy way to connect with friends/relatives/stalkers etc, I believe it gives a lot of leeway on control over the content for the companies running these applications. I have all the means and ways to communicate with my friends and advertise what I need to world. How I do that? That is a blog post that I have been “drafting” for the last couple of months :)..Hope to publish it soon. And looks like the wider audience is finally waking up to it.
Check out this article on ReadWriteWeb regd how the tech leaders are calling for a boycott of Facebook and advocating for an open social networking protocol (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/more_web_industry_leaders_quit_facebook_call_for_o.php).
Another article on the same website, speaks about a study by the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, which shows that Twitter is really not a social networking site, but more of a medium to broadcast your content (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_twitter_isnt_very_social.php). Doesn’t really support the argument I made earlier that Twitter is not going to make it..but it certainly supports the notion that once the hype is gone the influence of twitter as a medium will decrease.
I am sure a lot of people shop on express.com , but I probably get the credits for being the first blogger to post that express.com has not been responding to DNS queries since ~7:00 PM CST (4/26). Looks like Qwest is hosting DNS for Express. The name servers (most probably global load balancers) are not responding to DNS requests.
Here’s what I get, when I queried for www.express.com
I feel for the poor ops team scrambling around to bring up the service :). Another reason, you want diversity in your DNS hosting.
Instructions for configuring the mime type mappings in Jboss. Mime types essentially tells the application processing the content (typically a browser), what the content is. More information here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type).
As I was channel browsing yesterday, I happened to run across an episode of NOW on my local PBS station. It featured a Harvard educated man that decided to run for the mayor of a rundown steel belt town (Braddock, PA). Besides being impressed and humbled by Mr.John Fetterman, I thought he displayed all the characteristics of a true leader (IMHO).
Highly recommend watching the video, if you have the time 🙂
For my records..
It becomes a big deal :).
I kicked off the 2010 running season with the Shamrock shuffle held on March 21st. Jhanvi was going to run it with me, but was not able to due to health restrictions. She is planning on joining me for a couple of half marathons this year :). Hopefully, she won’t beat me as she did last year :).
I finished the 8K (5.1 miles) a couple seconds short of 1 hour :). Official chip time was 0:59:51. Results are published here. Looks like I am going to settle in the 12min/mile pace. That has been my pace for the last couple of races.
Jeevan Kumar, one of my colleagues and friend, came up with this graphical form of what makes a creative genius.. And I thought, it is only fair to share this art and Jeeva’s talent with the world :)..
