Just a couple of minor notes:
- Tonight I switched data centers. There may be a small outage
for some because I forgot to lower the TTL on the old DNS entries
before the move: I guess being the, uh, "world's most pre-eminent
domainologist" doesn't mean I'm always on top of such things, at
least not for what now is just a wrapping around a blog.
- I made the move because I'm finally making use of the domain,
and the reason for needing a more powerful platform will become
clear.
- I often do minor edits of published pieces after the fact,
without noting it as an edit. Often I'll read back through the
archives and see typos, wording that I'd like to correct, etc, so I
fix it for future readers. The most common edits see me removing
parenthetical asides that add nothing. The software I wrote to run
this does store every revision, so technically I could provide a
diff'able history and have long considered doing that.
- Speaking of blog software, one solved problems that strangely
causes havoc again and again are dynamic sites that fall over
whenever they get any attention. Over the past while I've had days
with torrents of incoming visitors, and the CPU needle barely ever
spikes to the point of being measureable. It is just inconceivable
that a simple blog dies when it gets on Reddit or the like.
Seriously - caching, figure out how to use it. If you can't get it
into your software itself, stick your site behind an nginx instance
and use its wonderful functionality.
- Every entry that I post is automatically run through tidy. I really consider
it important that mark-up claiming to subscribe to a given standard
actually honors that standard.
- I've withdrawn from the whole NoSQL debate because it got
incredibly boring. My closing note is simply to say that the way
that many are using NoSQL is like discovering the buggy whip at the
beginning of the automotive era.
Incredible times ahead.