Fated Strife

Well today was boring.

Didn’t get to talk to Angel and he didn’t get my message that I had to leave before he got on since he used MSN today instead of POL. Not been talking much anyway, hit a rough spot in our friendship I guess. Hopefully we can get things worked out and remain friends still.

I had to adjust the date and time on the server as it seems time likes to go by a bit too quick on here. I have clockspeed installed and such but just haven’t set it up to actually run as a daemon or such to keep the time updated. I need to find a way to do this with a service script for daemontools.

I got my auction paid for yesterday finally, when I went to deposit the check to pay for it, the ATM was still broke, but at least they were fixing it (I think) while I was there. One of the tellers there heard my cell phone ringing and identified it as Suicide is Painless from M*A*S*H.

I added a few more figures to my collection yesterday, or maybe the day before. They are Clone Trooper Officer (yellow) and Boba Fett. I think the Fett looks pretty good, I’d like to see one with a removable helmet.

I hope my Darth Revan and Darth Malak will arrive soon, it was entered into the USPS system yesterday afternoon, so should be going out tomorrow at the latest.

It’s been getting cold here, for awhile there in October it was up in the low 90-80s. Now it’s around 50-60 or so during the day. Last night I think it got down to the low 20’s. Here is a graph from 11/02-11/09/2007, the temps seem to always be off a few degrees. Currently my thermometer says for outside temp that it’s 34.2F, Forecastfox says 35. Anyway, pretty graph:

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I guess that’s all, I keep losing my train of though, didn’t realize how late it was, but I usually don’t notice when I can’t sleep. Though I feel exhausted and all.

Oh, I found out the latest job addition to the Wings of the Goddess expansion for FFXI..

Scholar

You can find out more here and here.

Also it seems that you be able to finally invite others into your mog house. Nobody to visit mine though I guess, though there is Cory who I’m sure would love to see all the junk taking up my inventory.

There’s an event going on now that is meant to bring in the new expansion. I used to have someone to do these events with, I may still do it to try to get one or both of the reward items. Maybe Cory will want to do that as well. Details on the event here.

Now, time to sleep.. I hope.

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Well I’ve done some stuff to the site/server lately.

First off, I get a 4/5 on built with for “its utilization of web technologies which includes analytics, frameworks, syndication and document formatting“. I’d like to get a 5/5 eventually.

I’ve also installed WordPress Super Cache. This should help the speed issues I’ve had with my site, at least I hope it does. I’ve noticed as well as a few others that the load time has been reduced a bit so hopefully that’ll help keep readers from fleeing my site due to slow load times.

Also thanks to Donncha, I decided to install XCache to go along with eAccelerator to help with my site as well as several others I host on my server. So far it seems to be doing a good job.

Unfortunately, I did run into a problem with XCache, after building with the source and installing (and fixing the paths a bit) the XCache admin page (and XCache WP plugin) complained that it wasn’t loaded. I eventually had to move the Zend config in php.ini to after the XCache config, all seems to be working now though. Hopefully that may help some others who have installed it and are experiencing the same problem.

I’m eventually planning to upgrade to PHP 5, I’m still at 4.4.2 which is doing just fine but a few applications I’ve been wanting to try only seem to be compatible with 5. I’m not really up to the task of upgrading it (Apache is also something that I need to update to 1.3.39 or something newer), but I fear that I may end up just breaking everything. It took a lot of confidence for me to rid myself of the RPM deal a year or two ago and install everything from source, it was worth it though as it provided some learning for me.

Anyway, hopefully things will be a bit faster, less load on the server, and if something ever gets slashdotted or dugg, the site might just hold up.
If you notice a problem, error on a page, page not loading, site loading way slower than it did, etc please leave a comment or use my contact form and let me know.

Also thanks to Donncha and NeoSmart for the great plugins!

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