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Slicehost - Great Hosting
I don't think I've really mentioned my hosting provider, Slicehost on here before, but they deserve a bit of mention for providing great service. Be warned, the rest of this message might be construed as a shameless promotion.
They provide a Xen based VPS solution. I've been using them for about a year and a half now. I originally moved to them due to the excellent price to RAM/HD/Processor ratio. Since then they've added a host of handy features (not all features listed are new):
- DNS hosting (with a zone editor that doesn't suck)
- AJAX based web console to system
- Cheap, automatic, backups
- Great statistics/monitoring
- An excellent wiki, blog, and articles*
- Constant updates on service issues from their blog or twitter
- I'm told 24/7 problem resolution (but I haven't had any)
- Two data-centers
I've been extremely happy with ...
The Nerd Handbook
(via) The Nerd Handbook, a guide for your significant other. I always find it weird to read something and feel like I'm looking in the mirror. My only question is: why haven't I been reading this blog till now?
Blogging on the iPhone Sucks
So this and the previous posts were typed up on the iPhone while at the airport. The iPhone doesn't take well to the text making the text field scroll, nor does it make for good editing with markdown. There's a broken link I'll be fixing later tonight.
Thanksgiving Projects
While I was in college breaks like thanksgiving and Christmas were time for me to work on personal projects. Now with this upcoming holiday season I'm faced with free time and no active projects.
Oggify has a single bug in the queue but is feature complete. Oggify will be feature update free until some other projects make progress.
I'm working on an abstraction library for mutagen so you can edit all formats of tags with one API. But it won't take too much time to finish.
My eventual goal I writing a good general audio file tagger is blocked on some more design work on the underlying structure. That and design work on the GUI.
My goal for this weekend is to actually have something posted for my tag wrapper, and maybe a nice write-up on Django that I've been thinking of doing for a while.
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