If The Layout Goes To Default Wordpress…

July 1, 2009

… you’ll know the move has been successful.

Comments || July 1, 2009 || Posted in Site News ||

Moving… To A New Old Host

June 30, 2009

I’ve been using Slicehost for more than a year now (since March 4th, 2008, with a little break in between May to October of that year). All the while, I’ve become a huge huge fan of their service. Why?

Montastic tells me that Slicehost suffered a bit of downtime during my time with them (via a quick Gmail search), but it happened so rarely that I can’t recall ever being frustrated at the service. (How about Dreamhost, you ask? Ahem.)

It’s been quite the experience, trying to admin a VPS at Slicehost. It was a lot of fun and pain trying to set up an Ubuntu server from scratch. I learned quite a bit, and found respect for all the unsung sysadmins out there.

But lately, learning more and more about the art and science of system administration almost feels like premature optimization. That’s not to say that the subject matter is not interesting (or easy, because it’s completely insane how the Internet exists), but I’m going to wait until when the optimization becomes that much more effective.

This feeling is magnified by what I’ve been doing with this slice. The full potential of this $20/mo slice has gone to waste, being used to host only this WordPress install.

The fact is that I bought this slice, thinking that I would be deploying some major webapps. You see, past-JK would have thought that future-JK would be awesomeing all over the place. Current-JK is sad that this is not the case.

But he is hopeful. Uh, back to first-person.

I’m hopeful. I also have a couple non-programming projects I want to start up, and it’d be nicer to have a solution that has a more pay-as-you-go style of billing. I am back to NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Change. Change always brings something new and exciting, doesn’t it?

And this post is how I end the first half of the year of 2009. Kinda not very exciting, but I’m learning to find excitement apart from dates that have merely numerical quirks.

Comments || June 30, 2009 || Posted in HanMeta, Personal and Site News || Tags: , , , .

Sober Understanding

June 24, 2009

I’ve come far, but there’s quite a bit left.

When I started, I didn’t think it would take this long, but I was sorely mistaken. It’s going to take even longer, now that I’ve buckled down again.

Don’t be disheartened, but grow. Grow even the tiniest little bit, and it’ll all work out in the end.

Boys, be ambitious.

  • Boys, Be Ambitious, No Brain – Vol 4.

Everyday is filled with choices. Your choices. Let them speak for who you are, not some silly press release.

Comments || June 24, 2009 || Posted in selfdev || Tags: .

Think What You Can Do With What’s Already Available To You

June 22, 2009

With the tools that you have, think what you can do to sidestep the roadblocks in your life.

I’m realizing that the world is the way it is: I can only hope to steer it a certain direction with my projects. Instead of trying to rebuild every single product or service that I use and try to improve them, I should be milking them for all they’re worth.

Nothing is new. Repeat after me: Nothing is new.

I think too much into the future. Heck, I think too much, period. And this type of forward thinking and risk-taking is great when done in a certain controlled environment. But when it’s a life-or-death situation, in terms of my company, I don’t have such a luxury.

And so starts a new category on the blog called: selfdev. I’m looking to do some category restructuring, as well as a redesign soon. Let this post be just one of the many steps I need to take to become awesome instead.

Comments || June 22, 2009 || Posted in Personal ||

Drive-By Blogging

June 14, 2009

Meeting the few people that I know here in Illinois for the last time, or at least for a couple months. I have a feeling I might be coming back for a music festival, as long as I can find people to meet up with when the time comes in September. Iron & Wine as well as Ra Ra Riot? Pygmalion is hotness.

Tomorrow’s going to be quite the day of packing. Lots left to box and move into my car for the drive back into Ohio.

Comments || June 14, 2009 || Posted in Personal || Tags: , , , .